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Chicken Salad Chick

Chicken Salad Chick is a fast casual restaurant chain and franchise of chicken salad restaurants currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. To date, the chain consists of over 300 franchise restaurants and stores in 22 different U.S. states.[2][3]

History

The company started with Stacy Brown, who was unemployed, divorced, and raising three children. She started selling her homemade chicken salad door-to-door in Auburn, Alabama. With the health department prohibiting the sale of foods cooked in one's home, Stacy and her future husband Kevin Brown devised a plan to open a restaurant.

In 2016, Chicken Salad Chick was ranked #37 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the U.S.[4][5]

The restaurant is partially owned by private equity firm Brentwood Associates, which also has investments in Blaze Pizza and Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar.[6]

Fare

The restaurant serves fifteen styles of chicken salad, served on bread, lettuce as a scoop with crackers, or in a leafy green salad.[7] It also provides chicken salad by the pound for take-out and delicatessen-style sandwiches and side dishes.

The restaurant's menu includes pimento cheese, egg salad, broccoli salad, fruit salad, macaroni and cheese, pasta salad, and grape salad. Daily soup specials include tomato bisque, broccoli & cheese, chicken & artichoke florentine, and chicken tortilla; loaded potato soup is available daily.

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.

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References

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  2. Chicken Salad Chick Grows In Texas With Second Houston Opening This Year RestaurantNews.com, March 28, 2019^
  3. Locations Chicken Salad Chick, retrieved 2021-04-21^
  4. Spread the Word: Chicken Salad Chick Is No. 896 on the Inc. 5000 This Year! Inc.com, retrieved 2018-08-30^
  5. Kate Rogers. Business advice from some of America's fastest-growing companies CNBC, 2016-10-20, retrieved 2018-08-30^
  6. December 2020 Ben Coley. Snooze Notches Minority Investment from Brentwood Associates FSR magazine, retrieved 2020-12-23^
  7. Bud Kennedy. Like chicken salad? Here's 15 flavors, from Southern to spicy star-telegram, November 6, 2017, retrieved December 27, 2017^
  8. <ref name="Thorn"> Bret Thorn. Breakout Brands 2015: Chicken Salad Chick Nation's Restaurant News, February 12, 2015, retrieved March 21, 2015^
  9. Harper, Brad. Chicken Salad Chick fights hunger, cancer The Montgomery Advertiser, August 28, 2014, retrieved March 21, 2015^
  10. Chicken Salad Chick Supports Chattanooga Area Food Bank With Fundraiser The Chattanoogan, December 22, 2014, retrieved March 21, 2015^
  11. Lucy Berry. Chicken Salad Chick founders take home Alabama's 2014 Restaurateur of the Year award The Birmingham News, May 14, 2014, retrieved March 21, 2015^
  12. Matthew Liedke. More Stores on Tap for Virginia Chicken Salad Chick Franchisee Franchise Times, 2022-12-28, retrieved 2023-01-01^
  13. Our Story Chicken Salad Chick, retrieved 2023-06-16^
  14. Loretta Ruggiero. 'Openings and Closings: Two Daphne's Mediterraneans, Chicken Salad Chick' Houston Press, 2019-04-19, retrieved 2019-04-20^
  15. 2021 Scoop: Chicken Salad Chick announces headquarters relocation to Atlanta Chicken Salad Chick, February 10, 2021, retrieved 2025-02-01^