Chick-fil-A is opening a ghost kitchen for multiple chain restaurants in College Park.

Called Little Blue Menu, the kitchen delivery service will be located on the former site of the Applebee’s restaurant at 7242 Baltimore Ave., next to the new Aster development of apartments, shops and a Trader Joe’s coming soon.

Named after the menus at the original Chick-fil-A, the service will offer food for delivery from Chick-fil-A and these four virtual restaurants:

• Outfox Wings, which focuses on wings and sides like roasted Brussels sprouts
• Flock & Farm, which offers items like a flat-iron steak and arugula salad;
• Because Burger, which offers traditional hamburgers and sides; and
• Garden Day, which focuses on salads.

The kitchen will deliver within a 10-mile radius of the location, which would include most of the Route 1 corridor, using hybrid electric vehicles. Food will also be available for pick-up but there would be only limited outdoor seating.

The College Park location would be the second for Little Blue Menu, which opened in Nashville in October of last year. Another location is planned for Atlanta.

The city has disputed whether the ghost kitchen concept would fall under the zoning for the Applebee’s location, which was a traditional sit-down restaurant, saying that the service would be more akin to a drive-thru and asked the county to reject or modify the proposal.

Some residents have also complained about the chain’s history of donating to anti-LGBTQ rights groups, according to the Diamondback.

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