Chicken Salad Chick
 Company logo | |
| Industry | Fast casualrestaurant chainandfranchise |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2008inAuburn, Alabama |
| Founders | Stacy and Kevin Brown |
| Headquarters | |
Number of locations | 269[1](2024) |
| Products | Chicken salad,sandwiches, side dishes, and desserts |
| Website | chickensaladchick |
Chicken Salad Chickis afast casual restaurantchain and franchiseof chicken salad restaurants based inAtlanta, Georgia.[2]To date, the chain consists of over 260franchiserestaurants and stores in 19 differentU.S. states.[3][4]
History
[edit]The company started with Stacy Brown, who was unemployed, divorced, and raising three children. She started selling her homemade chicken salad door-to-door in Auburn, Alabama. With the health department prohibiting the sale of foods cooked in one's home, Stacy and her future husband Kevin Brown devised a plan to open a restaurant.[5][6][7]
In 2016, Chicken Salad Chick was ranked #37 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the U.S.[8][9]
The restaurant is partially owned by private equity firmBrentwood Associates,who also have investments inBlaze PizzaandLazy Dog Restaurant & Bar.[10]
Fare
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The restaurant serves fifteen styles ofchicken salad,served on bread, lettuce as a scoop with crackers, or in a leafy green salad.[7][11]It also provides chicken salad by the pound fortake-outanddelicatessen-style sandwiches andside dishes.[7]
The restaurant's menu includes pimento cheese, egg salad, broccoli salad, fruit salad, macaroni and cheese, pasta salad, and grape salad. Daily soup specials include tomato bisque, broccoli & cheese, chicken & artichoke florentine, and chicken tortilla; loaded potato soup is available daily.[12]
Philanthropy
[edit]The Chicken Salad Chick Foundation was founded by the company in August 2014 and is a partner with theAmerican Cancer Society.[13]The foundation also partners withfood banksin communities with Chicken Salad Chick restaurant locations in efforts to nourish people in need.[13]For example, in 2014, the foundation donated over $6,000 to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.[14]Since the foundation's inception, Chicken Salad Chick restaurants have served to generate "...more than $100,000 in donations to fight cancer and hunger in the communities it serves".[15]Barclay Smith is the director of the foundation.[13]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^"Locations".Chicken Salad Chick.RetrievedJune 11,2024.As of June 6, 2024
- ^"Atlanta Based Chicken Salad Chick Buys Locally Owned Piece of Cake"(Press release). November 2, 2023.
- ^"Chicken Salad Chick Grows In Texas With Second Houston Opening This Year"(Press release). Houston, TX: RestaurantNews. March 28, 2019.
- ^"Locations".Chicken Salad Chick.RetrievedApril 21,2021.
- ^Liedke, Matthew (December 28, 2022)."More Stores on Tap for Virginia Chicken Salad Chick Franchisee".Franchise Times.RetrievedJanuary 1,2023.
- ^"Our Story".Chicken Salad Chick.RetrievedJune 16,2023.
- ^abcThorn, Bret (February 12, 2015)."Breakout Brands 2015: Chicken Salad Chick".Nation's Restaurant News.RetrievedMarch 21,2015.
- ^"Spread the Word: Chicken Salad Chick Is No. 896 on the Inc. 5000 This Year!".Inc.RetrievedAugust 30,2018.
- ^Rogers, Kate (October 20, 2016)."Business advice from some of America's fastest-growing companies".CNBC.RetrievedAugust 30,2018.
- ^Coley, December 2020 Ben."Snooze Notches Minority Investment from Brentwood Associates".FSR magazine.RetrievedDecember 23,2020.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^Kennedy, Bud (November 6, 2017)."Like chicken salad? Here's 15 flavors, from Southern to spicy".star-telegram.RetrievedDecember 27,2017.
- ^Ruggiero, Loretta (April 19, 2019)."'Openings and Closings: Two Daphne's Mediterraneans, Chicken Salad Chick'".Houston Press.RetrievedApril 20,2019.
- ^abcHarper, Brad (August 28, 2014)."Chicken Salad Chick fights hunger, cancer".The Montgomery Advertiser.RetrievedMarch 21,2015.
- ^"Chicken Salad Chick Supports Chattanooga Area Food Bank With Fundraiser".The Chattanoogan.December 22, 2014.RetrievedMarch 21,2015.
- ^Berry, Lucy (May 14, 2014)."Chicken Salad Chick founders take home Alabama's 2014 Restaurateur of the Year award".The Birmingham News.RetrievedMarch 21,2015.
Further reading
[edit]- Garman, Valerie (February 24, 2015)."Chicken Salad Chick tops Paula Deen list".The News Herald.Archived fromthe originalon March 12, 2015.RetrievedMarch 21,2015.