Chick-fil-A will open a new Edmonton restaurant on Thursday.

Known as Chick-fil-A South Edmonton Common, the outlet will be located at 2060 99th Street N.W., in the South Edmonton Common shopping centre. The new restaurant will become the second Chick-fil-A location in Edmonton.

The opening will mark the fourth and final launch of a new Chick-fil-A restaurant in Canada this year. The U.S.-based chain recently opened new restaurant in Newmarket, Ont., and Calgary.

The new Edmonton restaurant will be owned and operated by franchisee Tom Messick, who was lived most of his life in the Alberta capital. Messick shopped at South Edmonton Common with his family when he was a child.

He also dined at Chick-fil-A restaurants in the U.S. as a child.

Chick-fil-A South Edmonton Common will offer dine-in and drive-thru service from 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and will employ approximately 100-120 full- and part-time employees, a Chick-fil-spokeswoman told Connect Canada CRE.

To celebrate the opening, Chick-fil-A will donate about $34,000 to a non-profit organization through Second Harvest, one of Canada’s largest food-rescue organizations.

The chain will meet its goal of opening four new locations in Canada this year. The new Edmonton outlet will be only the third Canadian outlet situated outside of Ontario.

Chick-fil-A opened its first Alberta location, and first outside of Ontario, at West Edmonton Mall in August. The Atlanta-based chain also opened a new outlet in Burlington, Ont., in early October.

The four openings will increase Chick-fil-A’s Canadian restaurant count to 20. The chain opened its first Canadian location in 2019 in downtown Toronto.

Chick-fil-A licenses about 3,000 independently owned franchises in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

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