Scratch Culinary customers have been asking for it since spring. The feedback came in through orders, through conversations at kitchen pickup, and through enough direct requests that the answer became obvious: bring back grilled chicken, and do it right.

January 1st gets the credit, but let’s be honest about what January looks like here: it’s 65 degrees, the patio season is just starting, and motivation is genuinely easy to find. September is the one that actually tests you. You have just survived four straight months of 105-plus degree heat, your schedule is about to fill back up with school, work, sports, and everything else that got quietly paused in July, and somehow you are supposed to come out of all of that with your fitness habits intact.