Eatontown Chick-Fil-A Will Open July 12

EATONTOWN, NJ — The Chick-fil-A Eatontown location will officially open for business this Tuesday, July 12, the franchise announced.

It is located at 42 Rt. 36 right next to the Eatontown Best Buy, and will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday. They will have a drive-through; you can also order online. Cassie Stubbs is the franchise owner.

The Eatontown location is looking to fill 150 full and part-time positions.

To celebrate the opening, Chick-fil-A Eatontown will be surprising 100 local heroes with free Chick-fil-A for a year. However, the store has not yet said who these 100 employees will be.

Additionally, in honor of the new restaurant opening, Chick-fil-A corporate offices will donate $25,000 to Feeding America. The funds will be distributed to food pantries specifically within the greater Eatontown area.

Stubbs has a unique story: She actually started working in a Chik-Fil-A store as a regular employee in 2007 and then entered their Leadership Development Program. She eventually became the operator of Monmouth Mall in 2019.

She lives locally in the Jersey Shore area. Her family’s Chick-fil-A roots run deep; Stubbs’ aunt and uncle, Christine and Ron Trout, also own a franchise, and her mother, Colleen, and sister, Ali, work at other Chick-fil-A restaurants.

Stubbs has a master of arts in Integrated Marketing Communications from St. Bonaventure University, as well as a Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Capella University. S he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Driven Women Jersey Shore.