Taking a Look at Chick-Fill-A

Truett Cathy was born on March 14, 1921 in in Eatonton, Georgia. He attended Boys High School. His full name is Samuel Truett Cathy. He grew up in a boarding home his mother operated. There he learned the principles of hard work, fairness, honesty, loyalty and respect. From the age of eight, when he iced down the cokes he was selling in his front yard drink-stand, he saw the resulting growth in sales, he has certain ways to please his customers. In 1946, T. Cathy and his brother Ben opened a small restaurant and had put those principles to work and immediately began to experience their rewards.

Truett started experimenting with different ways to cook and serve chicken quickly and economically. He started serving a fried chicken breast fillet on a bun to keep customers from getting grease on their fingers. He then went on to perfect the “chicken sandwich” by experimenting with different cooking methods, seasonings and spices. When he finally felt it was right he had ended up using a special blend of seasonings and cooking the chicken in a pressure cooker with peanut oil, then adding a pickle to the finished sandwich. This would eventually become the Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich and become a lasting part of the Chick-fil-A formula.

The company of restaurants started in 1946 when Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant in Georgia. They are credited with inventing the Chick-Fil-A’s boneless breast of chicken sandwich. In the 1960’s, he pioneered the opening of the restaurant in different malls in Atlanta. It has grown to become the largest quick service chicken restaurant chain in the United States based on their domestic annual sales and with over 1900 branches countrywide. The restaurant is privately held and family owned and has been progressing in the delivery of exclusive services to all their customers. The mission of the restaurant is to give identity and value to their clients and the vision is to be America’s best service quick restaurant.

He was named Samuel after a friend of his parents, and also named Truett after, George W. Truett, a pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. His father, Joseph Benjamin, was an insurance salesman for Life and Casualty Company. Joseph collected on life and accidental death policies that yielded sometimes only nickels and dimes. Even though Cathy’s father was a hard worker, he could not make an adequate living for his large family. Often, he would bring home chicken, hams, and other goods from policyholders who were too poor to pay their premiums in cash. Joseph verbally abused his wife. He relied heavily on the older children to take care of him. Truett’s mother, Lilla Kimbell Cathy, ran a boarding house to help support the family. She worked like a slave, keeping house and cooking for her seven children and a houseful of boarders (Cathy, p.36-37).

The film begins with an introduction scenery of acres and large amounts of crops (corn and wheat), along with cattle and other forms of animals used in the production of the meat industry. During the agricultural featured scene, Mr. Schlosser elucidated how food preferences and the way we eat is evolving at a rapid speed, while others still perceive the food industry as an agrarian corporation. The film then makes its emotional appeal towards the audience by providing images and videos of chickens in multiple repulsive situations. The chickens were thrown onto conveyor belts by primarily African American workers, which now accounts for a fine percentage of employees in the food industry. Schlosser elaborates on the unseen dilemma of animal and worker abuse in these corporations. He then exemplifies his realization of how the abuse is enacted in numerous ways, one of which is implementing restrictions as to what workers are allowed to do and say. They use these restrictions as a way of controlling their workers and providers in such industries, because the workers/providers can’t risk losing the income they receive from these multi-billionaire companies. The above said scenes justifies how Schlosser uses emotional appeals to the viewers in order to enhance the initial

According to the Chick-fil-A Team Member handbook, “... we strive to maintain an atmosphere of hospitality for all customers. We want to create a pleasant experience for all who visit our restaurants. We maximize the opportunity to build the business and to positively influence others by creating a welcoming environment. We are hospitable to all customers.” Employees are specially trained to provide a favorable experience when handling visitors or long-time customers. Chick-fil-A began in 1946 in Hapeville, GA, when Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant, Dwarf Grill. Credited with inventing the original boneless breast of chicken sandwich, Mr. Cathy founded Chick-fil-A, Inc. in the 1960s and pioneered the establishment of restaurants in shopping malls. The first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in a mall in suburban Atlanta in 1967. Starting then, Chick-fil-A has steadily grown to become the second largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the United States, with more than 1900 locations. Many reviews on the dining experience are 3.5 to four out of five stars. Based on 91 reviews from Consumer Affairs dot com, the average rating was four out of five

Which is better, Chick-fil-a or Zaxby’s? This is a popular debate. Some people would argue that Zaxby’s is better because they have better chicken. Other people would argue that Chick-fil-a is better because they have better sauces. They both have their benefits, but which is better over all? In order to find this out we can’t go off of taste because everyone has different taste preferences. We must look at many aspects of both restaurants. Some aspects that can determine whether Chick-fil-a or Zaxby’s is better are drinks, desserts, sauces, prices, efficiency, cleanliness, and the attitudes of the workers.

Chick-Fil-A is a healthier, higher quality choice, but it is more expensive and less accessible. If you are going to Chick-Fil-A you must first examine your budget. Chick-Fil-A is an expensive choice in the fast food realm with their cheapest sandwich totaling $3.05 (“Chick-Fil-A Prices”). However, a study was done in 2015 examining meat of the top twenty-five largest fast food restaurants. The examinations consisted of testing the meat for antibiotics used in the maturing and aging of the animals. Chick-Fil-A received a B which was the third highest grade behind Chipotle and Panera Bread who both received A’s (Tinker). This information leads us to conclude that Chick-Fil-A might have higher prices, but it also has impeccable quality. Secondly, before you pick Chick-Fil-A you must examine your lifestyle and taste preference. Chick-Fil-A indeed has very healthy choices of

Part of his success was due to Cathy maintaining the mentality that his company focused on people rather than profits. One of his popular quotes on the matter was “We’re not just in the chicken business, we’re in the people business” (“S Truett Cathy Quotes.” Quoteswise, www.quoteswise.com/s-truett-cathy-quotes.html.) For that very reason, Chick-fil-A would remain closed on Sundays, use an innovative formula for developing managers and restaurants, and provide college scholarships to employees, making a great impact on the surrounding communities. (” New Georgia Encyclopedia”)

In 1951, S. Truett Cathy made an outstanding discovery. After fifteen years of being in the greasy fast food business he found a pressure-fryer that could cook a delicious chicken sandwich in the same time as it would a hamburger patty (Chik-Fil-A.com). Cathy loved it. He decided to birth ‘The Chik-Fil-A.’ Because of the noteable all chicken menu and new way of making chicken sandwiches, Cathy came up with the slogan, “We did not invent the chicken, just the chicken sandwich.” Believe it or not Chik-Fil-A is half a century old. The first ever to open was at Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta. Throughout the seventies and eighties this franchise expanded their business by opening new restaurants in mall food courts. Finally in 1986 Chik-Fil-A opened their very first ever freestanding restaurant. Now as of 2015 there at approximately 1,900 locations in forty-two states (Chik-Fil-A.com). There are in fact twenty eight different Chik-Fil-A locations in the state of Arizona. But, in Vail, Arizona, there are zero of

With tons of beef fast food restaurants out there such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Hardee’s, Chick-fil-A is outnumbered. The majority of fast food places sell hamburgers as their primary food product. Chick-fil-A’s attraction is their chicken sandwich, a “healthier” alternative to the hamburger. Chick-fil-A’s position is as a preferred alternative in the burger-dominated fast food industry.

* Seven banded chickadees made up the ‘Class of 1937’ including bird #65290. (December, pg. 94)

One of the women made the comment that Mrs. Wright used to be pretty and happy, when she was Minnie Foster not Minnie Wright. This is just the beginning of realizing that she was just pushed to far into depression and couldn't live up to John Wright's expectations anymore. The Wrights had no children and Mrs. Wright was alone in the house all day long. The women perceive John Wright to be a controlling husband who in fact probably wouldn't have children and this may have upset Mrs. Wright. They eventually find vacant bird cage and ponder upon what happened to the bird, realizing Mrs. Wright was lonely they figured she loved the bird and it kept her company. The women make reference to the fact that Mrs. Wright was kind of like a bird herself, and that she changed so much since she married John Wright. They begin looking for stuff to bring her and they find the bird dead and they realize someone had wrung its neck. This is when they realize Mrs. Wright was in fact pushed to far, John Wright had wrung her bird's neck and in return Minnie Wright wrung his.

Years later, Milkman and his friend, Guitar, are amazed by the mysterious, even mystical appearance of a peacock over the building of the used car lot where they stand. As the bird descends, Milkman mistakes it for a female, but Guitar corrects him: "He. That's a he. The male is the only one got that tail full of jewelry. Son of a bitch." Milkman, in all his innocent conviction of male superiority, asks why the peacock can fly no better than a chicken, and Guitar, who wants to catch and eat the bird, answers, "Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down" (179-80).

The Mc Donald brother’s created a revolutionary idea of how to run a restaurant. They brought the factory system to the back of their restaurant, training employees to do just one thing. Kenner is effective in engaging his audience when he shows viewers an animation of animals coming into a farm house from an assembly line. Kenner was hoping that people would be alarmed with how our food is now be raised and produced. Take the Tyson Company who is the biggest meat packing company in the world. The food industry because of mass production has changed how a chicken is raised. Kenner provides a logical visual example showing his viewers that birds are being raised and slaughtered at half the time they were 50 years ago. The visual demonstration of redesigning the chicken to make the breast larger was meant to draw on his viewer’s emotions as well as bringing a sense of urgency to the cause. Kenner went on to explain how “farmers today don’t own their birds, a company like Tyson owns them from the day they are dropped off until they are slaughtered”. Kenner wants to come off authoritative and interviews Richard Lobb, from the National Chicken Council. Lobb provides sufficient information on how big companies like Tyson have taken over the industry. Lobb says, “in a way we are not producing chickens, we are producing food” (Food Inc.). He goes on to tell us, how the system is highly mechanized and all of the