Chick-fil-A to Open First ‘Elevated Drive-Thru’ Restaurant

Chick-fil-A is opening its first elevated drive-through restaurant, the company announced Wednesday.

The restaurant, located at 2155 Jodeco Road in McDonough, Georgia, just south of metro Atlanta, will begin serving customers on Thursday, August 22 and is the first restaurant of its kind for the popular fast food chain.

According to the company, the drive-thru-only restaurant features four drive-thru lanes and an elevated kitchen with a “unique meal transport system” described by the company as a “sophisticated conveyor belt” that streamlines food delivery by “quickly moving the meal from the elevated kitchen above to a floor team member below.”

The kitchen is twice the size of a typical Chick-fil-A restaurant, and the conveyor belt can deliver a meal to a team member every six seconds, according to Chick-fil-A. There is no dining room or food service at this restaurant, Chick-fil-A noted, but the four-lane drive-thru has the capacity to handle “two to three times as many vehicles” as a standard Chick-fil-A restaurant drive-thru.

Two ways to get your meal

Chick-fil-A says the restaurant will offer two options for customers to get their meal:

• They can order ahead on the Chick-fil-A app and pick up their order using dedicated Mobile Thru lines
• They can place their order with a team member in the traditional drive-thru lanes