After celebrating Nicholas’ birthday at Tupelo Honey in the Village District, we ducked through the drive-through at the Chick Fil-A just down the way to redeem our free bird courtesy of another Carolina Hurricanes win!
This location is one of the more unusual designs I’ve ever seen.
The building itself looks normal enough but it’s the drive through queue that has this weird look like the building was previously a bank.
Here we go!
- 2031 – Three mobile orders placed at once in the car park across from Tupelo Honey.
- 2033 – The drive through is only a couple of blocks away and takes a bit of getting to as it’s behind the building itself.
- 2034 – Not much of a queue and the order taker is already upon us practically as we’re pulling into what would be the inboard lane closest to the building. And she starts off with “hey” and then starts interrogating us as to the names on the order before I can get her to fix that greeting. And that’s when the excitement begins because she can find the other two orders (for Ms Pat and Katie) easily enough but has a hard time locating mine. What complicates this is that the orders only show up by first name and Katie’s got into the system slightly before mine did. The girl ultimately ends up sorting it out and is nice enough about it.
- 2035 – Katie recognises one of the girls working the drive through queue delivering the goods to the vehicles as someone she knows from Enloe HS. This will come to haunt her soon… 🙂
- 2036 – We’re already at the door and it takes them a few minutes to grab all three of our orders to deliver at the same time but they manage to pull off that amazing feat…eventually.
- 2039 – All orders are aboard and we’re ready to go and we happen to notice that Katie’s classmate is walking in front of us and through the door. As I’m giving the Traverse’s engine the beans, I couldn’t help but yell out “SKO EAGS!!!” as loudly as I can which gets the girl to turn round and Katie to scrunch down in her seat wondering why in the hell she’s admitted to being related to us!
Six minutes from queue arrival to departure but given the time of night and the location not being particularly accessible, I don’t know if this is a truly representative time.
So how did they do?
- Initial greeting: order taker throws an unfortunate “hey” at the beginning of the greeting but she was really nice and so were the kids delivering at the door so owing to this being an abbreviated Chick Fil-Audit, I’m only going to dock one-quarter of a point.
- Order correctness: spot on for the full point.
- Waffle fries: didn’t order fries so no score this time.
- Sandwich: I didn’t get to look at the sandwich as I gave it to Nicholas for his lunch the next day so I can’t really score it. I didn’t get any complaints about it but that’s not the same as personal knowledge! 🙂
Village District gets on the board with 1.75 of 2 stars and generally a satisfactory experience except for that one word I just so love! 🙂