I’ve never been to one but I see one recently opened near Seattle; I’ll make an effort to go there.
There are new ones in Tacoma and Bellevue. They’re on my list next time I’m in the area!
Anecdotal evidence but... the new Chil-Fil-A near Seattle is actually in Bellevue, WA (six miles west of downtown Seattle) on the corner of NE 8th and 116th Streets. I live just up the hill from it and have never seen anything like the first month it was opened (in the last week of May.) Every day there was a long line of people waiting to get into the store over a three hour period covering lunch hours and again at dinner time. The Drive-In line was so long that the Bellevue Police had to post a traffic cop at the corner but even that wasn’t enough; several days later they had to add a second one because the traffic was so overwhelming.
Each day at lunch hour, you can see groups of office workers and others on foot streaming towards their location. Now, two months later, they still need a cop on weekends and it is an unusual day when I don’t see the line still outside the door. If a second one has opened in Tacoma, I presume they are having the same sort of response.
After all the discouragement of last week, it’s great to see the good guys are still alive and well.