Chicken Salad Chick
IndustryFast casual restaurant chain and franchise
Founded2008 (2008) in Auburn, Alabama
FoundersStacy and Kevin Brown
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
Number of locations
286 (2022)
ProductsChicken salad, sandwiches, side dishes, and desserts
Websitechickensaladchick.com

Chicken Salad Chick is a fast casual restaurant chain and franchise of chicken salad restaurants based in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] To date, the chain consists of over 280 franchise restaurants and stores in 19 different U.S. states.[2][3]

History

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.[4][5][6]

In 2016, Chicken Salad Chick was ranked #37 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the U.S.[7][8]

The restaurant is partially owned by private equity firm Brentwood Associates, who also have investments in Blaze Pizza and Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar.[9]

Fare

A scoop of the Classic Carol at a Chicken Salad Chick restaurant

The restaurant serves fifteen styles of chicken salad, served on bread, lettuce as a scoop with crackers, or in a leafy green salad.[6][10] It also provides chicken salad by the pound for take-out and delicatessen-style sandwiches and side dishes.[6]

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.[11]

Philanthropy

The Chicken Salad Chick Foundation was founded by the company in August 2014 and is a partner with the American Cancer Society.[12] The foundation also partners with food banks in communities with Chicken Salad Chick restaurant locations in efforts to nourish people in need.[12] For example, in 2014, the foundation donated over $6,000 to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.[13] 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".[14] Barclay Smith is the director of the foundation.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Altanta Based Chicken Salad Chick Buys Locally Owned Piece of Cake" (Press release). November 2, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Chicken Salad Chick Grows In Texas With Second Houston Opening This Year" (Press release). Houston, TX: RestaurantNews.com. March 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Locations". Chicken Salad Chick. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  4. ↑ Liedke, Matthew (December 28, 2022). "More Stores on Tap for Virginia Chicken Salad Chick Franchisee". Franchise Times. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Our Story". Chicken Salad Chick. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 Thorn, Bret (February 12, 2015). "Breakout Brands 2015: Chicken Salad Chick". Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Spread the Word: Chicken Salad Chick Is No. 896 on the Inc. 5000 This Year!". Inc.com. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  8. ↑ Rogers, Kate (October 20, 2016). "Business advice from some of America's fastest-growing companies". CNBC. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  9. ↑ Coley, December 2020 Ben. "Snooze Notches Minority Investment from Brentwood Associates". FSR magazine. Retrieved December 23, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Kennedy, Bud (November 6, 2017). "Like chicken salad? Here's 15 flavors, from Southern to spicy". star-telegram. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  11. ↑ Ruggiero, Loretta (April 19, 2019). "'Openings and Closings: Two Daphne's Mediterraneans, Chicken Salad Chick'". Houston Press. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  12. 1 2 3 Harper, Brad (August 28, 2014). "Chicken Salad Chick fights hunger, cancer". The Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Chicken Salad Chick Supports Chattanooga Area Food Bank With Fundraiser". The Chattanoogan. December 22, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  14. ↑ Berry, Lucy (May 14, 2014). "Chicken Salad Chick founders take home Alabama's 2014 Restaurateur of the Year award". The Birmingham News. Retrieved March 21, 2015.

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