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

By Tim Darnell (Patch Staff)

Bowie, MD — 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 Bowie and Prince George's 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 Bowie area:

• Vista Gardens Marketplace, 10631 Martin Luther King Jr Hwy, Bowie
• Bowie, 16503 Ballpark Rd, Bowie
• Corridor Market Place, 3366 Corridor Market Place, Laurel
• Laurel, 13600 Baltimore Ave., Ste. 600, Laurel
• Capital Centre, 1040 Shoppers Way, Largo
• University of Maryland-College Park, 1150 S Campus Dining Hall, College Park
• Steeplechase, 9121 Alaking Ct, Capitol Heights
• Johns Hopkins Road, 10975 Johns Hopkins Rd, Laurel
• District Heights, 5502 Silver Hill Rd, District Heights

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.