Emerging Concepts. Menu Innovations. Employee Management. Drive Thru. Drive-Thru and the Evolution of Fast Casual. What Wellness Means Now for Restaurants. Fast Food. Wendy's is Now the No. The Chick-fil-A Backstage Tour offers an authentic storytelling experience inspired by the fascinating history, culture and values of the company.
Purchase tickets. Serving a breaded, boneless chicken breast between two buttered buns is a seemingly simple idea--but it was a novelty for its time. Truett Cathy experimented for years at the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, GA when in , he finally arrived at the perfect recipe. That capital A is on purpose — it means "grade A top quality".
Truett's customers told him, "We like it, don't change it again. Read more. Serving communities across the country with more than 2, restaurants, today customers can find Chick-fil-A inside airports, malls, college campuses, in the heart of Manhattan, and nestled among the thousands of busy streets connecting neighborhoods in 47 states and Washington D.
An innovator from the start, Chick-fil-A was the first restaurant to pair shopping and eating by opening its first restaurant in an Atlanta-area mall. Today our restaurant designs are still leading the way, most recently receiving recognition for a California restaurant design that placed Chick-fil-A among the likes of design icons such as Apple, Ralph Lauren, and Lululemon.
There's nothing standard when it comes to doing business in New York City. To meet the fast-paced lifestyle of our urban customers, we created a new and quicker way to serve them by using iPads to take orders in line. We call it "upstream ordering. With a firm handshake and kind smile Dan T. I work in customer service. As the eldest son of one of the most influential restaurateurs of the last century, Dan has dedicated much of his life to building upon his father S. We would do that almost every day.
Spending little time in the office, Cathy is the driving force behind growing the company into a nationally recognized brand and the largest chicken chain based on annual domestic sales in the country.
Over the years, Cathy has become known as a respected leader, speaker, and influencer in the business community. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts.
Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Hillary Hoffower. The Cathys are the family behind Chick-fil-A , a popular and highly profitable fast-food chain. See more stories on Insider's business page.
The Cathy family's multibillion-dollar fortune is rooted in the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A. In , without any management or restaurant experience, S. It was there that they first served chicken sandwiches, mainly to Ford factory workers and airport employees who worked nearby.
Three years later, Ben died in a plane crash and Truett found himself handling the business on his own. In , he opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant at a mall in Atlanta. More than 60 years later, Chick-fil-A is a massive restaurant empire.
Today, it has more than 2, restaurants across 47 states and Washington, DC. According to Forbes, Truett "practically invented the idea of a quickly served chicken sandwich. Chick-fil-A is a family-owned business. When he passed away in , he left the fast-food chain to his sons, Dan and Bubba. They're America's 21st-richest family-wealth "dynasty," according to a recent report.
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