Executives from Chick-fil-A's logistics subsidiary held a town hall and offered tours of its new distribution center near Columbia, South Carolina, which will serve the chicken chain's growing restaurant base in the Palmetto State.
Dan Marques, senior director of distribution operations for Chick-fil-A Supply, and other company executives gave tours of the 350,000-square-foot distribution center in the Saxe Gotha Industrial Park in West Columbia in Lexington County. Marques was joined by Erinn Rowe, CEO of Harvest Hope Food Bank, and Jeff Brown, general manager of the new Chick-fil-A Supply distribution center.
The new distribution center, an $80 million investment by the company based near Atlanta, is expected to create 165 jobs. In conjunction with the opening, Chick-fil-A made a $25,000 donation to Harvest Hope to support the local nonprofit group's hunger relief efforts.
Chick-fil-A has been expanding in the Carolinas. Last month, it opened a new outlet in Ladson, South Carolina, and built a distribution center in Kannapolis, North Carolina, that opened last year.