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Chick-fil-A headquarters in College Park, Georgia. The chain's origin can be traced to the Dwarf Grill (now the Dwarf House), a restaurant opened by S. Truett Cathy, the chain's former chairman and CEO, in Hapeville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, in 1946, [17] which is near the location of the Ford Motor Company Atlanta Assembly Plant, for many years a source of many of the restaurant's patrons.
By that time, his father was establishing additional restaurants around Atlanta and Georgia as he created the franchise chain known as Chick-fil-A. Cathy earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Georgia Southern University in 1975. After graduation, he began working full-time for his father's company, which had already been ...
Cathy was closely involved in a sponsorship deal on the college football bowl game founded as the Peach Bowl; from 1997 to 2005, and again since 2014, it is known as the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, and was simply named the Chick-fil-A Bowl from 2006 to 2013. [15]
Justin Lamison, franchise owner and operator of Chick-Fil-A in Topeka, said he looks forward to opening a second location in the capital city. Justin Lamison, franchise owner and operator of Chick ...
The chicken chain just released its franchise disclosure document for 2024, which revealed that Chick-fil-A's non-mall restaurants brought in $9.4 million in revenue on average in 2023.
Of these Chick-fil-A locations, 2,235 were franchise stores run by operators. Domestic franchised locations — other than those in malls — averaged annual sales of more than $8.1 million in 2021.
In the 1960s, S. Truett Cathy, the owner of a local diner called the Dwarf House, contracted with Waffle House to sell his proprietary chicken sandwich, the Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich. However, the Chick-fil-A sandwich quickly overtook Waffle House's own items in sales and Waffle House ended the deal, prompting Cathy to spin off Chick-fil-A ...
On top of the thousands of fast-food joints that Chick-fil-A has under its belt, the company also operates a handful of 1950s-themed diners in Georgia called Truett's Grill.The first of these ...