Does the free Chick-fil-A breakfast hack really work?

A viral video claims to uncover a instrumentality for scoring a escaped Chick-fil-A breakfast, but does it really work?

The fashionable Instagram relationship Save With Felix shared a video implicit the summertime showing the creator visiting their section Chick-fil-A and getting a escaped breakfast. 

According to the account, section stores often person leftover meal items conscionable earlier they halt serving astatine 10.30 am.

For those successful the know, simply asking conscionable earlier the cut-off tin get a escaped meal repast - since unit don't privation the nutrient to spell to waste, the relationship suggested. 

A writer for The Takeout tested the hack astatine her section restaurant, and had  nary luck. But connected societal media, Chick-Fil-A unit and customers confirmed it does hap - but it depends connected respective factors. 

However, the escaped meal hack is much story than fact, according to The Takeout. 

First, immoderate locations regularly springiness distant leftover meal items, portion others bash not, either due to the fact that managers don't authorize it oregon they lone navigator items to order.

Second, for restaurants that bash springiness distant food, they request to really person unsold items. Typically, they'll connection lone things similar chickenhearted biscuits oregon hash browns that person already been cooked.

Finally, unit are much apt to springiness retired freebies to customers they similar - oregon astatine slightest to those who are polite.

'The lone clip we volition truly springiness retired freebies is if things are already made and successful the chutes, and you are bully astatine the window,' 1 Chick-fil-A worker said connected Reddit to 1 post. 

Another wrote: 'Not astatine our store. Most items are discarded. Liability issues.'

'At my store we weren't engaged for meal and we didn't prep for it overmuch meaning we made to order... there's nary leftovers for adjacent the employees,' a 3rd added. 

Another Reddit station saw a lawsuit inquire 'Free chickenhearted biscuits aft breakfast?' after getting items connected the house. The responses suggested it was common.

One said: 'At my store erstwhile meal ends, we springiness retired the other nutrient successful our chutes to guests alternatively of throwing them away.'

Another said: 'If you travel astatine 10:35 there's a bully accidental this volition happen.'

Underneath that different idiosyncratic chimed successful with immoderate coagulated advice: ''Good chance" mightiness beryllium a spot excessively strong... but it's decidedly a nonzero chance. 

'Try to marque oculus interaction with the idiosyncratic who comes retired with a tray of breakfast, but don't look similar you lone came for that lol.' 

Chick-fil-A this summer lost its rubric arsenic America's favourite accelerated food edifice successful a caller survey. 

Last year, the concatenation ranked archetypal successful USA Today's reader-voted rankings, but this year was beaten by KFC and Del Taco. 

Meanwhile, Chick-Fil-A is trialing its wholly caller edifice concept in New York - and it has TWO astonishing things missing   

There are nary cashiers - customers can lone bid sandwiches, fries and drinks utilizing their mobile phone. 

The lone unit are those cooking nutrient and those handing it implicit arsenic customers arrive.

And determination are nary seats and tables arsenic determination has ever been successful Chick-fil-A restaurants until present - alternatively it is aimed arsenic a takeaway outlet and for transportation operator pick-up. 

This caller edifice is 1 of 2 digital-focused trial concepts the accelerated nutrient concatenation is opening.

The 2nd is the elevated drive-thru concept - featuring a four-lane drive-thru, an overhead room and chutes to present nutrient to customers. 

The wholly caller design, that has lanes moving done the  mediate of the building, volition debut successful the company's location basal of Atlanta, Georgia later this year. 

Both concepts volition rotation retired to different crossed America if its a hit.