Chicken Salad Chick is a fast casual chain of chicken restaurants based in Auburn, Alabama. As of November 2015, the chain consists of 64 franchise restaurants and 13 company-owned stores. Chicken Salad Chick has restaurants in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The company plans to expand into Louisiana & Texas sometime in 2016. The company was founded in Auburn, Alabama, in 2008 by Stacy and Kevin Brown.
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History
The company's origins started with Stacy Brown selling her homemade chicken salad door-to-door in Auburn, Alabama. The health department prohibited the sale of foods cooked in one's home, so the Browns devised a plan to open a restaurant.
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Fare
The restaurant serves fifteen styles of chicken salad, which is served on bread or a bed of lettuce. It also provides chicken salad by the pound for take-out and delicatessen-style sandwiches and side dishes.
Philanthropy
The Chicken Salad Chick Foundation was founded by the company in August 2014 and is a partner with the American Cancer Society. The foundation also partners with food banks in communities with Chicken Salad Chick restaurant locations in efforts to nourish people in need. For example, in 2014, the foundation donated over $6,000 to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. 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". Barclay Smith is the director of the foundation.
See also
- List of chicken restaurants
- List of casual dining restaurant chains
References
Further reading
- Garman, Valerie (February 24, 2015). "Chicken Salad Chick tops Paula Deen list". The News Herald. Archived from the original on March 12, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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