A viral video claims to reveal a trick to score a free Chick-fil-A breakfast, but does it really work?
The popular Instagram account Save With Felix shared a video last summer of the creator visiting his local Chick-fil-A and getting a free breakfast.
According to the story, local stores often have leftover breakfast items just before they stop serving at 10:30 am.
For those in the know, if you ask close to the closing date you can get a free breakfast meal, as staff don’t want the food to go to waste, the account suggested.
A writer for The Takeout tested the hack at her local restaurant, but had no luck. But on social media, Chick-Fil-A employees and customers confirmed that this is indeed happening, but it depends on several factors.
However, the free breakfast hack is more of a myth than a fact. said De Afhaal.
A popular account reported that there is a hack to get a free Chick-fil-A breakfast
First, some locations regularly give away leftover breakfast items, while others don’t, either because managers don’t allow it or they only cook items to order.
Second, restaurants that do give away food must actually have unsold items. Normally they only offer things like chicken biscuits or hash browns that are already cooked.
Finally, staff are more likely to give out freebies to customers they like – or at least to polite customers.
“The only time we really give out freebies is when things are already made and in the chutes, and you’re nice at the window,” a Chick-fil-A employee said in a post on Reddit.
Another wrote: ‘Not in our store. Most items are thrown away. Liability issues.”
“In my store we weren’t doing breakfast and we didn’t prepare much for it, meaning we made it to order… there’s no leftovers even for the employees,” a third added.
In another Reddit post, a customer asked ‘Free chicken biscuits after breakfast?‘ after I got stuff in the house. The responses showed that this was common.
One said: ‘In my shop, once breakfast is over, we give the extra food in our chutes to the guests instead of throwing it away.’
Another said: ‘If you show up at 10.35am there’s a good chance this will happen.’
Below that, another employee offered some sound advice: “Good opportunity” may be a bit of a stretch… but it’s certainly a non-zero opportunity.
“Try to make eye contact with the person coming out with a tray of breakfast, but it doesn’t seem like you’re just there for that lol.”
Chick-fil-A lost its title as America’s favorite fast food restaurant in a recent survey this summer.
Last year the chain ranked first in USA Today’s reader-voted rankings, but this year it was beaten by KFC and Del Taco.
Meanwhile, Chick-Fil-A is testing its all-new restaurant concept in New York – and it’s missing TWO surprising things
An artist’s creation of the walk-up store without cashiers, designed for high foot traffic locations. It opened in New York in March
The new drive-thru design is designed to accommodate the fast-food giant’s growing digital operations and will debut this year at a restaurant in the company’s home base of Atlanta, Georgia.
There are no cashiers; customers can only order sandwiches, fries and drinks via their mobile phone.
The only staff are those who cook the food and those who hand it over when the customers arrive.
And there are no chairs and tables like there always have been in Chick-fil-A restaurants – instead, it is intended as a take-out restaurant and for delivery people to pick up.
This new restaurant is one of two digitally focused test concepts that the fast food chain is opening.
The second is the elevated drive-thru concept, which features a four-lane drive-thru, an upstairs kitchen and slides to deliver food to customers.
The all-new design, which features lanes running through the center of the building, will debut later this year in the company’s home base of Atlanta, Georgia.
Both concepts, if they become a hit, will be rolled out to other countries in America.