Danbury”™s first Chick-fil-A restaurant will open Thursday inside Danbury Fair Mall.
The Danbury Fair Mall Chick-fil-A is one of four Connecticut locations the chain is opening in a six-month period. The company foresees 35 new hires for the Danbury expansion. The first Connecticut Chick-fil-A opened Oct. 9 in Brookfield.
Along with the Danbury Fair Mall restaurant, a stand-alone restaurant is opening at 1098 N. Colony Road in Wallingford, also Thursday. Another stand-alone restaurant is slated for Enfield in early 2015.
The new locations are part of what the company terms “a New England expansion bringing the first stand-alone Chick-fil-A restaurants to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut this year.”
The opening comes with a contest in which 100 adults in line on opening morning might win free Chick-fil-A meals for a year.
Chick-fil-A is privately held and based in Georgia. It had sales of more than $5 billion in 2013 and reported its new restaurants in 2014 will total 93 nationally.
