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From Ivano Toscani’s point of view, no one makes wings like this restaurant does. As manager of Anchor Bar for the past 20 years, he has good reason to think that. The restaurant is credited with inventing the buffalo chicken wing in 1964. “Today, everyone tries to duplicate it,” he says. “They’re copying the Anchor Bar.” Indeed, the restaurant’s motto is “Home of the original buffalo chicken wings.” The menu item became so popular in Buffalo that in 1977, July 29 was declared Chicken Wing Day.

After nearly 50 years in business in Buffalo, the Anchor Bar is bringing its wings to Canada. For the first time, it is franchising with a new location set to open in downtown Hamilton’s Lloyd Jackson Square. It’s the first time the restaurant is franchising anywhere.

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Anchor Bar is hugely popular across North America — it serves more than a thousand pounds of wings every day to customers, and ships platters of its wings across Canada and the United States.