Case Study: Dave’s Hot Chicken achieves secure, high‑availability franchise networks and PCI compliance with Fortinet

Fortinet Connects and Secures One of America’s Fastest-Growing Restaurants

Dave’s Hot Chicken, an rapidly expanding fast‑casual chain with more than 130 franchise locations and plans to add hundreds more, faced a critical networking and security challenge: its cloud‑based POS and operations rely entirely on store networks, so outages, PCI DSS exposure, and misuse of public Wi‑Fi could halt sales and harm the brand. With franchisees required to use centrally managed equipment, the company needed a reliable, scalable security and networking solution to support very fast store rollouts.

Dave’s Hot Chicken deployed Fortinet solutions — FortiGate NGFWs, FortiAPs, FortiSwitches, FortiManager and FortiGuard services — to segment POS, manager, vendor and guest networks, enforce tailored policies, block risky content, and strengthen PCI compliance. The result is improved uptime and resilience, reduced reputational and security risk, dependable equipment during supply‑chain disruption, and a platform that supports the company’s rapid growth.

Dave's Hot Chicken

Leon Davoyan

Chief Technology Officer