SYCAMORE – Cooking up good chicken, ribs and seafood runs in Cordel Dietzig’s family.

He grew up working at his parents’ restaurant, Chicken Manor, which has been in business in Addison since 1962. Today, he and his family own their own restaurant, the Chick’n Shack, in Sycamore that uses the same time-tested recipes handed down through the family.

Dietzig and his wife, Veronica Dietzig, own the restaurant with Mike Davis. The Dietzigs’ daughter, Caitlynne, 8, lends a hand. They opened in a plaza on West Peace Road in Sycamore on June 12 and were expecting it to be a soft opening day, but it was the opposite.