New Chick-fil-A restaurant opens in Tulare. ‘My goal is to serve others with care’
A new Chick-fil-A restaurant opens Thursday in Tulare with a free food giveaway.
TheChick-fil-A , at 2977 Market Drive, is now open from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The restaurant offers dine-in, drive-thru, carry-out, delivery, catering and Mobile Thru. The restaurant created approximately 120 jobs and features a playground.
The restaurant in Tulare is locally owned and operated by Brett McKinnon, who has 19 years of experience with Chick-fil-A, starting his career as a team member and then other roles before becoming a local owner and operator.
“The journey to becoming a Chick-fil-A local owner-0perator has been both humbling and incredibly rewarding,” said McKinnon in a statement. “At this restaurant, my goal is to serve others with care while building meaningful relationships with my team members and the Tulare community.”
To celebrate the restaurant’s arrival in the “co-moo-nity,“ McKinnon invites customers to show off their “spots” at a Moove-In Party as part of Thursday’s opening day festivities to receive a free entrée or kid’s meal inside the restaurant or in the drive-thru throughout the day.
The restaurant is also participating in the Chick-fil-A Shared Table program, which redirects surplus food to local nonprofits. In honor of the new restaurant, Chick-fil-A, Inc., donated $25,000 to the Central California Food Bank, a Feeding America partner, to support local hunger relief efforts.
A Chick-fil-A is under construction in Clovis and will be located at 560 W Shaw Ave. The opening date has yet to be announced. Chick-fil-A has two restaurants in Fresno, two in Bakersfield and two in Manteca.
This story was originally published May 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM.
