Cow Appreciation Day draws a herd of Chick-fil-A lovers
From left, Ian Matthews, Johnna Matthews, Christina Motichak, Jessica Bular and Bob Motichak collected free meals for their costumes at Chick-fil-A at the Old Mill in South Strabane for Cow Appreciation Day Tuesday.
From left, Grace Crowe, Kellie Crowe, Violet Keener, Alex Crawford, Samuel Crowe and Andrew Crowe don their cow costumes for Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-fil-A at the Old Mill in South Strabane Tuesday.
Cloth cows and cardboard cows, plastic cows and paper cows stampeded into South Strabane’s Chick-fil-A for Cow Appreciation Day.
Anyone wearing a head-to-toe cow costume to Chick-fil-A Tuesday received a free meal. At lunchtime, the store was packed like a cow pen.
Bob Motichak, dressed as a farmer, wrangled a group of teens that included his daughter, Christina Motichak.
“My daughter calls up last night and she says, “You’re the farmer. You don’t have any choice. You’re doing it.”
The group of four from Eighty Four wore matching white T-shirts whith black painted spots and ears. The girls wore homemade udders, and the lone bull, Ian Matthews, wore horns.
Jessica Bular was up until 2 a.m. making her costume.
“We probably spent more on the costume than we would have spent on the meal. But it’s the experience,” she said with a laugh that rang the cowbell around her neck.
The group was composed of first-time cows. Another family, from Waynesburg, has seven years’ experience.
Kellie Crowe is originally from Atlanta, where Chick-fil-A has its headquarters.
“Chick-fil-A is near and dear to my heart,” she said.
Her friends all knew where she would be for lunch Tuesday.
“They all know I’m a self-professed Chick-fil-A addict,” she said. “If I have any addictions as a pastor’s wife, it’s Chick-fil-A.”