Chick-fil-A free breakfast: Still time to get yours
Chick-fil-A is running an intriguing promotion this week: Make a reservation online and get a free breakfast entr茅e. There are up to nine entr茅es available, depending on the particular restaurant: from its classic chicken biscuit to Chick-n-Minis (think chicken nuggets) to the sausage breakfast burrito.
You not only book a restaurant and date, you book a time slot as well from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. to check on what's available in your area.
The promotion launched a week ago Monday, but there are still reservations to be had. Indeed, depending on the city, there are lots of openings available. It鈥檚 one way to gauge how popular the mostly mall-based chain is in the nation鈥檚 10 most populous metropolitan areas.
In America鈥檚 biggest metro, New York, the promotion has scarcely had an impact. That鈥檚 not surprising. The 39-state, 1,565-plus restaurant chain doesn鈥檛 have a restaurant in the Big Apple. The closest restaurants are in New Jersey and there are only two of them. Even there, the appetite for the Chick-fil-A chicken breakfast burrito seems limited. As of late Tuesday afternoon, there were still an average 1,853 reservations available.
Contrast that with No. 9 Atlanta, Chick-fil-A鈥檚 hometown. The chain鈥檚 website displays 10 restaurants (as it does for most major metro areas). Six of those Atlanta area restaurants have no remaining reservations available. The average for all 10 locations: 515 reservations 鈥� the lowest average of any of the 10 largest metro areas.
Which other big metro has a hankering for spicy chicken biscuits; chicken, egg, and cheese bagels; or the chain鈥檚 new multigrain oatmeal breakfast?
It鈥檚 not a southern city, it鈥檚 America鈥檚 No. 2 metro area, Los Angeles. The average reservations left among the 10 restaurants listed on its website is 956.
Not far behind is the No. 4 metro, Dallas: an average 979 reservations remaining at its 10 area Chick-fil-As, followed by No. 6 Houston (1,041), No. 7 Washington, D.C. (1,124), and No. 8 Miami (1,233).
So which large metros aren鈥檛 pouncing on the promotion? No. 3 Chicago, which has only three restaurants (1,608 reservations), and No. 5 Philadelphia, home of the Philly cheese steak (1,803).
Then there鈥檚 No. 10 Boston, whose residents may have never heard of Chick-fil-A. Punch in the city and the website apologizes: 鈥淪orry, but there are no Chick-fil-A庐 restaurants within 100 miles of your search.鈥�
