Drive-thru-focused Chick-fil-A Makiki opens next week
Another Chick-fil-A location is set to open on Beretania Street in Makiki next Thursday.
This one is billed as the first “drive-thru focused” Chick-fil-A on Oahu, to be operated independently by local franchisee Zane Dydasco, a Kamehameha Schools graduate and Air Force veteran who grew up in Palolo Valley.
The new restaurant will offer a dual-lane, drive-thru experience, according to a Chick-fil-A news release, along with three walk-up windows for pedestrians for carryout orders. Team members will go to customers’ cars to take orders and payments via tablets rather than using a traditional speaker box.
The Makiki location at 1056 S Beretania St. will not provide dine-in services, as announced earlier.
The restaurant known for its chicken sandwiches and waffle potato fries was looking to hire 150 full- and part-time team members and is still hiring.
In celebration of the Makiki opening, the Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, Inc. will donate $25,000 to Hawaii Foodbank, and give its surplus food to local nonprofit Aloha Harvest.
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It will also recognize 100 local health care heroes in Honolulu by providing them with free Chick-fil-A entrees for a year.
The first Chick-fil-A in Hawaii opened at Pu‘unene Shopping Center in Kahului last summer, followed by another one at Ala Moana Center in October. Another is slated for Kapolei.
Chick-fil-A has more than 2,800 restaurants in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada.
Third-party delivery for the Makiki location is not yet available, according to Chick-fil-A, but will be in the near future.
Chick-fil-A Makiki will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday