Dozens Camp Out For Temple Terrace Chick-fil-A Reopening Thursday

The following is a news release from Chick-fil-A: 

After being closed for four months, the former Fowler Avenue restaurant is re-opening as the Temple Terrace Chick-fil-A® restaurant on Nov. 21.

To celebrate the grand re-opening, the Temple Terrace restaurant will host a unique celebration by inviting the local customers to participate in an event that will award free Chick-fil-A for a year to the first 100 adults, who reside in specific zip codes, in line when the doors open on Nov. 21. As a way to thank its customers for their loyalty over the year and patience while the restaurant was rebuilt, the event is open to select guests that live in specific zip codes surrounding the restaurant.  To find out pertinent zip code information, please visit Chick-fil-A First 100 Promotion. 

Originally opened in August 1995, the restaurant has served millions of customers over the past 18 years.  Located at 5302 E. Fowler Ave., the newly constructed restaurant is the first Chick-fil-A restaurant converted from a double drive-thru location only to a stand-alone restaurant. In order to better serve customers, the restaurant will seat more than 100 and feature the convenience of free Wi-Fi.  Additionally, customers will find that the chain’s dual drive-thru ordering point design helps to expand its award-winning drive-thru service.  With a majority of customers at Chick-fil-A stand-alone restaurants choosing drive-thru, the ability for two drivers to simultaneously order should mean quicker service. 

It will be open Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., serving a full breakfast menu until 10:30 a.m. The restaurant is closed on Sundays

The restaurant on East Fowler Avenue is one of five locations across the country that the chain is completely rebuilding in order to continue serving its customers with excellence, a reinvestment of millions of dollars. This year Chick-fil-A will open more restaurants than ever before. The new Temple Terrace Chick-fil-A is one of 114 new restaurants the chain plans to open across the country, creating more than 6,600 new jobs. Chick-fil-A continued to grow in 2012, increasing the number of new restaurants initially planned for the year and reporting record-setting annual sales of more than $4.6 billion.

Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy first began serving his boneless breast-of-chicken sandwich, pressured cooked and served on a buttered bun with two crucial pickles, at the Dwarf Grill which opened in Hapeville, Ga., in 1946. It was the signature menu item when the first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in 1967 and though many other items have joined the menu over the years, it remains the centerpiece of the menu as the chain has grown to more than 1,773 restaurants in 39 states and Washington D.C.

As part of the chain’s ongoing commitment to offer fresh, delicious and nutritious options, the restaurant’s menu will feature three new premium salads – Cobb, Asian and Grilled Market salads -- that are handcrafted onsite using top-quality ingredients. In addition, the chain also recently introduced its new Grilled Chicken Cool Wrap. Earlier this month, for a limited time, the chain brought back its popular Chicken Tortilla Soup made with shredded breast of chicken, three beans and a blend of vegetables and spices and topped with seasoned corn tortilla strips.

With almost 10 years of Chick-fil-A service, Denis Spradlin will continue to operate the Temple Terrace restaurant.  Spradlin says the restaurant’s name change symbolizes moving forward in an effort to better serve the community.

 “I am excited that the chain has recognized all the support we have received from the community in Temple Terrace with a reinvestment to provide a beautiful restaurant to help our team continue providing a remarkable experience for our customers,” said Spradlin.

Chick-fil-A continues to win industry accolades including research firm Technomic’s 2012 Customer Restaurant Brand study which analyzed 52 restaurants. The firm polled 38,000 consumers in the categories they said mattered most – food, cleanliness, service, value, beverage and atmosphere. Chick-fil-A was the only chain to rank in the top five of all six key categories.

Men’s Health “Eat This, Not That” 2013 edition again gave the chain high marks (A-) and named it one of the top two restaurants providing healthier menu options. Chick-fil-A continues to rank high in QSR Magazine’s annual Drive-Thru Performance Study which in 2011 was narrowed to only measure the six best, consistent brands. These “benchmark” brands, joined by one rotating regional chain, are measured in categories ranging from speed of service and order accuracy to customer service and cleanliness. In the 2012 study, which included more than 2,000 visits to restaurants around the country, Chick-fil-A was number one in order accuracy and had the friendliest service. The study also found Chick-fil-A team members displayed a “pleasant demeanor” 94 percent of the time, a full 14 percentage points above the next highest-rated restaurant chain.

For more information on the Temple Terrace Chick-fil-A restaurant visit us at http://www.chick-fil-a.com/fowleravenuedto or on Facebook and Twitter at www.facebook.com/fowleravenueCFA and https://twitter.com/cfaterrace.   .