Chick-fil-A
Transcript: How did Chick-fil-A start? Chick-fil-A has managed to be successful by providing good food with polite manners. They keep their stores very clean and provide lots of opportunity for advancement for all their employees. They treat their employees with respect and provide many openings for their career when they leave Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday and that sets them apart from other quick serve restaurants in the business. Mr. Cathy founded Chick-fil-A, Inc. in the early 1960's and pioneered the establishment of restaurants in shopping malls in 1967. Since then, Chick-fil-A has steadily grown to become the second largest quick-serice chicken restaurant chain in the United States, with over 1,500 locations in 39 states and Washington, DC. In 1946, Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant called The Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia. He sold chicken, steak, hamburgers, and breakfast items. Then, Truett Cathy invented the chicken sandwich. It was such a huge hit that chicken would become his only product. Truett tried to paten "Chicken Sandwich" but it was too common. How Chick-fil-A has managed to be successful Company Information What does Chick-fil-A produce? Chick-fil-A is a private company. Truett Cathy's family still owns the company to this day. Truett's son is, Dan Cathy, is the current owner. His other son, Donald M. Cathy or "Bubba" is the Vice President of the company. What is Chick-fil-A's history? Chick-fil-A sells boneless chicken in many forms and presented in different ways. They also sell salads, fries, parfaits, deserts, soups, and drinks. Business structure of Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-a has many divisions of the company with heads of each department. Chick-fil-A employs people to train the owners of the individual stores. The owners are the most common job in the business, but Chick-fil-A needs people for advertising, accounting, product testing and many more. All stores are owned individually but are underneath the corporate name so prices and set.