Dozens of people lined up outside a new Chick-fil-A restaurant in Gilroy for its grand opening Thursday morning.
The new location on Chestnut Street, right off Highway 101, opened for breakfast at 6:30 a.m., but customers started showing up hours before, with the earliest arriving at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
To celebrate the grand opening, Chick-fil-A says it is donating $25,000 to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, and 100 local heroes will be honored with free Chick-fil-A entrees for a year.
The restaurant's regular hours will be 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
The new Gilroy location brings the number of Chick-fil-A restaurants in the greater Bay Area to 24, according to the company.
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