Eat more chicken?

Recently, Jason Dittman and his wife, Jodi, realized they had a problem. Their Tampa Chick-fil-A store was simply not built to accommodate the growing number of customers they serve.

Their store, which the Dittmans opened in 1997, was the Tampa market's first free-standing location. The couple knew that 17 years later, the store needed a full refresh.

“The original building was not built to do the sales volume we enjoyed,” Jason Dittman, 43, says. “We made several attempts to fix the parking, the kitchen, the drive thru... Every fix revealed a problem more glaring.”