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MIDTOWN — The city's first free-standing Chick-Fil-A restaurant shuttered over the weekend after a recent inspection found flies and food stored at unsafe temperatures, among other violations, according to officials.
The Chick-Fil-A at Sixth Avenue and West 37th Street voluntarily closed on Dec. 30 — just three months after opening with a flurry of press attention and free giveaways — in order to retrain staff and fix the problems that surfaced during a Dec. 24 inspection, according to company representatives and a Health Department spokesman.
The eatery was slapped with a total of 59 violations points for transgressions including presence of fruit flies and failure to protect food from contamination, according to the DOH.
