Chicken Salad Chick is THE place for chicken salad lovers to rejoice! We’ve taken this Southern favorite to a whole new level with over 12 flavors of chicken salad served from the heart.
Chicken Salad Chick is THE place for chicken salad lovers to rejoice! We’ve taken this Southern favorite to a whole new level with 12 flavors of chicken salad served from the heart. We make our delicious chicken salad by hand every morning, using only premium chicken tenderloin. Our recipes are crafted with the perfect combination of sweet and savory ingredients and our secret blend of spices and seasoning. Beyond chicken salad, our fans rave about our fresh side items (especially our grape salad and broccoli salad!), our homemade pimento cheese, gourmet soups & seasonal desserts. We don’t take ourselves too seriously at the Chick and our hospitality is sure to please. Whether you’re catching up with friends and family or just grabbing a quick bite, Chicken Salad Chick is your neighborhood destination to sit back, relax, and enjoy some delicious food. Why? Because we believe that good food brings people together and nourishes the soul.
Hi, my name is Stacy Brown. I'm one of the founders of Chicken Salad Chick and my goal is to cover this country with the best chicken salad in the South. Yes, she said chicken salad and for her, it's a passion. Well, I was absolutely obsessed with chicken salad as a cons It was just something that I would seek out in every restaurant. If it was on the menu, I was going to order it. And that developed, it became part of a perfect storm for me. The perfect storm was a divorce, three small kids to take care of, and her discovery that the health department frowned upon her selling the chicken salad she made in her home in Auburn, Alabama. So the house behind me, this is where it all started. And this is where the health department shut me down. One time, close down the chicken salad home business or take it up a notch. She went for it. And she and her now late husband, Kevin, opened a scrappy little takeout joint. We said, okay, we're going to sell this by the pound, but we're going to make sandwiches just to go. But they hit some snags in the beginning, Why doesn'this work? Because people are ripping the doors off of the hinges to get in here and get this food, but because we didn't have the systems in place, we couldn't get ahead. But with some new systems and standardized processes in place, the business took off. And now eight years later, it's in the top 50 of Inc's fastest growing businesses in 2016, with a three year growth of just over 6,000 percent. Come on in, y'all, ladies. We have a wonderful new flavor to try today, Lawrence Lemon Basil, if you haven'tried it. And those simple sandwiches changed too. We have 15 different flavors of chicken salad. All of our chicken salads are named after real people that have impacted my late husband's life and mine. So Buffalo Barkley, Bancy Nancy, Halapena Holly, Jazzy Julie. And while the chicken salad'still the star of the show, with 15 different flavors, it's in good company. We have something for everyone now. We have expanded our menu to include several items that are not just chicken salad, but that fall into that wonderful southern traditional menu. And the cravings for this type of restaurant took on a life of its own too. We became a well-oiled machine. People were coming in the door asking for chicken salad chicks in their communities, which led to franchising. And the growth has just been absolutely organic since. With over 60 franchises and nine company stores, it's pretty heady stuff for a former stay-at-home mom. But to Stacy Brown, the recipe for success? Simple. I believe the keys to the success of chicken salad chicks are craving products. People are ripping the doors off the hinges to get in here and we are living our purpose every day because we believe it. We spread joy, we enrich lives and we serve others and that's what we're here to do. So basically a little chicken salad for the soul. Holly for first CNN.
