Stockton's Second Chick-fil-A Opens Thursday, Bringing 85 Jobs to Trinity Parkway

Stockton's second Chick-fil-A restaurant swings open its doors Thursday at 6:30 a.m., bringing an estimated 85 new jobs to the Trinity Parkway commercial corridor and marking local owner-operator April Farage's expansion into a second location after 25 years calling Stockton home. The new restaurant sits at 10505 Trinity Parkway, near Scott Creek, and will offer dine-in, drive-thru, third-party delivery, and mobile-order pickup for the surrounding North Stockton community.

Farage, who became the local owner-operator of Chick-fil-A March Lane at I-5 back in 2019, was selected by Chick-fil-A, Inc. to run the new Trinity Parkway and Scott Creek location as well, according to WhatNow. She has focused on developing leaders and creating growth opportunities for team members at her original March Lane store, and she said opening a second location lets her build on that work. “Opening a second Chick-fil-A restaurant allows us to expand that commitment by creating more opportunities for team members,” Farage said, per the outlet's report.

To celebrate, Farage and her team will host a Moove-In Party on opening day, with guests who show up dressed in cow spots eligible to redeem one free entrée or kids meal. The new location will serve the Stockton community Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with drive-thru service available until 11 p.m.

A Fast-Growing Corner of North Stockton

The new Chick-fil-A isn't opening in isolation. It's part of an 18-acre master-planned commercial development that the Stockton Planning Commission reviewed back in March 2024, a project designed to subdivide the site into parcels for Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out Burger, Dutch Bros Coffee, and a self-storage facility, according to ABC10. Chick-fil-A's site plan alone includes a drive-thru queue built to accommodate up to 46 vehicles, a sign of how heavy commuter traffic along the Interstate 5 corridor shaped the project's design.

Construction is already underway next door on an adjacent In-N-Out Burger, which the station reports began in July and is expected to generate 50 to 60 jobs paying $22 an hour. The same report notes the broader commercial cluster has drawn some minor community pushback over the concentration of fast-food drive-thrus on Trinity Parkway and how the area will manage the resulting traffic.

Stockton's Job Market Is Booming

The 85 positions at the new restaurant land in a city riding a wave of employment growth. Federal employment data analyzed in June ranked Stockton as California's No. 2 job growth hotspot behind only San Jose, driven by robust hiring across the Central Valley, as Hoodline previously reported.

Those new jobs also come with a wage floor set by state law. Under California's Assembly Bill 1228, which took effect in April 2024, fast-food workers at chains with 60 or more national locations must be paid a minimum of $20 an hour, according to the state Department of Industrial Relations. A May working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the $20 wage floor has raised fast-food worker pay statewide by roughly 7% while significantly reducing employee turnover and job separation, with the sharpest turnover declines showing up at large corporate chains covered by the law.

A Track Record of Local Investment

Farage's expansion follows a history of operational experimentation at her original store. In August 2022, she launched a quick-service industry pilot program at her March Lane location, installing a solar-powered microgrid with drive-thru solar canopies and battery storage designed to keep the restaurant running during power outages, ABC10 reported at the time. She was also named to the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Stockton Class of 2024, completing an 11-month civic leadership and community engagement program according to the chamber.

Chick-fil-A, Inc. is pairing the opening with a broader round of local giving. The company donated $25,000 to Second Harvest of the Greater Valley for local hunger relief, part of $100,000 in total donations this year to Feeding America partner food banks across the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto market, per WhatNow's report. Second Harvest serves an eight-county Central Valley footprint, delivering emergency food and produce to an estimated 35,000 people each month, according to ABC10. The restaurant will also participate in Chick-fil-A's Shared Table program, which redirects surplus food to local nonprofits and has helped create more than 42 million meals nationwide to date.

Corporate Scale and What's Next

The Stockton opening adds to a fast-expanding national footprint. As of August, Chick-fil-A operates 3,450 locations across the United States, with California standing as the chain's fourth-largest state market at 223 locations, according to ScrapeHero, while Texas leads the nation with more than 500 locations. Farage said she plans to keep expanding her team's impact and continue serving the Stockton community as the new restaurant settles into the growing Trinity Parkway corridor.

The area has also drawn attention from local law enforcement in the past. Stockton police issued public calls for assistance in August 2025 following a commercial robbery in the 10400 block of Trinity Parkway, part of ongoing public safety monitoring along the northside I-5 retail corridor that Hoodline covered at the time.