Chicken Salad Chick

Chicken Salad Chick
Industry Fast casual restaurant chain and franchise
Founded 2008 in Auburn, Alabama
Founders Stacy and Kevin Brown
Headquarters Auburn, Alabama, United States [1]
Number of locations
 29
Products Chicken salad, sandwiches, side dishes
Website chickensaladchick.com

Chicken Salad Chick is a fast casual chain of chicken restaurants based in Auburn, Alabama.[1][2][3] As of November 2015, the chain consists of 43 franchise restaurants and 8 company-owned stores.[2] 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.[2][4] The company was founded in Auburn, Alabama in 2008 by Stacy and Kevin Brown.[2][3]

History

The company's origins started with Stacy Brown selling her homemade chicken salad door-to-door in Auburn, Alabama.[1][2] The health department advised that the sales of foods cooked in one's home is prohibited, so the Browns devised a plan to open a restaurant.[1][2]

Fare

The restaurant concept serves 15 styles of chicken salad, which is served on bread or a bed of lettuce.[2] It also sells chicken salad by the pound for take-out.[2] Additionally, it purveys delicatessen-style sandwiches and side dishes.[2]

Awards

The Chicken Salad Chick location in Panama City Beach, Florida won the 2014 People's Choice Award in its second annual franchise awards.[3]

In October 2014, it was named the 2014 Restaurateur of the Year by the Alabama Restaurant and Hospitality Alliance.[5]

Recently, it was honored with the 2015 Breakout Brand by Nation's Restaurant News.[6]

Philanthropy

The Chicken Salad Chick Foundation was founded by the company in August 2014 and is a partner with the American Cancer Society.[7] The foundation also partners with food banks in communities with Chicken Salad Chick restaurant locations in efforts to nourish people in need.[7] For example, in 2014, the foundation donated over $6,000 to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.[8] 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".[9] Barclay Smith is the director of the foundation.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "About us". Chicken Salad Chick. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Thorn, Bret (February 12, 2015). "Breakout Brands 2015: Chicken Salad Chick". Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Garman, Valerie (March 19, 2015). "PCB Chicken Salad Chick wins franchise award". The News Herald. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ Downes, Catherine (November 12, 2014). "Chicken Salad Chick to Open in Dallas". Side Dish magazine. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ Berry, Lucy (March 9, 2015). "Pick a new chicken salad flavor, win $5,000 from Alabama-based Chicken Salad Chick". The Birmingham News. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ Berry, Lucy (1 April 2015). "Southwest Senorita, Dill-icious Diva or Curry Queen? Chicken Salad Chick names its finalists". Al.com. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 Harper, Brad (August 28, 2014). "Chicken Salad Chick fights hunger, cancer". The Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Chicken Salad Chick Supports Chattanooga Area Food Bank With Fundraiser". The Chattanoogan. December 22, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ 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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