First 100 throwback: where it all began
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When a company has been around as long as Chick-fil-A, people tell a lot of stories about it. Some are true – like how Founder Truett Cathy invented the Original Chicken Sandwich – and others are just urban legends. So, what’s fact and what’s fiction? Here are answers to some of the most popular questions people ask about Chick-fil-A.
If you’ve ever driven by a Chick-fil-A Grand Opening, you may have seen a parking lot filled with tents and campers, waiting 24 hours to be one of the “First 100” people to walk through the doors of the new Chick-fil-A restaurant. But did you know some Chick-fil-A locations open their doors by encouraging customers to open their hearts to their communities?
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“If I could describe New York City in one word, it would be ‘home.’” Ellie Kim spoke those words with an unmistakable, resounding passion. Having spent 11 years in Washington, D.C., Kim couldn’t be happier to finally return to the city and open the newest Chick-fil-A restaurant at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue, a stone’s throw from Grand Central Station.
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The corner of Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive is pretty much Main and Main for the civil rights movement in Atlanta. It’s at this intersection that leaders like Joseph E. Boone, Ralph David Abernathy and Andrew Young lived, worked and planned the protests and marches that would shape the country. It’s also the location of the newest Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta.
Off of Cascade Road in southwest Atlanta, a line of tents began popping up on top of a freshly paved parking lot at 5:30 in the morning on April 26. It was a hot and sunny day, one of those that feels like spring forgot about us and summer settled in far too soon.
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Imagine you just moved into a new neighborhood. You’re excited, a little nervous, and you can’t wait to meet the neighbors. That’s exactly how Chick-fil-A franchise owners feel as they anticipate the grand opening of their new restaurants.
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