Chick-fil-A pushed to Spring
By: Alex Pyles -

According to Tom DeLuca, the Resident District Manager of Chartwells at UMBC, students will be waiting until late January for the Chick-fil-A being constructed in the University Center.

Originally promised to students by mid-October, DeLuca said the Chick-fil-A construction and opening has been delayed due to “setbacks from a base building standpoint.” DeLuca said that HVAC systems in the former Study Space are unacceptable, and crews have discovered significant deterioration in the flooring of the old UC.

“There were just conditions that weren’t apparent to the eye,” DeLuca said.

Before opening Chick-fil-A, Chartwells must ensure that the space is up to building code.

“The building actually used to have food services,” said Don Wilson, Project Manager for Chartwells at UMBC. “But codes change. There are lots of exhaust hoods that just aren’t to code.”

The current estimate is that Chick-fil-A will open Jan. 26, just in time for the Spring semester.

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The long lines at the current venues such as the commons and the Coffee shop in admin especially need to be addressed. There is no reason why a free hour should be spent waiting in line. Don’t you think the prob of the UC would have been addressed a bit sooner.

routson1 - November 11, 2008, 10:08 pm

I was discussing this with a friend of mine, and I was thinking to myself, from a business perspective–”Why wasn’t the projected areas of construction examined before starting all the construction anyway?” It would only make sense to check to see if the places that they were looking into using were kept up to date, and if they weren’t, to try to balance out a way to do the various construction that they’re doing now in addition to that. Or simply, to push back the initial announced date of the Chick-fil-A opening to reduce the hype of the students and faculty (and to avoid disappointments from delay).

C - November 12, 2008, 10:14 am

Do they plan on jacking up the prices at Chick-Fil-A like everywhere else on campus? Or maybe crippling the menu?

I have to pay $5.79 for a 12 inch sub that is more like 9 inches, with bread half as thick as subway, with 5 total choices for kinds of meat.

z - November 13, 2008, 4:37 am

How often do you take a ruler to the sub?

D - November 13, 2008, 11:56 am

The prices will most likely be jacked up. The McDonalds in the UMCP commons are way more then in an actual store, plus they remove the dollar menu so that you are forced to pay for the higher priced food.

Blah - November 13, 2008, 6:27 pm

It seems like they can’t get it right. Sodexo is gone, here comes Chartwells which does not seem to be much better. I wish we could be like the other school’s that have much more variety and quality food.

G - November 16, 2008, 3:40 am

So…how come this story was already addressed by UMBCUnderground several days ago, and you folks at the Retriever are just now covering it? Seems mighty fishy to me. If you’re going to be shameless, acknowledge that you’re following a lead from the UMBC Underground.

wingman - November 18, 2008, 6:44 pm