​Kris Humphries has spent his post-NBA years building a restaurant business in Minnesota, and his family’s Dave’s Hot Chicken deal now gives the group room for as many as 30 locations across the state.The former power forward and his family first signed with Dave’s Hot Chicken in 2022, starting with a 10-location agreement for the Twin Cities and surrounding counties. Their first Minnesota restaurant opened near Ridgedale Center in Minnetonka in June 2023.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHumphries had already been working in franchising before the hot chicken deal. He invested in Five Guys during his NBA career, later became an early Crisp & Green franchise partner and then added Dave’s Hot Chicken with relatives William, Debra and Alex Humphries.Humphries played his final NBA season in 2017 and announced his retirement in 2019. Since then, his public work has centered on restaurants in Minnesota, far from the reality-TV attention that followed his 72-day marriage to Kim Kardashian.Humphries told FOX 9 that he began looking for places to invest his earnings during the 2008 housing crash. His family chose Five Guys and developed locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBy 2020, CBS Minnesota said the family had 10 Five Guys restaurants. Humphries had also become Crisp & Green’s first franchise partner, with locations in Maple Grove, St. Paul and the University of Minnesota’s Dinkytown neighborhood.In his 2019 Players’ Tribune retirement essay, Humphries said he had opened 10 Five Guys franchises and was preparing to open seven Crisp & Green restaurants across the Midwest.Dave’s Hot Chicken announced in April 2022 that it had signed a franchise agreement with William, Debra, Kris and Alex Humphries for 10 locations in Minnesota. The original deal covered the Twin Cities and surrounding areas, including Carver, Washington, Hennepin and Ramsey counties, along with Minnetonka and North Loop.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe first Minnesota Dave’s Hot Chicken opened in Minnetonka in June 2023, across from Ridgedale Center. The location sits close to Hopkins High School, where Humphries played before attending the University of Minnesota.The family later expanded the agreement. The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported in September 2025 that the Humphries family had increased its Dave’s Hot Chicken deal to 30 locations across Minnesota.After the Minnetonka launch, the Humphries family opened additional Dave’s Hot Chicken restaurants in the Twin Cities area. A Rochester location followed in June 2025, becoming the family’s first Dave’s outside the Twin Cities, according to KTTC.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementRecent social posts from Humphries have also pointed to the Oak Park Heights opening as the family’s eighth Dave’s Hot Chicken location in Minnesota. The restaurant is listed at 5910 Neal Avenue N. in Oak Park Heights.The larger agreement gives