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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.
Yum! opened Super Chix in Central Arlington, Texas, a restaurant similar in format to Chick-fil-A, on April 9, 2014. [37] In the summer of 2014, Yum!'s Taco Bell subsidiary launched its U.S. Taco Co and Urban Tap Room fast-casual taco concept restaurant in Huntington Beach, California, to take on fast casual restaurants like Chipotle and Panera .
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 ...
The Wendy's Company owns Wendy's and T.J. Cinnamons Yum! Brands (spun off from PepsiCo in 1997) owns KFC , Taco Bell , and Pizza Hut restaurants outside of China.
You see, Chick-fil-A founder, Truett Cathy, launched the company that would become Chick-fil-A with one restaurant in Hapeville, Georgia in 1946. First called the Dwarf Grill (it was later renamed ...
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 ...
Chick-fil-A also outperformed another chain known for raking in tons of revenue at its stores: Portillo's. The Italian beef and Chicago-style hot dog chain saw $9.1 million in average store ...
"Food Is Essential to Life", says Truett Cathy on sign in Chick-fil-A in San Antonio, Texas. Cathy began the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville in 1946 with a restaurant called the Dwarf Grill, named for its size. It was there that he, with his brother and business partner Ben, created the chicken sandwich that ...