Chick-Fil-A Cow Appreciation Day is TODAY! Dress in Cow Attire & Score Free Entree

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Boy and family dressed in cow attire for Chick-Fil-A Cow Appreciation Day

Today is the day to get your FREE Chick-fil-A!

Today, July 9th only, Chick-fil-A is hosting their Annual Cow Appreciation Day and awarding customers dressed in cow attire with a FREE breakfast, lunch or dinner entrée from opening until 7PM!

Customers who arrive wearing any sort of cow apparel like a cow-spotted scarf, purse, hat or other accessories will receive the free entrée offer!

Man holding Chick-Fil-A Original Chicken Sandwich

Adults can choose from entrées like the Original Chicken Sandwich, Grilled Chicken Cool Wrap, Egg White Grill and more (entrée salads will not be available as part of Cow Appreciation Day).

Girl dressed in cow attire for Chick-Fil-A Cow Appreciation Day

Kiddos dressed in cow attire will score a free Kids Meal – they will be able to choose from a Chick-n-Strips Kids Meal, Chick-fil-A Nuggets Kids Meal or Grilled Nugget Kids Meal.

Chick-fil-A Cow Appreciation Day Face Mask

Forgot to make your costume? Don’t stress!

You can take a paper plate, decorate it and tape a popsicle stick to it. Easy Peasy! Another idea is to cut out cow ears from felt or paper, glue them to a piece of cardboard and then glue them to a headband. Click here to view more costume ideas.


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Comments 35

  1. Maria

    Do they have the printable again this year?

    • Amber (Hip Sidekick)

      Hi Maria! I don’t find a printable link, however there are ideas listed through the bottom link above that are easy to use. Hope that helps!

  2. Jessica

    We went this morning for breakfast before dropping my son off for camp! Love Cow Appreciation Day! 🐮

    • Amber (Hip Sidekick)

      How fun! Glad you could enjoy the event!

  3. hrosana

    Can we do drive thru?

    • Amber (Hip Sidekick)

      Hi there! I have heard that some have been able to grab the offer through the drive through as well. You could always call in to your location to be certain before heading out! Hope that helps!

    • Jean

      My local CFA does honor drive thru. That’s how they provide crowd control.

    • Kel

      We did and it worked!

    • Jo

      We were able to get the offer through our drive thru! I wore a black and white dress and my son had on a white shirt with black shorts. Both outfits qualified for ‘cow attire!’

  4. Maggie M.

    Took my kids by there for lunch! Love Chick Fil a and this event! I’ve been dressing my kids as cows since my daughter was 4- she’s now 11! LOL

    • Amber (Hip Sidekick)

      What a fun tradition! Glad you could enjoy this event again this year!

  5. julie

    My CFA did NOT give my kids free kids meals….entrees only 😭 they were really sad about it.

    • Amanda

      I’m sorry! We don’t participate anymore because our closest cfa is terrible. Said my kids didn’t look enough like cows and wouldn’t give them anything a couple years ago.

      • Jen

        I bet if you emailed customer service that story they’d send you coupons. That’s not very spirited at all :/

      • Elle

        Amanda, Chick-fil-A changed the requirements for free food maybe 3 years ago. It used to be where you had to have multiple cow items to be eligible for a meal versus an entree. Now, ANYTHING cow-like gets you a free entree (excluding salads) and kids can get a kid’s meal. It would be worth trying your local CFA again.

  6. Jean

    My favorite day of the year was just tarnished! I found huge long brown hair in my sandwich! That definitely messed up my day! GROSS!!! YUCK!!!

    • Amber (Hip Sidekick)

      OH NO! Were you able to let a manager know?

      • Jean

        I did call back. I had gone through the drive thru. She just added a sandwich on my app. But I am still grossed out!!

        • Amber (Hip Sidekick)

          Yeah, I can understand that! Glad you could let them know about it!

  7. Ash

    Kids both got 6piece kids meals plus traded the toy in for ice cream and I got a spicy deluxe sandwich…. winner winner free chicken lunch

    • Amber (Hip Sidekick)

      Woohoo! My kids have liked trading the toys in too! Thanks for sharing, Ash! SO glad you enjoyed the event!

  8. Julie

    The kids meal toy at our Chick-fil-A were family movie night themed and included a free rental code through fandango for certain movies! Some of the choices were on Netflix but we were really impressed with the number of movies that you could choose from!

  9. Nickole

    My CFA let my friend get a 30 piece as an entree!!
    I can’t decide if it’s taking advantage or not, but worth the ask!

    • Jessica

      Uh yeah. That’s taking advantage.

  10. M

    Drive thru worked. I had cow hand puppet. Toddler drew cow mask. Baby had cow onesie. Saved $18! Not even a long wait.

  11. Donna

    I have a cow valve in my heart. Doubt they’d accept that LOL

    • Deb

      Love your sense of humor!

      • Donna

        Thanks

  12. Dana

    I’ve been taking my kids for 3 or 4 years now! My local Chick Fil A has been awarded the title of the fastest in Ohio and the 7th fastest in the US, so they handle this event with no trouble at all! We’re always able to find a seat, we wait in line for only about 5 minutes and then wait at our table for just a couple minutes before they bring us our food, then the kids have a few minutes to play in the play area. Service is always friendly and never frazzled. And we never wait in the drive thru because they have 4 or 5 people with ipads taking orders and payment, then the food is usually waiting bagged for us when we get to the window. Parking is the only pain at my CFA, in fact today someone got pretty nasty with me because I parked in a spot he was evidently planning to back into. I had no idea of this til he got out of his car and came to my window.

  13. Brittany

    Bummer, forgot this was today! We had fun last year!

  14. 5pink1blue

    We went this year too. Timed it to get there after the lunch crowd. We like to wear black and white and the same cow masks and eat more chicken signs they handed out in 2012. A family tradition.

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