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Free food lures crowd to Chicken Salad Chick opening
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A line of dozens of people waits for the opening of Chicken Salad Chick on Tuesday. The business promised free chicken salad each month for a year to the first 100 people in line, though the first person will receive free chicken salad each week for a year. People started showing up Monday afternoon.
Put out some free food and, like moths to flame, college students and journalists will eventually show up. Layne Saliba is both, which might be why he waited outside for more than 18 hours for a year’s worth of free Chicken Salad Chick. The new business opened at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Gainesville with a promise of free chicken salad for a year, at 1 pound a month for 12 months, to the first 100 people in line.