Biz - The Fastest Food Business: Chick-Fil-A

I have never seen a more successful fast food restaurant as Chick-Fil-A. I was seeking to purchase their common stock but they are privately held. No indications they will ever issue public equity.



At the Houston locations we frequent, during lunch and dinner hour, traffic overflows into the main streets they have so much business. They are beyond the drive through menu. At peak times they have their staff greeting vehicles as they edge into the parking lot and placing customer orders with portable electronic order tablets six or seven cars before the vehicles even reach the drive through menu board.

Little wonder they are the fastest of the fastest in the fast food business.

Chick-Fil-A Wins 6th Drive-thru Title

My kids love Chick-Fil-A and they are closed on Sundays.

There is only one Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Rochester, Michigan, I believe near Oakland University but is closed during the summer. A question becomes, why aren’t there Chick-Fil-A’s in Michigan?

Could it be the Michigan legal and business climate is so hostile to their corporate culture or structure Michigan is not a viable marketplace in their view? It’s the only explanation I can think of as to why Chick-Fil-A wouldn’t expand their market share into Michigan either through corporate stores or franchises.