Chick-fil-A Express to open in Oxford

CHICK-FIL-A EXPRESS

What: Fast-food restaurant specializing in chicken sandwiches is opening a self-serve location with limited hours

When: The Express location is planned to open by the end of November.

Where: 313 College Ave., Oxford

Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays; and 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Closed Sundays

Website: www.cfarestaurant.com/bridgewaterfalls/home

Phone: 513-892-4232

Franchise Owner: Daryl Nelson

Waffle fries and chicken sandwiches will soon be served at a new Chick-fil-A Express location opening in Oxford.

The owner of the fast-food franchise at Bridgewater Falls Lifestyle Shopping Center in Fairfield Twp. is opening a second location in Oxford at 313 College Ave. Plans are to open by the end of November, said owner Daryl Nelson.

Chick-fil-A Express doesn’t have the same full menu and other services as all Chick-fil-A restaurants; the new Oxford restaurant will be self-service, with customers choosing from already prepared sandwiches, fries, fruit cups, children’s menus, salads and wraps, Nelson said.

The new storefront will have dine-in seating and carry-out options, but it won’t have a drive-through or kid’s play area.

When it opens, the Oxford Chick-fil-A will have limited hours of 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays; and 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Chick-fil-A is closed Sundays.

“I want to open it because I know there’s limited menu options not only for the students of Miami University, but the residents of Oxford,” said Nelson, who lives in the Talawanda School District.

“We’re opening with the limited hours to test the market and see how sales go,” he said. “Hours could be expanded as we go.”

Chick-fil-A is opening in space formerly occupied by Magnolia, a women’s clothing store. The opening will 100 percent fill the privately-owned Stewart Square development on College Avenue which includes a Hampton Inn hotel, retail including CVS and apartments above street-level retail space, said Alan Kyger, economic development director of Oxford.

Nelson bought the Fairfield Twp. franchise at 3403 Princeton Rd. in 2013 from the previous owner. Chick-fil-A first opened at the Butler County shopping center in 2010.

Prospective job applicants can get more information online at www.cfarestaurant.com/bridgewaterfalls/home.