Chick-fil-A, Inc. is the third largest quick-service restaurant company in the United States. Chick-fil-A owner-operators live and work in the communities their restaurants serve, each supporting local efforts to address hunger, education, and making a positive impact. The family-owned and privately held company was founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy.

In September, Chick-fil-A announced that its Chick-fil-A Shared Table food donation program had provided over 30 million meals to local communities in need across the United States and Canada, while also helping the company surpass its 2025 corporate social responsibility goal to divert 25 million pounds of food waste from landfills one year ahead of schedule. This significant achievement underscores the company’s commitment to fighting hunger and food insecurity while also demonstrating environmental stewardship, officials say.

The nonprofit Feeding America estimates that 44 million Americans, including 13 million children, are food insecure and lacking access to sufficient food or food of adequate quality to meet one’s basic needs. Chick-fil-A Shared Table empowers local Chick-fil-A Owner-Operators to address this issue through donating surplus food from their restaurants to local community partners to help people facing hunger. Chick-fil-A works with Food Donation Connection and Second Harvest to connect local Owner-Operators with these organizations, and more than 2,200 restaurants participate in the program.

Since 2012, shelters, meal programs, and other organizations have transformed donated surplus food items such as chicken, fruit, biscuits, salads into meals for those affected by food insecurity. Repurposing extra food that would otherwise go to waste helps Chick-fil-A reduce its environmental footprint while making a meaningful impact in addressing hunger and food insecurity within local communities.

In April, a new Chick-fil-A restaurant opened at Hacienda. Located at 4501 Hopyard Road, this second Chick-fil-A restaurant in Pleasanton inside the Crossroads Center at Hopyard Road and Inglewood Drive is open for dine-in and carry-out from 6:30 am to 10 pm Monday through Saturday. In celebration of the new Hacienda restaurant opening, Chick-fil-A, Inc. donated $25,000 to Feeding America. The funds were distributed to partners in the greater Bay Area market to aid in the fight against hunger.

“When I started my career with Chick-fil-A nearly 25 years ago, I was drawn to the culture built around caring for others and bringing people together through high-quality, delicious food,” says Aaron Clifford, the independent franchised local owner-operator of the new Chick-fil-A at Hopyard Road and Inglewood Drive as well as the Chick-fil-A at Hopyard Road and Interstate 580. “It was my dream as a teenager to open a Chick-fil-A in the Bay Area, and I was fortunate to do exactly that.”

The restaurant at Hopyard Road and Inglewood Drive joined more than 22 other Chick-fil-A restaurants serving the wider Bay Area market. The restaurant brought approximately 35 new full- and part-time jobs to the area, according to officials. Across Chick-fil-A as a whole, more than 200,000 Team Members are employed by independent owner-operators in more than 3,000 restaurants across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. In 2023, the company announced plans to expand into Europe and Asia by 2030.

For more information about Chick-fil-A, Inc., please visit www.chick-fil-a.com/locations/ca/hopyard-road-inglewood-in-line or call (925) 400-9494.