Chick-fil-A says it will open four new restaurants by the end of this year in Ontario and Alberta, expanding the brand’s footprint to 20 locations in Canada.
Construction on the four new locally owned and operated restaurants is nearing completion, and once opened, will create approximately 400 jobs in total and will offer dine-in, take-out and drive-thru service, said the company in a news release.
The new restaurants opening in Ontario and Alberta are:
- Chick-fil-A Appleby Crossing will begin serving the Burlington community Thursday October 3 and is located at 2331 Appleby Line. Wesley Lyon has been selected as the independent franchised Owner-Operator;
- Chick-fil-A Macleod Trail will begin serving the Calgary community later this year and will be located at 9223 Macleod Trail SW. Robert Bourassa has been selected as the independent franchised Owner-Operator;
- Chick-fil-A Newmarket East will begin serving the Newmarket community later this year and will be located at 1111 Davis Drive. Julia Calandra has been selected as the independent franchised Owner-Operator;
- Chick-fil-A South Edmonton Common will begin serving the Edmonton community later this year and will be located at 2060 99 Street NW. Thomas Messick has been selected as the independent franchised Owner-Operator.
The company said most Chick-fil-A restaurants are owned and operated by a single individual, which means Chick-fil-A’s local Owner-Operators are small business owners, not passive investors, who work in their restaurants side by side with their Team Members each day.
Since 2020, Chick-fil-A said it has donated about C$2 million (US$1.46 million) to Second Harvest to support local hunger-relief organizations. Second Harvest is one of Canada’s largest food rescue organizations and helps reduce the environmental impact of food waste by redistributing surplus edible food from across the supply chain to non-profits throughout the country. In celebration of each new restaurant opening, Chick-fil-A will donate about C$34,000 (US$25,000) to Second Harvest to support local non-profit organizations in the community in the fight against hunger.
“These four new restaurants will also be participating in the Chick-fil-A Shared Table™ program, an initiative that redirects surplus food from participating Chick-fil-A restaurants to local soup kitchens, shelters, food banks and non-profits to help feed those in need,” it said.
“To date, more than 30 million meals have been created using Chick-fil-A Shared Table donations from 2,200 Chick-fil-A restaurants throughout Canada and the U.S.”
Chick-fil-A, Inc. is the third largest quick-service restaurant company in the United States with more than 200,000 staff employed by independent owner-operators in more than 3,000 restaurants across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. In 2023, the company shared plans to expand by 2030 into Europe and Asia.
The family-owned and privately held company was founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy.
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