The Chicken Shop in Santee's Carlton Hills corridor has specialized in Southern-style fried chicken since 2018, operating a drive-through and dining room at 8929 Carlton Hills Boulevard near Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve. The menu spans dark meat, white meat, boneless tenders, party wings, gizzards, and fried liver alongside a seafood program offering catfish, pollock, and cod in three batter options — Southern cornmeal, beer batter, and panko — a protein-forward roster that fuels the functional-training community at F45 Training Santee on Magnolia Avenue. Dry-rub wing sauces rotate through spicy orange, BBQ, sweet chili, and Louisiana-hot formulations, each applied to full party-wing orders sized for group dining. The fried-chicken-and-sides format — mac and cheese, cornbread, coleslaw, mashed potatoes with gravy — carries the American comfort-food tradition also represented by Dukes Old Fashioned Onion Burgers across the I-8 border in La Mesa. The triple-batter system lets each fish or chicken order toggle between Southern cornmeal's coarse crunch, beer batter's airy shell, and panko's glass-crisp finish — three textures from a single fryer line.