Chick Fil A ID

With the recent downturn of the economy, my step-father Kevin has been out of his engineering job for some time now. He has fortunately been able to take a temporary part-time job as a building cleanup manager (fancy term for janitor) at a local business, and has also been working on various projects with old coworkers and friends.

We have been considering the opportunity to expand into different managment or franchise opportunities for restaurants for a while now, since Kevin has had experience working at Sizzler’s as a manager. We considered Taco Bell, but that franchise for the Treasure Valley (and maybe beyond?) has been well taken, hence why the Pavilion was renamed to the Taco Bell Arena!

The process for purchasing a Chick-Fil-A franchise is generally explained on this eHow article, so I’ll leave the details to that website, which explains it pretty well. I don’t want to be too specific on how far we are in the process, mainly because I’ve been too busy to even ask or keep track so I might be making premature or inaccurate guesses.

According to this article, the window of actually getting a shot at a franchise is pretty slim, with only 75 to 80 of the 10,000 applicants being selected each year. Considering there is no Chick-Fil-A here in the Treasure Valley (or in all of Idaho for that matter), we won’t have to worry about coordinating with other franchises. Besides, that’s all the more reason to bring one here!

But here’s the scoop: Kevin’s plan somehow made it thru this slim window! He already has the plan in place and it’s being executed. If all things continue to go well, we the people of the Treasure Valley will sure hope to see a new Chick-Fil-A in Boise soon!

I’ll keep you folks updated. The only sad deal about this, is that I will be gone on my mission, and will probably miss the grand opening. (and I bet if I wasn’t leaving, I would be a bit more on-board with this project and have more details :P )

But dang! This is exciting news! I’m happy! :D

THIS JUST IN FROM THE CHOWDERBLOG NEWSROOM:

APRIL FOOLS. :D