Chick-fil-A has announced nine additional restaurants across western Pennsylvania by the end of 2028, with Mars, Butler, Gibsonia and Murrysville among the communities on its expansion schedule. The September 21 announcement projects approximately 1,080 jobs across the full regional rollout. For Pittsburgh-area readers, the plan offers a timetable for several suburban additions while leaving individual opening details to later announcements.
North of Pittsburgh, the company scheduled Mars for October 2026, Butler for spring 2027 and Gibsonia for 2028. Eastward, Indiana is expected by spring 2027, with Murrysville, Latrobe and Johnstown planned by the end of 2028. Hermitage and DuBois round out the nine-location list, also anticipated by 2028. These are the company's announced targets, not a statement that all nine restaurants are operating. The release identifies communities rather than street addresses for most of the projects.
The Mars listing provides practical visit details
The official Mars restaurant page now lists 600 Holden Drive in Valencia and identifies Josh Grimm as its operator. Its posted drive-thru hours are Monday through Saturday, 6:30 a.m.–10 p.m.; dine-in, carry-out and delivery are listed until 9 p.m. The restaurant is closed Sundays. Readers should use the location's own page or call 724-602-0550 to confirm service before traveling. The regional announcement does not supply an exact October opening date.
The listing includes mobile ordering, catering pickup, a playground and breakfast among its amenities, with a note to contact the restaurant about availability. It also advertises full- and part-time team-member and team-leader positions. Those listings give applicants a specific location to investigate rather than relying on the rollout's overall employment projection. Individual job terms and availability can change, so the restaurant's current application information is the useful next step for anyone considering a role.
Local operators and community partnerships
Chad Terry, the company's Northeast Region area director, presented the expansion as an opportunity for local ownership and team development. Chick-fil-A also committed to a $25,000 donation to a Feeding America partner food bank or affiliate for each new restaurant. Its franchising information describes a model centered on selecting local owner-operators who lead individual businesses. That context helps explain why the operator attached to each restaurant matters alongside its address and projected opening window.
The company's Shared Table program provides another route for community involvement: participating restaurants package surplus food for local nonprofit partners, which collect the ingredients and turn them into meals. The program describes a sequence of connecting restaurants with organizations such as soup kitchens, senior centers and after-school programs, packaging unused chicken and produce, and arranging collection. Recipient organizations then prepare new dishes from those ingredients. That is a food-recovery process alongside the separately announced opening donations. Participation and partnerships are organized locally; the national program description does not establish a specific Mars recipient. For the Pittsburgh region, the immediate value of the expansion announcement is a clearer view of where additional restaurant jobs and services are planned. The next meaningful milestones will be location-specific opening announcements, published operating details and hiring information as each project approaches service.