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COURIER LIFE, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
The chicken has landed!
Southern fried chicken
chain Chick-fil-A celebrated the
grand opening of its inaugural
Kings County location in Prospect
Heights on Thursday.
Brooklynites hankering for
the Georgia-based poultry purveyor’s
golden-fried fowl endured
long lines that stretched
out the door and down Flatbush
Avenue from the eatery’s
newly renovated storefront between
Pacific Street and Fifth
Avenue, where one fan said the
wait to get inside was nothing
compared to the wait for Chickfil
A’s Brooklyn debut.
“It’s about time they had
one around here,” said Crown
Heights resident Jared Foyer.
“I’m very excited.”
The chicken chain’s arrival
across the street from Barclay’s
Center sets the stage for a
food-fight with next door neighbor
Shake Shack — which sat
mostly empty on Thursday as
Chick-fil-A staffers struggled to
fry up enough chicken to satisfy
the overwhelming demand.
But the owner of the new
Chick-fil-A location didn’t want
to boast, saying he only hoped
to be a good neighbor.
“I’m so excited to open our
doors to this community and to
offer our guests an environment
where they can enjoy great food
and comfort with friends and
family,” said Brandon Hurst.
Hurst’s neighborly talk belies
the cut-throat recruiting
tactics the eatery employed in
the weeks prior to Thursday’s
opening, when a Chick-fil-A operative
allegedly tried to poach
staff from a nearby juice bar —
much to its owner’s chagrin.
Hurst denied any involvement
in that incident and
blamed the incident on a rogue
corporate employee.
While the restaurant’s new
workers may or may not have
juicing experience, the eatery
expects to employ approximately
120 staffers to run the
chicken joint everyday except
Sunday — when all Chick-fil-A
locations are closed to conform
with the Southern Baptist
values of its now-deceased
founder.
Those religious roots have
landed the chain at the center
of multiple controversies, including
forking over big bucks
to fund Christian organizations
that discriminate against the
LGBTQ community, according
to a Think Progress report .
But Hurst said everyone
is welcome to enjoy his tasty
fried chicken, saying politics in
Georgia won’t affect his business
here in Brooklyn.
“If you can love yourself,
that’s all we care about here,”
he said.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Locals lined up to be among the fi srt to dine at Chick-fi l-A
during its Sept. 12 grand opening. Photo by Aidan Graham
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