The Chick-fil-A inside Arbor Place Mall (6700 Douglas Blvd Suite 210) in Douglasville is closing September 30 after more than a quarter century in business. The Chick-fil-A has been a mainstay in the Arbor Place food court since the mall's opening in October 1999.
A freestanding former O'Charley's was demolished and rebuilt as a traditional freestanding Chick-fil-A restaurant this past September and is located just off Chapel Hill Road near a main entrance to the mall at 9320 The Landing Drive.
The Douglasville closure comes on the heels of closures of food court locations in Town Center at Cobb in Kennesaw and North Point Mall in Alpharetta earlier this year.
Chick-fil-A and its operators have over the past few years shuttered several other Atlanta area food court locations including those at Northlake Mall in Tucker, North DeKalb Mall near Decatur, Phipps Plaza in Buckhead, CNN Center in downtown Atlanta, and Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth. The company also closed its restaurants at Valdosta Mall in Valdosta, Peachtree Mall in Columbus, in Great Lakes Mall in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area, and in Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, among others.
The very first Chick-fil-A opened in 1967 at Greenbriar Mall in southwest Atlanta. It closed in 2023. The company in July 2025 also closed its location within the food court of The Mall at Stonecrest in Lithonia.
In some cases, however, the company has gotten creative with its food court restaurants and added drive-thru and curbside pickup to augment sluggish mall traffic and make the locations more appealing to drive-by diners. One such food court location to offer these ordering options is at Dalton Mall in Dalton in northwest Georgia.
The Atlanta-based company and its local owner-operators continue to operate food court locations in several local malls including Lenox Square in Buckhead, Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, and Mall of Georgia in Buford, among others. The one major mall food court from which the restaurant is absent and has never been part of, is Sugarloaf Mills in Lawrenceville.
The mall food court, once a vital part of the Chick-fil-A business, is today far less a part of the chain's future and quickly becoming part of its past.
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