Sixth Chick-fil-A Opens on Sixth
by January 14, 2008 12:00 am 568 views
The sixth Chick-fil-A in Northwest Arkansas opened Jan. 10 on Sixth Street and Razorback Road in Fayetteville.
The company continued its usual grand opening festivities by giving away free one-year supplies of Chick-fil-A to the first 100 people in line at the opening.
It is the fourth in Fayetteville and the second stand-alone restaurant, joining the University of Arkansas student union, the Northwest Arkansas Mall and the Northwest Village location across College Avenue from the mall.
Chick-fil-A paid $1.33 million on May 1, 2007, for the 1.2-acre lot formerly home to a Spot-Not carwash. That may sound pricey, but if Chick-fil-A were open seven days a week, it would likely only trail Olive Garden for the top spot in Fayetteville restaurant revenue.
During 2006, the Northwest Village location did $3.11 million to rank fourth according to Fayetteville sales tax records behind Olive Garden ($4.26 million), Golden Corral ($3.56 million) and Red Lobster ($3.47 million).
Noodles Italian Kitchen and Bizy’s Express Café pay HMR taxes jointly for a total of $3.2 million.
Paige Frost has been tapped to operate the new Chick-fil-A after running the mall location, which set a single-day sales record on Black Friday in November.