Friend told me today, she went there and tried to eat. The wait in line was an hour and a half. The parking lot was full, they had cops directing traffic. And this was in Indiana.
I heard a report on the radio that the franchise in Racine was packed from opening to closing. A caller on local talk radio said that he couldn’t get in at lunch, so he took his family there for supper around 7:30 pm. The line was around the mall and out the door.
Mall security told him that he probably wouldn’t make it into the resturant before Mall closing, but he elected to wait in line anyway. He said everyone in line was jovial and friendly. One person went to a pizza place next door and bought slices of pizza for some of the customers waiting in line.
Chick-fil-a managers came out with free cookies for those waiting in line, but Mall Security wouldn’t let them pass them out. At the end, the people who couldn’t get in the restaurant to eat took up a collection and donated money.
When the 9 pm closing was announced and the doors shut, those still waiting in line applauded and cheered Chick-fil-a. The talk show host was flabbergasted. He said he’d hever heard of such a reaction in all the years he’d tried to get people to attend meetings, etc.
We stopped tonight at 9:30 p.m. to grab a late dinner after a long day of meetings. The parking lot was full, inside the restaurant was full and both drive-thru lanes were jammed. Wonder if they are people who are left over from yesterday.
I was actually having a bad case of Peach Shake withdrawal and needed a “fix”. Young lady at the drive-thru window said they were “so out of everything ice cream”. There were two very large trucks there with more supplies. So happy for them.