Wyoming’s Chicken Wing King Expanding to Texas, Now Has Locations in Five States

Trent Weitzel, owner of Weitzel’s Wings—aka Double Dub’s—and reigning four-time defending champion of the National Buffalo Wing Festival in New York, is taking his award-winning chicken wing empire to the Lone Star State. The newest Double Dub’s food truck will open in the Fort Worth-Dallas area on May 13.

“My girlfriend and I are heading out there to train the people, talk with the managers, and make sure everything is the same as it is on all my trucks,” Weitzel told Cowboy State Daily. Texas becomes the fifth state to host a Double Dub’s truck, joining Wyoming, Colorado, Wisconsin, and South Carolina.

In August 2025, Weitzel won Festival Favorite at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York—his fourth consecutive time taking the top prize in the wing capital of the world. In July 2023, his team set two world records in Cheyenne, selling 48,083 wings in 24 hours, setting records for both eight-hour and 24-hour periods. One of Double Dub’s highest-profile fans is Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, who got hooked during his time at the University of Wyoming and has called Weitzel’s wings “the best on the planet.”

Weitzel said going nationwide has “always been the plan.” After his recent successes, it has become easier to find markets and partners. “I have a big following on the East Coast from winning those festivals,” he said. “We’re out on the road, traveling back and forth between Buffalo and California, testing markets in different places to see how big it can become.”

The biggest challenge in expanding, Weitzel said, is ensuring consistent quality. “You can buy my salt blends and rubs in a store,” he said. “We have to figure out ways to create those with all the same ingredients that I’m using, whether it’s in Laramie or Seattle.” He added that trust is paramount: “Every truck that we have out there right now is basically family. They’re managed by people I know personally.”

Trucks are not the only way Weitzel plans to take over the chicken wing world. He is working with a Washington-based company to bottle his sauces. “If you can start bottling stuff, everything gets dialed in,” he said. “That’s the easiest way to franchise Double Dub’s across the country.” Soon, those sauces could appear on the shelves of big-box stores nationwide.

Weitzel will not compete in this year’s National Buffalo Wing Festival, as he is focused on expansion. He has enlisted Scott Lowery, co-founder of Buffalo Wild Wings, to help grow the brand. “He’s an amazing guy, and he loves what I do,” Weitzel said.

Double Dub’s started as a Wyoming wing business with big ambitions. “The people in Buffalo were kind of jealous of the people from Wyoming, just because they get to have (Double Dub’s) all the time,” Weitzel said. “We just want to try to get Double Dub’s to where all of our fans and followers can have it, wherever they are.”