Third Chick-fil-A to open in Metairie

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On Thursday, Metairie will get its third Chick-fil-A location as a new restaurant opens on the corner of Airline Hwy. and Severn Ave., at 3501 Airline Dr. The new location joins the one on Veterans Memorial Blvd. and the other at Lakeside Mall.

The Airline Highway & Severn Avenue restaurant joins 25 other Chick-fil-A restaurants in the GNO area. It is the seventh Chick-fil-A in Jefferson Parish. The location will create 130 jobs in Metairie. Chick-fil-A has more than 3,000 restaurants in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada.

The Airline Highway. & Severn Ave. restaurant is open Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. for dine-in, drive-thru, takeout and delivery. The restaurant will feature Mobile Thru, a drive-thru lane for takeout orders placed in advance through the Chick-fil-A app.

Ralph Bartels, born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, will serve as the independent local owner-operator and franchise of the new Metairie restaurant. Bartels was previously the local owner-operator of Chick-fil-A restaurant in Biloxi from 2011 to 2024.

“I joined Chick-fil-A as a 20-year-old student working in the kitchen breading chicken and quickly fell in love with the company’s purpose and vision to be the most caring company around. I took the plunge and asked the local owner-operator of that restaurant if I could shadow him, and that was the best opportunity I ever took for myself,” Bartels said. “I walked through the door in 2004 for my first day as a team member and now, twenty years later, I have the honor and privilege of not only being a positive light in the community, but also mentoring a new class of team members.”

In celebration of the opening, Chick-fil-A, Inc. $25,000 to Feeding America’s Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana. Since 2020, Chick-fil-A has donated $225,000 to Feeding America partners in New Orleans. Chick-fil-A also has a Shared Table program, which diverts excess food from its restaurants to local soup kitchens, shelters, food banks and nonprofits. Through this program, Chick-fil-A donated 307,444 meals to the New Orleans market. In addition, Chick-fil-A Airline Hwy & Severn Ave. Provided 100 local heroes with free Chick-fil-A entrées for a year.