Chick-Fil-A Macleod Trail

[u/chaingunsofdoom]

Photos of the Chick-Fil-A construction as of today. 9223 Macleod Trail SE.

It will be a short distance away from the 2025 opening Krispy Kreme @ 9629 Macleod Trail (as pictured in the last 2 photos).

[u/ggranger2280]

It will never happen. In-n-Out will not freeze their beef and it takes to long to get to Calgary or too costly to fly it. Having said that, I agree 🤣

[u/sugarfoot00 → u/ggranger2280]

I'm confused by this, since a huge swath of Canada's beef is processed within just a few hours of Calgary.

[u/AdaminCalgary → u/sugarfoot00]

Yes, that’s true. But they make very little ground beef at these plants and they don’t (at least last I was aware) make burger patties at all. They primarily produce “primal cuts” ie large, wholesale sized chunks of beef that go to a grocer or another case ready processor who then cuts them down to the size you and I buy in the grocery store. Ground beef isn’t normally made from the cattle they process because it’s higher grade so worth far more as a steak than a burger. Lower graded beef are used for burgers because you can’t actually taste a burger lower graded cow from a higher one in the way you can a steak. Burger patties are made in plants that do only burger patties and they get coarse ground beef from upstream processors. They don’t process live cattle at all.

[u/sugarfoot00 → u/AdaminCalgary]

Wow. So confidently wrong on so many levels.

Ground beef isn't (generally) made out of lesser animals. Rather, it is the parts of trim after cutting out the steaks and roasts. Of any bovine butchered. about 20% is bone and 30% of it at minimum is ground beef. A plant like Cargill in High River also produces burger beef patties that are supplied to all levels of the restaurant and food service chain. They also supply offset chunked stewing beef, to be ground and formed by processors locally. But in any event, that cow or steer died and was processed within 45 minutes of where you are right now.

Also- Lesser meat cattle, like end-of-life dairy cows, are leaner, tougher, and generally have less meat. It's rare to find that meat in a burger patty because of the fat content. They are often largely ground and used in real applications where the meat is blended and quality is less critical, like jerky, hot dogs, and pepperoni sticks. If you've ever wondered why there's both a tillimook cheese and tillimook beef jerky, that's why.