A busy Chick-fil-A restaurant in Middletown will be torn down and rebuilt with a second drive-thru lane to ease long wait times, writes JD Mullane for the Bucks County Courier Times.
Franchisee Dave Heffernan said the store near Sesame Place will be demolished in early 2026. It is expected to reopen in June of the same year.
“We need more room,” he said.
Heffernan converted a former Krispy Kreme doughnut shop into his restaurant two decades ago. The Chick-fil-A has become so popular that drive-thru wait times can reach 20 minutes.
The demolition and rebuilding of his first shop coincides with the construction of Heffernan’s second restaurant in Middletown, in a space that previously housed a Ruby Tuesday restaurant. That store is expected to be completed by the end of June or the start of July this year.
The current store will remain open until early next year.
“What’s going to happen here is what we call a ‘scrape and rebuild,’” said Heffernan. “We will be knocking this one down, and replacing it with a building which will look the same as the one we’re building (at Ruby Tuesday).”
Read more about Chick-fil-A in the Bucks County Courier Times.
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on BUCKSCO Today in April 2025.
