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Port Jefferson Station Chick-fil-A Opens Wednesday

If you want a chance for free Chick-fil-A for a year, you will need to show up Tuesday and be prepared to camp out for 24 hours.

Chick-fil-A opened its first New York restaurant on Saturday in Manhattan and now the southern chicken chain is coming for Long Island.

Chick-fil-A will open in Port Jefferson Station on Wednesday at 5184 Nesconset Highway at the site of a former car dealership just west of Jayne Boulevard.

If you want to take part in Chick-fil-A ’s “First 100” promo in which customers can win a free Chick-fil-A meal every week for a year, you should arrive at the restaurant between 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. Tuesday and be prepared to camp out for 24 hours. You must be a resident of Suffolk County to take part. Find all the details on First 100 here.

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The restaurant will be is open from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday–Saturday. Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays because its founder, Truett Cathy, believed that its workers “should have an opportunity to rest, spend time with family and friends, and worship if they choose to do so.”

Chick-fil-A also has plans to open Long Island locations in Commack, Hicksville and Westbury. Opening dates for those restaurants have not yet been announced.

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The chain’s New York City restaurant at 37th Street and Sixth Avenue drew lines of 200 people when it opened on Saturday. Those customers, the New York Post reports “were heckled by about a dozen assorted vegans and gay and transgender rights activists, who were in turn heckled by a trio of born-again Christians.”

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