Company profile
- Industry
- Fast food restaurant chain
- Headquarters
- Atlanta, United States
- Ownership
- Family-owned
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Decisions on record
One verified Decision Case on Chick-fil-A, and the casebook each one belongs to.
| Fork date | Decision type | What Chick-fil-A chose | Where it stood | The story | Casebook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Pricing Lens | Below-competitor inflation | dipped 1.7% from 2024 to 2025 (2025) | Read the story → | The Pricing Lens Casebook → |
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People & ControlThe RefusalWhat does your doctrine refuse, and can you pay for it in a bad year?See the pack →Moat & CompetitionThe Moat AnatomyWhat would it actually cost a challenger to take your customer?See the pack →Business ModelThe Pricing Model ChangeWhat does changing how you charge cost before it starts paying?See the pack →
The analyses
Culture Doctrine · People & Control
Closed on Sundays, Still the Highest-Grossing Fast Food in America: The Strategy Hidden in Chick-fil-A's Culture
Chick-fil-A throws away one day of sales a week - and earns more per restaurant than any chain in the country, more than double McDonald's. The closed-Sunday rule looks like a values-driven cost. It's actually the keystone of a culture doctrine that produces the best unit economics in fast food.
7 min
The Moat Anatomy · Moat & Competition
Chick-fil-A Runs a Quarter of McDonald's Stores and Earns Double Per Store. That's Not Luck.
Chick-fil-A's freestanding stores averaged about $9.3M in 2024 — more than double McDonald's $3.96M average unit volume — on roughly 3,109 U.S. locations versus McDonald's 13,559. The number isn't a product of better food. It's the output of a franchise contract built backwards on purpose.
7 min
The Premium Play · Business Model
Chick-fil-A Quietly Raised Prices 55%. Almost Nobody Walked Out the Door.
Everyone calls Chick-fil-A premium pricing. The real move is below-competitor inflation: prices rose ~55% from 2014 to 2024 while McDonald's rose ~100%. Scarcity does the work that discounts can't.
7 min
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