Chicken Salad Chick is opening its first full-time Downtown Atlanta restaurant on Monday, October 26, inside The Hub at Peachtree Center, a streamlined new counter aimed squarely at office workers, commuters and hotel guests who want lunch fast. The new spot will run Monday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 231 Peachtree Street.
According to 11Alive, the chain plans to open the location inside Peachtree Center in Downtown Atlanta. The Business Journals reports this marks the brand's first full-time location in the heart of the city, and that the Peachtree Center restaurant introduces a streamlined store format custom-designed for fast-paced urban office workers, commuters and tourists, per The Business Journals.
The outlet also details three days of opening promotions starting October 26: the first customer through the door wins a free Quick Chick container every week for a year, the next 49 customers get one every month for a year, and later days bring branded tote bags and dish towels.
A Downtown First Inside a Massive Complex
The Peachtree Center restaurant is the 47th Chicken Salad Chick in Georgia and only the fourth located within metro Atlanta's core city limits, joining existing locations in Buckhead, Vinings and Dunwoody, the same report notes. The chain has a sizable Georgia footprint.
The restaurant will sit inside The Hub at Peachtree Center, a dining concourse within a complex that spans 2.5 million square feet across three city blocks, connecting six office towers, three major hotels and the Peachtree Center MARTA station through enclosed skywalks, according to Peachtree Center. The Hub itself houses more than 30 retail shops and eateries and draws an estimated 12 million annual visitors, along with roughly 6,000 onsite office workers and guests staying in 4,000 connected hotel rooms, per data from DOMO Realty.
From Auburn Roots to a Cobb County Headquarters
Chicken Salad Chick was founded in Auburn, Alabama, in 2008 and is headquartered in Atlanta. The brand now operates nearly 350 locations across 25 states, having opened 42 restaurants and awarded nearly 100 new franchise deals in 2025 alone, according to a January release from PR Newswire.
Beyond the chain's signature scratch-made chicken salad recipes, the menu also includes cakes and desserts folded in after Chicken Salad Chick acquired Atlanta-based bakery Piece of Cake in 2023, a detail previously reported by Hoodline in its coverage of the chain's expansion into the Kansas City area.
A New Downtown Format
The Downtown Atlanta opening introduces a new format designed for downtown Atlanta.
Whether the downtown pilot format becomes a template for other urban business districts, or how its weekday-heavy hours will perform compared with the chain's full-service suburban stores, remains an open question, per the Business Journals. For now, Downtown Atlanta workers and MARTA riders passing through Peachtree Center will have a new lunch option — and a shot at a year's worth of free chicken salad — starting Monday.
