Chick-fil-A’s newest restaurant will begin serving the Surprise community Thursday, Sept. 21.

Chick-fil-A, Inc., has selected Drew Polanycia as the independent franchised owner/operator of Chick-fil-A at 16525 W. Waddell Road.

The location  will be open for drive-thru and outdoor dining 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.

As a drive-thru focused restaurant, Chick-fil-A 303 & Waddell will not provide indoor dine-in services. Alternatively, there will be an outdoor patio with 28 seats.

Guests of Chick-fil-A 303 & Waddell can also place an order for pickup or delivery on the Chick-fil-A app or online. Visit chick-fil-a.com.

Polanycia will be responsible for all day-to-day activities of the business, including employing approximately 100 full- and part-time team members, serving guests and cultivating relationships with local organizations and businesses.

Having previously lived in Goodyear, Polanycia, along with his wife and four children, recently returned to the Valley to plant roots in Surprise.

In celebration of the opening, Chick-fil-A, Inc., has donated $25,000 to Feeding America to support local hunger relief efforts of St. Mary’s Food Bank, a certified member of Feeding America, in honor of the new restaurant and to aid in the fight against hunger.

In addition, Chick-fil-A 303 & Waddell is recognizing 100 local heroes making an impact in the Surprise area by providing them with free Chick-fil-A entrées for a year.

Polanycia’s restaurant will participate in the Chick-fil-A Shared Table program, an initiative that redirects surplus food from the restaurant to local soup kitchens, shelters, food banks and nonprofits in need.

To date, more than 20 million meals have been served nationwide from Chick-fil-A Shared Table donations and Arizona Owner/Operators have created over 448,000 meals from donations, with the number continuing to grow.