A new Chick-fil-A takeout restaurant is being considered for a location that would serve both Mississauga and Oakville.

A site plan application has been filed with the Town of Oakville to put that restaurant in the plaza located at the southwest corner of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Dundas Street West.

Technically, the site is located in Oakville, but it largely targets shoppers from Mississauga.

The plaza also contains Winners, Sportchek and Staples.

According to limited information submitted with the application from Chick-fil-A, the plan is to “redevelop the existing single-storey fast food restaurant with a single drive-through to a new single-storey fast food restaurant with a double drive-through.”

Currently, the only fast food restaurant at that location is Burger King.

A Chick-fil-A representative said the company has no information on the project to provide at this time, while workers at the Burger King said they have not heard of the plan.

There is no timeline for the restaurant opening, and it needs approval from the Town of Oakville, but if it does appear, it will be Oakville’s first Chick-fil-A.

Mississauga has two Chick-fil-A restaurants, at Square One and Heartland Town Centre, and a location exists in Burlington on Appleby Line.

Tracing its history back to 1946, when founder S. Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, Chick-fil-A has grown into a global enterprise with over 3,000 restaurants. When it arrived in Toronto in 2019, it was greeted by steady line-ups of eager customers anxious to sample the menu. It has since opened 16 other Ontario locations, including two in Mississauga and one in Burlington.

The company has indicated it intends to aggressively expand in Canada.

And when it comes to the menu, it’s all about the chicken.

Unlike other fast-food chains, Chick-fil-A focuses on chicken — particularly sandwiches — although chicken strips and nuggets are also on the menu, along with a few side items.

“That’s what we specialize in, and that’s why we think it is the best,” the late Cathy once said when talking about the concept for his business.

Cathy also staked his claim as the inventor of the chicken sandwich. While some may dispute that, he has been credited for making the chicken sandwich a restaurant staple.

Famously, although operating during traditional restaurant hours, Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays, adhering to Cathy’s fundamentalist Christian traditions.


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