Zaxby's
Wings · Orem · 97 W Center St
The Orem branch of a Southeastern chicken chain, and the entry in this directory where what we do not know matters more than what we do. Giode ruled on 2026-09-15 that the page should be written rather than withheld, with the uncertainty on the page instead of in a session log.
Where it is
On Center Street in Orem. Orem has a Center Street of its own and so does Provo, which is a routine source of confusion in this valley and the reason our wings guide names the city every time it names this address. The site sits in the commercial stretch rather than in a walkable downtown block.
Orem runs its own address grid from its own origin point, and it does not line up with Provo's — the same number is a different place in each city. Our guide to how Utah addresses actually work covers why.
What we know about it
What the chain is, first, because it is not a local business and readers searching it are usually deciding whether it is worth the drive rather than what to order. Zaxby's is a Southeastern chicken chain built around fried tenders, wings and its sauce range, and it arrived in Utah as part of a westward expansion rather than as a local opening. Its format is counter-order with a dining room, and the draw for people who seek it out is the sauce list, which is the thing the chain is actually known for.
Now the part that matters more. **We cannot confirm this location is trading, and we are not going to tell you it is.** Several independent third-party listings mark the Orem store permanently closed. The chain's own store locator still serves a page for it. Those two things cannot both be current, and a corporate locator is precisely the kind of source this directory was built to distrust, because a national brand's location list is maintained centrally and lags reality in exactly this direction.
What we could not do is settle it. Desk research is exhausted here: there is no primary source that resolves the contradiction, and the honest remaining steps are a phone call or eyes on the door. So this entry does not declare it closed and does not describe it as open.
One thing worth stating because it is the obvious wrong conclusion to draw: **this is not a sign that Zaxby's has left Utah.** The chain was still expanding nationally through 2025 and other Utah locations trade. Whatever is happening on Center Street in Orem reads as a single-location outcome, not a brand exit, and anyone reasoning from one closed door to a statewide withdrawal is reasoning past the evidence.
Our wings guide previously recommended this location with no caveat at all. It now carries a warning, and the correction was made in the prose rather than by quietly deleting the line. If you are making the drive, call first. If you find it open, we would genuinely like to know.
Everything we have written about it
This is every page on Provo.com that names Zaxby's, most substantial first. The directory exists to route you into the writing rather than to replace it.
The durable facts, and the ones we refuse to carry
- Name: Zaxby's
- Address: 97 W Center St, Orem, Utah
- Cuisine: Wings
- Where we read the address: our own page, not a third-party listing
- How we know the city: this site prints the city immediately after the address
We do not publish opening hours, prices, phone numbers or ratings for any venue in this directory. Those are the facts that go stale, and a directory carrying them is wrong within a season while still looking authoritative. For hours, ask the restaurant.