In today’s Daily Debrief, the superintendent of Boston Public schools is helping to fill the teaching shortage by teaching 5th grade today. A doctor explains why swabbing your throat with an at-home COVID test may be more likely to pick up the Omicron variant. Vaccine booster sites run by the state open today. And the first Chick-Fil-A in Boston is now open.
The wait is over for Boston's first Chick-fil-A.
The restaurant's first location within Boston city limits opened on Wednesday at 569 Boylston St. in Copley Square, more than three years after a location in the Back Bay was announced.
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"We look forward to joining the community and to serving all of our guests delicious food in an environment of genuine hospitality," the company announced in a statement.
Seventeen Chick-fil-A locations are now open within Massachusetts.
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Former Boston Mayor Tom Menino had vowed to keep Chick-fil-A out of the city due to the CEO's opposition to same-sex marriage. Following years of protests from LGBTQ groups that have taken issue with the Atlanta-based food chain’s donations to organizations that do not support gay rights, Chick-fil-A announced it would take a different approach to its charitable giving in 2020.
