Chick-fil-A Offers Free Food to Guests in Costume Tuesday, July 12

By Tim Darnell (Patch Staff)

If you dress up as as a cow, to take part in one of its most popular and iconic promotions, Chick-fil-A will reward you for having fun in its annual Cow Appreciation Day from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12.

That means customers have a chance for free food at one of the restaurants' more than 2,000 locations nationwide, including around Anne Arundel County.

Adult customers who dress in any type of cow attire, whether it’s “head-to-hoof” or sporting a cow-spotted accessory, will be rewarded with a free entrée of their choice. Children can receive a free kids meal for dressing in a cow costume.

Here's a list of Chick-fil-A locations in the Annapolis area:

• Westfield Annapolis Mall, 1035 Annapolis Mall, Annapolis
• Edgewater, 3220 Solomons Island Roadd, Edgewater
• Severna Park, 511 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park
• Waugh Chapel, 2615 Brandermill Blvd, Gambrills
• Pasadena Crossroads, 8110 Jumpers Hole Rd, Pasadena
• 17 Marley Station, 7900 Ritchie Hwy Spc E-113, Glen Burnie
• Arundel Mills, 7055 Arundel Mills Circle, Hanover

Based in Atlanta, Chick-fil-A first introduced the Cow campaign in 1995 as a three-dimensional billboard concept depicting a black-and-white cow sitting atop the back of another cow painting the words “Eat Mor Chikin” on the billboard.

Since the first billboard, the “Eat Mor Chikin” Cows have reached millions on television, radio, the internet and the occasional water tower to become one of the nation's most recognizable advertising icons and a member of New York’s Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame.

The company was recently named America's favorite fast food restaurant in an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report.

»Pictured is Molly, one of the real cows behind the “Eat Mor Chikin” campaign, courtesy of Chick-fil-A.