ORANGE PARK, Fla. – A longtime Chick-fil-A guest used more than 300,000 app points to feed Orange Park High School teachers and support staff for Teacher Appreciation Week on Wednesday.
George Clark is the manager at Tom Bush BMW in Orange Park and has regularly ordered from the Wells Road Chick-fil-A for his team for more than seven years to accumulate the points.
“I get lunch boxes for my team at the dealership a couple times a month and there’s about 40 or 50 people on my staff,” Clark said.
But he didn’t realize he was getting points every time he bought food.
“We were going into my account through Google and one day I noticed I had these reward points and I’m like holy cow!” Clark said.
With every purchase, he would accumulate a little more than 4,000 points. He eventually found out he had 340,000 points.
Clark then called Craig Phillips, the owner-operator of that location to ask for help on how to get use the points.
“I’m like ‘Craig, you gotta help me out I got like a bazillion points. Let’s figure out a way we can donate these points to the community,’” Clark said.
He said Phillips came up with the idea of using it for the teachers at Orange Park High School.
Felicia Singleton-Coleman is a teacher and said she loves being appreciated.
“I love the community coming out to appreciate us because teachers are not always appreciated,” Singleton-Coleman said.
Craig Martin, another teacher, echoed that sentiment.
“We do a whole lot of things, a whole lot of activities where we don’t really get thank yous and so this is a pretty big thank you,” Martin said.
Clark said this is beyond anything Chick-fil-A has ever seen.
“They have a whole IT team figuring out how to collect these points,” he said. “I never imagined it would accumulate to that much but over the course of four years it did,”
Clark said he chose teachers because they are unsung heroes and the do a lot for the community and kids.
