Construction begins this month on a new Chick-fil-A restaurant at West Edmonton Mall, with plans to open by late summer 2024. Additional locations on Macleod Trail in Calgary and at South Edmonton Common will begin construction later this spring.
The new Chick-fil-A locations in Calgary and Edmonton will be the first to open outside Ontario since the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Canada began serving guests at Yonge & Bloor in Toronto in 2019.
As part of the expansion in Alberta, the entrepreneurs who will be local Chick-fil-A Owners-Operators are expected to hire approximately 80-120 additional employees at each new location, joining the more than 1,000 already working at 13 existing locations across Ontario.
Since Chick-fil-A Owners-Operators began welcoming guests in Canada in 2019, the communities served by their restaurants have benefited in a variety of ways:
- Every time a Chick-fil-A restaurant opens, $25,000 USD ($33,623 CAD) is donated by Chick-fil-A, Inc. to Second Harvest, Canada’s largest food rescue organization, to support local non-profit organizations in the area to help reduce hunger and food waste. So far, Chick-fil-A has donated over $275,000 USD ($369,853 CAD) to local Canadian organizations in celebration of restaurant openings. That tradition will continue in Alberta.
- Since the beginning of 2020, Chick-fil-A has donated more than $1 million USD ($1.3 million CAD) to support Second Harvest’s food rescue programs that have helped provide over 2.8 million meals worth of surplus food for people in need and supported the national expansion of Second Harvest’s food rescue app to 900 communities across Canada.
- Participating Chick-fil-A restaurants donate surplus food to local shelters, soup kitchens and charities through the Chick-fil-A Shared Table™ program, which has resulted in ingredients for over 80,000 meals being donated by Chick-fil-A restaurants in Canada, with the number growing each day.
- Canadian non-profits like East York Meals on Wheels, Yonge Street Mission, Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada and Living Lakes Canada have collectively received $475,000 USD ($638,837 CAD) from the Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Awards™, annual grants given to organizations that make an impact by Caring for People, Caring for Others through Food, Caring for Our Communities and Caring for Our Planet – falling within Chick-fil-A’s corporate social responsibility pillars, which help guide overall giving efforts.
- Chick-fil-A has awarded nearly $40,000 USD ($53,796 CAD) in scholarships since 2020 to 37 Canadian Team Members to support their goals of pursuing post-secondary education.