We love Chick-fillet.
Favorite meal: Original chicken sandwich. Never that grilled sandwich. Never tomato, lettuce, cheese -- though I like those things on hamburgers. No fries, thank you very much. Large tea -- half sweet/half unsweet/with a splash of lemonade.
Favorite breakfast: Original chicken biscuit; the Chicken w/ egg and cheese on a bagel is good too, but you can't eat it in the car. My kids like the Chicken Minis. My vegetarian daughter likes the oatmeal; it comes with dried fruit for sprinkling.
Yes, the chicken soup is delicious. Especially when you're sick. But it isn't particularly filling; you'll be hungry again by dinner; my younger daughter and I like to split a chicken salad sandwich and each get a soup -- just right for a winter lunch.
Yes, the chicken salad sandwich is yummy.
Ditto for the chicken-caesar wrap.
Ditto for the Southwest Chicken salad with spicy dressing.
Yes, they use peanut oil.
Milkshakes, yes, they're good . . . but if you're in the right area to eat at Chick-fillet, you're might also be in Cookout territory. Cookout milkshakes are peerless and less expensive than Chick-fillet. In every other sense, Chick-fillet beats Cookout.
Chick-fillet is a little expensive, but they offer great deals:
All summer, it's Milkshake Mondays. Buy a milkshake, get a free sandwich (breakfast, lunch, or dinner).
Right now, it's free Chick-fillet breakfast biscuits with purchase of a drink on Wednesdays.
And they have a 10-stamp card for breakfast biscuits (free biscuit after 10 stamps).
Buy their calendars ($5 or buy a $20 gift card, get a free calendar) and you'll get a free food product every month. This has "forced" us to try some things we otherwise wouldn't have chosen.
Sign up for their text-specials. About every 2-3 weeks they text out a special: Free fries between 2:00 and 4:00, for example. The high schoolers fill the place up during those deals.
They are community-oriented. They offer some great scholarships for their high school employees. They tend to employ only clean-cut, good students.
They often have family nights: They have a magician, or Santa Cow, mother/son night, or something else. They offer a "see our kitchen" program (free) for scout groups, church groups, etc. during the summer on weekdays. Once a year they do a Kid ID card thing. And on those family nights, it tends to be "buy an adult meal, get a kid's meal for .99". My students who work at Chick-fillet tell me that they rake in the bucks on their special nights.
Don't want the kid's meal toy? As long as it's un-opened, you can trade it in for an ice cream cone.
Finally, the man who started Chick-fillet was a staunch Christian; thus, it's closed on Sundays. He said that if he couldn't make a living working 6 days a week, he just needed to go out of business. He said that in exchange for setting that example, God gave every Christian a mighty taste for his product.
Negative: They serve their drinks in non-eco-friendly styrofoam cups. I'm not a big tree-hugger, but styrofoam is really nasty stuff and I try to avoid it. When I PLAN to go, I bring a wide-mouthed water bottle for my tea . . . but I don't usually plan.
I had the grilled chicken sandwich with a fruit cup and DH had the spicy chicken deluxe with waffle fries.
