If you wanted to sign-up for the free breakfast promotional on Chick-fil-A's website, you are out of luck.
The fast food joint offered a promotional for customers to reserve a free breakfast entrée at one of their nationwide locations. However, due to the high volume of success, Chick-fil-A had to shut down the reservations.
"More than 1 million customers throughout the country reserved a free breakfast entree for next week, so we decided to discontinue using the reservation site," a spokesman for the company told the Los Angeles Times.
However, for those lucky enough to have reserved their free breakfast, they are still able to pick up their free entrée starting Monday, Sept. 9 to Saturday, Sept. 14 from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
"Customers have learned they better participate sooner rather than later," Spokesman Mark Baldwin told LA Times. "The early bird gets the chicken."
Or Chick-fil-A could come up with a better way to serve their customers.
The fast food joint is not the only place that will give its customers freebees now and then. The International House of Pancakes, better known as IHOP, gives out free pancakes to their customers once a year, and so does Denny's for National Pancake Day. However, IHOP gives out free pancakes to raise money for charities.
Dunkin Donuts participates in National Doughnut day. 7-Eleven gives out free Slurpee's once a year. It's not an uncommon marketing attempt to hand out free food to draw in business.
Although pancakes are more cost effect and some places do run out of the sweet breakfast treats, they can always tweak the promotion next time around. And adding a charitable cause may not be such a bad idea for Chick-fil-A, since they have been reportedly associated with anti-gay activists in the past.
Did you sign up for the free breakfast? What do you think about the promotional event? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below!