Cicero Chick-fil-A restaurant shoots for early 2018 opening

CICERO — Construction crews are working to build the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Central New York at 7932 Brewerton Road in Cicero.

Chick-fil-A is an Atlanta, Georgia–based restaurant chain that specializes in chicken sandwiches. The company on Aug. 29 broke ground on its upcoming location in Cicero. 

“We feel like we’ve got a terrific site here. We want to thank Cicero for inviting us to be here,” Craig Perry, senior management consultant with Chick-fil-A, said in remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony.

Chick-fil-A corporate representatives joined community leaders at the event that offered details about the new restaurant, plans for future hiring, and an update on the chain’s planned upstate New York expansion.

The Cicero site, located in front of a Home Depot store, is the first of four restaurants the chain expects to open in the region in the next two years. 

Besides the location in Cicero, Chick-fil-A also plans to open upstate restaurants in the Rochester area, Buffalo, and Plattsburgh in 2018 and 2019. 

Chick-fil-A already operates about seven eateries in Manhattan and another four on Long Island, Perry told those gathered at the ceremony.

“We’re very conservative in our growth. We move at a very steady pace,” Perry told CNYBJ in an interview following the ceremony. 

Once the Cicero store opens, Chick-fil-A will eventually add more locations in Central New York and “develop this area out,” Perry added.

Jimmer Szatkowski, a native of Medina, New York in Orleans County, is the local franchisee.

Projected to open in the first quarter of 2018, the new 5,000-square-foot Cicero restaurant will offer indoor and outdoor dining as well as a playground for children. The location will have two drive-thru ordering lanes.

When it opens, Chick-fil-A expects the restaurant will create between 80 and 90 jobs 

Seekonk, Massachusetts–based D.F. Pray General Contractors is the contractor on the project, Perry told CNYBJ.

In addition, the Albany office of Warren, New Jersey–based Bohler Engineering is handling the engineering work on the project.

The company also has a staff of in-house designers to handle that part of the project, Perry said.

Chick-fil-A describes itself as a “family owned and privately held restaurant company founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy.”

The company has more than 2,200 restaurants in 46 states and Washington, D.C., according to its news release. The restaurant chain generated nearly $8 billion in sales in 2016.

CICERO — Construction crews are working to build the first Chick-fil-A restaurant in Central New York at 7932 Brewerton Road in Cicero.

Chick-fil-A is an Atlanta, Georgia–based restaurant chain that specializes in chicken sandwiches. The company on Aug. 29 broke ground on its upcoming location in Cicero. 

“We feel like we’ve got a terrific site here. We want to thank Cicero for inviting us to be here,” Craig Perry, senior management consultant with Chick-fil-A, said in remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony.

Chick-fil-A corporate representatives joined community leaders at the event that offered details about the new restaurant, plans for future hiring, and an update on the chain’s planned upstate New York expansion.

The Cicero site, located in front of a Home Depot store, is the first of four restaurants the chain expects to open in the region in the next two years. 

Besides the location in Cicero, Chick-fil-A also plans to open upstate restaurants in the Rochester area, Buffalo, and Plattsburgh in 2018 and 2019. 

Chick-fil-A already operates about seven eateries in Manhattan and another four on Long Island, Perry told those gathered at the ceremony.

“We’re very conservative in our growth. We move at a very steady pace,” Perry told CNYBJ in an interview following the ceremony. 

Once the Cicero store opens, Chick-fil-A will eventually add more locations in Central New York and “develop this area out,” Perry added.

Jimmer Szatkowski, a native of Medina, New York in Orleans County, is the local franchisee.

Projected to open in the first quarter of 2018, the new 5,000-square-foot Cicero restaurant will offer indoor and outdoor dining as well as a playground for children. The location will have two drive-thru ordering lanes.

When it opens, Chick-fil-A expects the restaurant will create between 80 and 90 jobs 

Seekonk, Massachusetts–based D.F. Pray General Contractors is the contractor on the project, Perry told CNYBJ.

In addition, the Albany office of Warren, New Jersey–based Bohler Engineering is handling the engineering work on the project.

The company also has a staff of in-house designers to handle that part of the project, Perry said.

Chick-fil-A describes itself as a “family owned and privately held restaurant company founded in 1967 by S. Truett Cathy.”

The company has more than 2,200 restaurants in 46 states and Washington, D.C., according to its news release. The restaurant chain generated nearly $8 billion in sales in 2016.