New York’s overhaul of its busy Thruway stops includes several Chick-fil-A restaurants. But lawmakers appear to be too late to force a change in the chain’s business hours.
Kelli Bogacz had just spent a week camping in the Adirondack Mountains, and as she and her husband negotiated the five-hour drive back home to Buffalo, all they wanted was something to eat.
Halfway through their journey, an oasis appeared: Chittenango Travel Plaza, a newly renovated rest stop on Interstate 90, just east of Syracuse. Yet as they pulled their pickup truck and 23-foot camper into the parking lot, they sensed a problem.
It was a Sunday afternoon last August. The only restaurant inside the rest stop was a Chick-fil-A. And, as anyone halfway familiar with the American fast food landscape knows, Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays.
“So it was useless,” said Ms. Bogacz, 54, a sixth-grade teacher. “Utterly useless.”
The 27 rest stops that line the 570-mile-long New York Thruway are being systematically renovated now as part of a $450 million private investment plan. The project, which kicked off two years ago, has brought freshly gleaming facilities and a host of new businesses, like Shake Shack, Panda Express and, yes, Chick-fil-A.
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