Website chickensaladchick.com Number of locations 51 Founders Stacy Brown, Kevin Brown | Founded 2008 Headquarters Auburn | |
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Industry Fast casual restaurant chain and franchise Products Chicken salad, sandwiches, side dishes Profiles | ||
Chicken salad chick
Chicken Salad Chick is a fast casual chain of chicken restaurants based in Auburn, Alabama. As of November 2015, the chain consists of 43 franchise restaurants and 8 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.
Fare
The restaurant concept serves 15 styles of chicken salad, which is served on bread or a bed of lettuce. It also sells chicken salad by the pound for take-out. Additionally, it purveys delicatessen-style sandwiches and side dishes.
Awards
The Chicken Salad Chick location in Panama City Beach, Florida won the 2014 People's Choice Award in its second annual franchise awards.
In October 2014, it was named the 2014 Restaurateur of the Year by the Alabama Restaurant and Hospitality Alliance.
Recently, it was honored with the 2015 Breakout Brand by Nation's Restaurant News.
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.