Chick-fil-A has set an opening date for its new Lake Ronkonkoma restaurant. The drive-thru and dining room will open at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, the company announced.

The restaurant is at 575 Portion Road in Lake Shore Plaza, on the former Verizon Wireless site near Regal Cinemas. It will be Chick-fil-A’s 14th Long Island location and its ninth in Suffolk County.

Local owner-operator Sam Nesbitt will run the restaurant, which will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday. It will offer dine-in, drive-thru, carryout, mobile pickup and third-party delivery.

“I’m incredibly excited to open our doors and welcome the Lake Ronkonkoma community to Chick-fil-A,” Nesbitt said in the announcement. “Our hope is to create a place where Guests of all ages can come together, enjoy a delicious meal and feel genuinely cared for.”

The chain has since expanded into Nassau, with five locations there. In the past two years, it opened in Selden and near Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, both in spring 2025, followed by Bohemia’s Sayville Plaza in March 2026.

Now, two more are locations are int the works.

In Bay Shore, Chick-fil-A plans to tear down the former TGI Fridays at South Shore Mall and build a restaurant with two drive-thru lanes. The project still needs site-plan approval and a building permit.

In Riverhead, the Planning Board granted final site-plan approval in May 2025 for a Chick-fil-A with a drive-thru and patio seating at the northwest corner of Route 58 and Mill Road, accoring to RiverheadLOCAL. Neither location has an announced opening date.