Wyoming’s Wing King is expanding his award-winning chicken wing empire to the Lone Star State.
Trent Weitzel, owner of Weitzel's Wings — aka Double Dubs — and reigning four-time defending champion of the National Buffalo Wing Festival in New York, is traveling to Texas for the launch of the newest Double Dub’s food truck.
“This one will be opening in the Fort Worth-Dallas area on May 13,” he told Cowboy State Daily. “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.”
Texas is the fifth state to get a Double Dub’s truck. In addition to his home state of Wyoming, Weitzel has friends managing the growing brand with trucks in Colorado, Wisconsin, and South Carolina.
There’s already a healthy national appetite for Weitzel’s wings. The Texas truck marks the next step in an ambitious plan to spread these wings across the U.S.
“It’s not really a franchise yet,” he said. “We're doing what I've always done and getting it out there to where it will be possible to franchise.”
The Chicken Wing World
In August 2025, Weitzel won Festival Favorite at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York. It was his fourth consecutive time taking the top prize in the wing capital of the world.
In July 2023, Weitzel and his team set two world records in Cheyenne, selling 48,083 wings in 24 hours. That set records for the most wings sold in an eight-hour and 24-hour period.
One of Double Dub’s highest profile fans is Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen. He got hooked during his time at the University of Wyoming and has gone on record saying Weitzel’s wings are “the best on the planet."
This prestige only increased the growing demand for Weitzel’s wings. Now, Weitzel is just trying to meet that appetite.
“We're still trying to make a big name for ourselves in the chicken wing world,” he said. “We want to make it bigger, better, and grow the family more.”
Weitzel said going nationwide has “always been the plan.”
After his recent successes, it’s becoming easier to find markets and partners where Double Dub’s can succeed.
“It’s always been a goal to get further and further out,” he said. “I have a big following on the East Coast from winning those festivals, and 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.”
There are issues that come with expanding any food business. One that Weitzel is now working on 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.”
Weitzel said quality might be “the hardest thing” when it comes to expanding Double Dub’s, but the “biggest thing” for him, personally, is trust.
“Every truck that we have out there right now is basically family,” he said. “They’re managed by people I know personally. It’s not just anybody who can come by a truck. That makes it easy, but we want to get to the point where people can have Double Dub’s all over the country.”
By The Bottle
Trucks aren’t the only way Weitzel is looking to take over the chicken wing world. He’s working with a company in Washington that wants to start bottling 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.”
Ensuring consistent quality for each of the Double Dub’s trucks will naturally help ensure the same consistency for the bottled sauces. Soon, those sauces will be on the shelves of big-box stores nationwide.
In the meantime, Weitzel is excited to help the Texas truck get up and running.
Double Dub’s has earned a national reputation, and could soon be nationally available, but he’ll always be personally invested in the chicken wing business he’s built.
“It’s still my brand and everything,” he said. “We work hard making the same sauces, French fries, and tater tots. We really try to make sure the quality is right on point.”
Wing Kingdom
Double Dub’s won’t be going to Buffalo for this year’s National Buffalo Wing Festival. Someone else will be taking home the Festival Favorite trophy.
Weitzel’s more involved with the continued expansion of Double Dub’s, via sauces and trucks. He’s got the perfect person to help him expand his empire: Scott Lowery, co-founder of Buffalo Wild Wings.
“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. After years of hard work and national achievement, Weitzel is entering a new era of success with confidence.
“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,” he 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.
Andrew Rossi can be reached at arossi@cowboystatedaily.com.
