Employees at a Birmingham, Ala. Chick-Fil-A helped drivers limited to Highway 280 because of a snowstorm that bombarded the southern United States Tuesday Fox News reported.
The location originally closed but workers flocked back to the restaurant after they could not get back to their residences to feed people who were in the same situation.
"Our store is about a mile and a half from the interstate and it took me two hours to get there," Audrey Pitt , a manager at the Chick-Fil-A told Fox News. "It was a parking lot as far as I could see," Pitt told Fox News.
Some drivers had no food or water during the seven hours they sat in their vehicles until Chick-Fil-A employees hand delivered 280 chicken sandwiches as a courtesy Fox News reported.
"They were very excited and extremely thankful," Pitt told Fox News. "People were thankful to get something to put in their stomachs," Pitt told Fox News. This company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you're worried about money or profit. We were just trying to follow the model that we've all worked under for so long and the model that we've come to love. There was really nothing else we could have done but try to help people any way we could," Pitt told Fox News.
"We just wanted to be able to help," Pitt told Fox News. "Yesterday was such a hopeless situation. We wanted to do something to make people feel a little bit better. We were here. We had food and there were people outside who needed food. So it just made sense to do something for them."
The restaurant was also unlocked for motorists to rest until weather and driving conditions improved.
"I looked up and I'm like, what is he doing," Lauren Dango, observer who saw owner Mark Meadows in action told Fox News. "He had a catering order and it got canceled, so he pulled over and started giving away food," Dango told Fox News.
