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New Chick-fil-A opening in Lynnwood, traffic expected

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, March 8, 2023

By Kayla J. Dunn

Mark Mulligan / The Herald Ten-year-old Chloe Charles (center) jumps into the middle of a picture being taken by thirteen-year-old Jada Summers of the girls' respective mothers, Renee Charles (left) and Debbie Summers, outside of the new Chick-Fil-A location in Lynnwood Wednesday afternoon. The families showed up early Wednesday morning to be part of the first 100 people in line at the new location. The first one hundred people who camp overnight at the new location are entitled to one Chick-Fil-A combo meal a week for the next year. The Charles and Summers families met at the opening for the Bellevue Chick-Fil-A and were enjoying the family atmosphere. Games throughout the day keep the families occupied. Photo taken 20150506
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Mark Mulligan / The Herald Ten-year-old Chloe Charles (center) jumps into the middle of a picture being taken by thirteen-year-old Jada Summers of the girls' respective mothers, Renee Charles (left) and Debbie Summers, outside of the new Chick-Fil-A location in Lynnwood Wednesday afternoon. The families showed up early Wednesday morning to be part of the first 100 people in line at the new location. The first one hundred people who camp overnight at the new location are entitled to one Chick-Fil-A combo meal a week for the next year. The Charles and Summers families met at the opening for the Bellevue Chick-Fil-A and were enjoying the family atmosphere. Games throughout the day keep the families occupied. Photo taken 20150506
Chloe Charles (center) jumps into the middle of a picture being taken by Jada Summers of the girls’ respective mothers, Renee Charles (left) and Debbie Summers during the grand opening of Chick-Fil-A’s first Lynnwood location on May, 6 2015. (Mark Mulligan / The Herald)

LYNNWOOD — A new Chick-fil-A is set to open Thursday at the corner of Highway 99 and 196th Street SW in Lynnwood, and drivers can expect traffic.

Locally, the opening of a Chick-fil-A has created “significant traffic impacts.” In Marysville, for example, cars queued overnight anticipating the 6:30 a.m. opening of a new restaurant in 2020. Cars formed a long line, and the city scheduled police officers to help guide traffic for three days.

The Lynnwood opening will bring about 115 jobs to the city, according to the franchise’s press release. Tucked into the corner of the Lynnwood Center shopping lot, the new site is just 2 miles west of another Lynnwood Chick-fil-A on 196th Street SW.

Josiah Ober, the franchise owner and operator, grew up in Oregon, but has lived in Lynnwood with his wife since 2020.

“As a Pacific Northwest native, it means the world to me to be given the opportunity to grow the Chick-fil-A brand and share our signature hospitality with Lynnwood,” Ober said in a statement.

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