Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack

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Last Appearance

"Everybody Hates Hugo"

"Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"

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Hurley, Johnny, and Randy all worked there.

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Fast food restaurant

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DHARMA Initiative Stations
The Arrow • The Staff • The Swan
The Flame • The Pearl • The Orchid
The Hydra • The Tempest
The Looking Glass

Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack is a fast food franchise modeled in the style of KFC and Popeyes Chicken. Hurley was an employee—and later the owner—of a Mr. Cluck's restaurant.

1 Background
2 Gallery
3 Brief appearances
4 The Lost Experience
5 Bad Twin
6 Trivia
7 See also

Background

Hurley worked at Mr. Cluck's until his boss, Randy Nations, accused him of eating an 8 piece dark meat combo. His boss stated that the company was not made of money, and that if Hurley was made of money, maybe he didn't want to work there. Hurley, having just found out that he won the lottery, quit the job. One of Hurley's co-workers was his best friend, Johnny, who also quit when Hurley quit. The two went joy-riding that night and spelled out the words "CLUCK YOU" on Randy's lawn in garden gnomes.

Hurley and Randy's roles were reversed after Hurley purchased Mr. Cluck's with some of his lottery winnings. After Hurley decided to re-open Mr. Cluck's with a new format, Tricia Tanaka, a news reporter from the Action 8 News, came and covered the story. During the recording, Hurley told her about his bad luck, revealing that Johnny ran away with Hurley's girlfriend after he learned about Hurley's winning. Tricia, who complained that his comments didn't fit the "puff piece" they were filming, stopped the interview and went inside to "shoot some B-roll". Suddenly, a meteorite hit the restaurant, killing Tanaka and her cameraman. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")

The restaurant Hurley worked at and later bought was located in the town of Diamond Bar, California. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")

Gallery

Randy shows what he believes is incriminating evidence. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")

Hurley and Johnny write "Cluck You" in garden gnomes on their former boss's lawn. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")

The meteorite hits Mr. Cluck's. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")

Johnny, in his uniform inside Mr. Cluck's, contemplates the menu's similarities to that of Popeyes Chicken. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")

Brief appearances

The real Henry Gale's balloon was sponsored by Mr. Cluck's and a sticker can be seen on the side of the basket.
Was one of the advertisements on the soccer field in the TV game Desmond was watching. image ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")

The Lost Experience

In the 7/10 DJ Dan podcast, the first caller is named Brad from Michiana (southwest Michigan/northwest Indiana),who claims to have seen Alvar Hanso at a Mr. Clucks restaurant, eating a family bucket all by himself.
- DJ Dan asks if he was eating chicken breasts or legs and thighs. Brad answers legs and thighs, and is shutdown, saying "billionaires do not eat legs and thighs!"

Bad Twin

Paul Artisan is a metafictional character who appears in Bad Twin, a novel written by Flight 815 passenger Gary Troup. Paul eats at Mr. Cluck's on his travels to California.

Trivia

The destruction of Mr. Cluck's by a meteor was first (briefly) mentioned by Hurley to Jack in "Man of Science, Man of Faith".
The filming location was the Iwilei Popeyes Chicken in Honolulu.[1]
According to Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Blank, the shot of the meteorite hitting the restaurant was "the single biggest, most expensive shot the show has ever done".