Chick-fil-A fans celebrate as northwest Las Vegas eatery opens

Carson Heese serves a customer as the new Chick-Fil-A opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Chick-Fil-A Owner/Operators Misti and Foster Cunningham, from right, pose for a “first bite” of chicken sandwich with Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members as the store officially opens along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Vehicles move along the drive-thru as the new Chick-Fil-A opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Chick-Fil-A Owner/Operators Misti and Foster Cunningham, center, cut a ribbon with Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members as the store officially opens along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Boy Scout Troop 314 members raise an American flag as the new Chick-Fil-A opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Megan Woodcock, from left, and Aline Gomez take an order for customer Derrick Franklin as the new Chick-Fil-A opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Customers have a bite in the dining room as the new Chick-Fil-A opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Boy Scout Troop 314 members are on hand as the new Chick-Fil-A opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

The Chick-Fil-A cow greets customers as the store opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

The new Chick-Fil-A opens complete with a ribbon cutting ceremony and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members on hand along Centennial Center Boulevard on Thursday, March, 10, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Five years after its Nevada debut prompted diners to camp outside its doors, Chick-fil-A has opened another Las Vegas-area eatery.

The popular chicken sandwich chain held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for a new restaurant near the 215 Beltway-U.S. Highway 95 interchange in the northwest valley.

According to a Facebook post, the eatery, 6410 Centennial Center Blvd., was set to open at 6 a.m., with the first 100 guests receiving a grand opening cup, a “plush cow” and Chick-fil-A “digital offer cards.” Misti Cunningham, owner and operator of the franchised location, was joined at the ceremony by Vegas Chamber members.

Chick-fil-A now has 12 locations in Southern Nevada, according to its website, and at least one more in the works.

It has drawn up plans for a 4,947-square-foot restaurant with a drive-thru at the northwest corner of Lake Mead Parkway and Water Street in Henderson, according to a project statement filed with the city and dated Jan. 28. Efforts to confirm that location’s expected opening were not immediately successful Thursday.

Chick-fil-A opened its first two restaurants in Nevada — both in Henderson — in January 2017. At the time, the first 100 people in line could get 52 free meals.

The Atlanta-based company boasts more than 2,700 restaurants.

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