Gainesville restaurant offers free chicken salad
In honor of the chain’s eighth anniversary, Gainesville’s Chicken Salad Chick is offering a free scoop of chicken salad today.
Brittany Morgan, a 25-year-old UF sports management graduate student, said she ate chicken salad for the first time at the restaurant’s grand opening in December.
It wasn’t long before Morgan incorporated Chicken Salad Chick into her weekly routine.
“I got my sister going there,” Morgan said. “She’s just as addicted as I am.”
Today, the restaurant joins locations across the country in a customer appreciation day to thank patrons for supporting the chain.
Mark Singletary, the owner of the Gainesville location, said he’s offering a free scoop of the “Classic Carol” chicken salad.
“What we hope is that we will lure them in with our wonderful salad,” Singletary said. “We’re trying to create fans.”
Singletary said the restaurant, situated in the University Towne Center at 3045 SW 34th St., is currently the only Gainesville location.
He plans to open another location within the next year.
“My favorite part is interacting with our customers,” Singletary said. “I like introducing this market to southern traditions and hospitality.”
Lauren Peterson, a 19-year-old UF psychology sophomore, said she enjoys the salads’ varied flavors.
“It’s free chicken salad, and I’m going to go because it’s free food,” Peterson said.
- Sara Marino
Baskin-Robbins drops prices Sunday
From Chocolate Fudge to Cotton Candy, Baskin-Robbins will offer discounts on all its flavors for the first time this year.
Both of Gainesville’s Baskin-Robbins locations will continue a new tradition by offering two-scoop sundaes for $3.31 and one scoop of ice cream for $1.31 Sunday.
Billy Southworth, the manager of the Northwest 13th Street location, said the event started last year on the chain’s 31st anniversary.
The promotion runs year-round on the 31st of each month. Customers can choose from Baskin-Robbins’ 31 flavors, along with toppings for 31 cents. Southworth said his sales increase about 15 percent every 31st day of a month.
“The idea was that there were 31 flavors of ice cream, so everything ends in 31 cents,” Southworth said.
On a normal day, one scoop of ice cream would cost $2.49 and two-scoop sundaes would cost $4.49, Southworth said.
“We are expecting a lot of people now that the students are back in town.” Southworth said.
Along with Southworth’s location, the city’s other Baskin-Robbins is situated at 1412 W. University Ave.
Megan Werbel, a 20-year-old UF psychology sophomore, said her go-to order is a scoop of Mint Chocolate Chip in a sugar cone.
Werbel said she plans on taking advantage of the discounts with her sorority sisters.
“It would be fun to go with my sisters for a nice ice cream pick-me-up,” she said.
- Corey Zimmerman
