'Twas the Night(s) Before Christmas - Socastee Singers Performance

We had a great time on Friday night with the Socastee Singers. They are a vocal ensemble from Socastee High School. If you ever get a chance to go out to their Madrigal Performance that they do every year make sure you do not miss it. They came in and performed for two hours for our customers and sang a variety of Christmas carols and other songs. Thanks Socastee Singers for a wonderful night at Chick-fil-A!

'Twas the Night(s) Before Christmas - Spirit Night for Vine and Branches Home Educators

On Thursday night we had a Spirit Night for Vine and Branches Home Educators. Spirit Nights are a great way for organizations to raise funds. We take the 2 hour period from 6 - 8 pm and give 10% of the sales back to the school or organization. It was a great night with Vine and Branches. They're always a ton of fun to have at the store. Check out our calendar at www.cfasurfside.com to keep up to date on all of our Spirit Nights and come out and support them.

'Twas the Night(s) Before Christmas - Live Music with Ben Coy

Last night was a really fun night at Chick-fil-A of Surfside. We had local musician extraordinaire Ben Coy come out and perform acoustic Christmas songs. Ben has a very unique flair in his music that makes him quite a delight to listen to. I don't have any audio clips from the evening but I do have some pictures. Don't forget that tonight we're having a Spirit Night for Vine and Branches Home Educators. 10% of the sales from 6 - 8 PM will be given back to the home school association. So come on out and enjoy some great food and great times! Here are the pictures.

'Twas the Night(s) Before Christmas - Plush Cow Ornaments

Last night was a great night! We had our usual Kid's Night with Kyra's World but we made it even more special by letting the kids make Mini Moo Plush Cow Ornaments. A Plush Cow, a doily, and some pipe cleaners later and the kids were taking home little Angel Cows for their trees. With every purchase of an adult combo the kids also got a free 4 count Kid's Meal. Don't forget to come out tonight and check out Benjamin Coy performing Christmas Songs for us from 5 - 7 PM. You can check him out at www.myspace.com/benjamincoy for some more information and to get a sample of his music. Below are some pictures from Kid's Night last night.

'Twas the Night(s) Before Christmas - Pictures with Santa Cow!

So last night started our first evening of "'Twas the Night(s) Before Christmas". We had an awesome time. We had a good turnout of kids and adults to get their pictures taken with Santa Cow. Here are a few shots from the evening. Remember that tonight is Kid's Night and we'll be making Plush Cow Ornaments for your tree. So come out from 5:30 - 7:30 pm and have a great time!

Best of the Beach 2008

A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make Chick-fil-A the "Best of the Beach 2008" for fast food restaraunts. We are very thankful and proud to have received this distinction. There is no way we could have done it without all of our Raving Fans out there. Thanks again for all your support!

Customer Appreciation Week - Saturday

Saturday was the end of our Customer Appreciation Week. We had a Customer Appreciation Festival from 4 - 7 pm. We had inflatable rides, Kyra's Face Painting, Balloons by Blake, hula hoops, frisbees and lots of loud music. Here are some pictures from the day.
It was a great week at Chick-fil-A of Surfside and we want to thank everyone for coming out. Keep your eyes on the blog for updates of all our events and things that we have happening here at Chick-fil-A of Surfside.

*justin*

Customer Appreciation Week - Friday

Friday was another awesome day for our Customer Appreciation Week. We started off the day with Free Breakfast Friday. We gave away Chicken Biscuits all morning long. Thanks to this we actually had a 17% customer count increase and a 10% sales increase for the day. Lots of people were happy to be enjoying a free biscuit that morning.

After we made it through Free Breakfast Friday we had our final Lemon Squeezing Contest of the week. This one was between Kohl's and Office Depot. This is Robin from Kohl's.
Robin was the only one to show up for the competition. So after a solid week of competition we finally had our first no show. Kohl's won a free nugget tray by default, but Robin's cheerleader Debbie wanted to up the stakes a little bit. I had informed them that the most anyone had squeezed for the week was 4 quarts of juice in 5 minutes. The challenge was then on the table for Robin to try and squeeze 4 quarts or more and Debbie was going to add a Chick-N-Strips Tray as well as a Brownie Tray to their free Nugget Tray. Robin squeezed her heart out and did her best but was unable to achieve the 4 quarts. Debbie was a great sport and went ahead and included the trays for them anyway. Yay!

After the Lemon Squeezing Contest we took somewhat of a break to accomplish some other items on our agenda. We made it back at 4 o'clock for our Luau Party. We had a Tiki Hut with other decorations, hula hoops, limbo and free lemonade. Here are some pictures from the evening.
It was a fun night and we really enjoyed it. Only one more day to go after this.

*justin*

Customer Appreciation Week - Thursday

It was another great day during our Customer Appreciation Week on Thursday. We started off the day by taking some chicken biscuits to Lakewood Campground. We were able to hop on a golf cart with The Cow and ride around the campground handing out biscuits to all the staff. We had a great time.

After going to Lakewood we came back to the store for our Lemon Squeezing Contest. The contest today was between Camping World RV Sales and Outdoor RV and Marine World. Here is a picture of Carl from Outdoor RV and Marine World.

Here is a picture of the mess Carl made.This is Eben from Camping World.He made much less of a mess than Carl did. This was also a very close competition but in the end Eben pulled out a victory for Camping World. Congratulations to Camping World for winning and getting a free nugget tray from us. Here are the guys with their cheerleaders Rodney and Tom. Check out the rabbit ears that Eben is giving Carl. Classic.After the Lemon Squeezing Contest we loaded up the tent, table, box lunches and The Cow and headed to the Town of Surfside. We were feeding all the town employees and saying thanks for all of their hard work. Here is The Cow outside of the Surfside Civic Center.As you can see from these next pictures they were thoroughly enjoying their lunch, and The Cow.After spending a great afternoon with the Town of Surfside we had to get set up for the Gabbie Rae as Hannah Montana Concert and our Parachuting Mini Moo Cow Drop! Gabbie came out and did a fantastic job and really got the crowd going. Here she is singing away.We also got a shot from up above.If you're wondering how we pulled that off here's a picture of Will on the ladder truck that the Horry County Fire Department so graciously brought out for our Parachuting Cow Drop.After the concert Gabbie Rae did a meet and greet for everyone who was here. The Cow decided to get in and get a picture for his scrap book as well.Following the meet and greet we had our first ever Parachuting Mini Moo Cow Drop. It was awesome. We had 100 Mini Moo Plush Cows attached to parachutes and we dropped them from the top of the ladder truck. Here are the cows in flight.There was one silver cow in the midst of all of those flying cows that was painted silver. It was worth free Chick-fil-A for a year. Congratulations to Josefina who caught the cow. Here she is with her mom and the silver cow.This was a great day all around. We headed home after all was said and done to get some rest and get ready for Free Breakfast Friday and our Luau!!! I'll give you the updates tomorrow.

*justin*

Customer Appreciation Week - Wednesday

We had another fun filled day on Wednesday with our Customer Appreciation Week here at Chick-fil-A of Surfside. We started out the day doing a blitz just a few miles down the road from us off of Hwy. 17. We made the rounds to plenty of businesses and handed out free chicken biscuits with The Cow there to assist us. We made some great emotional connections.

See this guy? This is David. David had never even tried Chick-fil-A before we got there. This is literally David taking his first bite of Chick-fil-A. This next picture makes me think that David enjoyed his first bite plus the other bites that came after it.

After the blitz we came back to the store to set up for the Lemon Squeezing Contest for the day. Today we matched up East Coast Honda versus East Coast Volkswagen. This is Randy from East Coast Honda.

This is Nathan from East Coast Volkswagen.

This was definitely our closest competition to date. Congratulations goes out to Randy for barely pulling out a victory. Here they are both proud of the fantastic lemon squeezing they did.

After the Lemon Squeezing Contest we got together 200 sandwiches and set sail for Ocean Lakes Family Campground. We had a great time there. The staff was very pleasant and it was wonderful getting to go around and meet them all and spend time with them. Here is Grace, The Cow, and some of the front office staff taking time for a picture.

We headed over to the Golf Cart sales office and I had to stop and get a picture in this sweet golf cart. Go Heels!The Cow took time to get a picture in a golf cart he had his eye on as well.
We also got some great pictures with more of the staff and some of the guests as well.After a few hours of spending time with the Ocean Lakes crew we had to get back and get ready for Free Banana Split Night. We gave away 170 free banana splits from 5 - 8 pm. Fortunately there weren't any serious brain freezes from any of the Icedream. Here are a couple of pictures from the evening.
After all was said and done we cleaned up and called it a night. We had to get some rest so that we can be ready for the Gabbie Rae as Hannah Montana Concert and the Mini Moo Parachuting Cow Drop that we're doing on Thursday Night. Stay tuned for more details!

*justin*