Restaurants & Food Service · Chicken & Wings
Chick-fil-A Franchises for Sale
Chick-fil-A's Operator program is not a conventional franchise. Chick-fil-A owns the restaurant, real estate and equipment, and one full-time individual runs it for a nominal fee.
Brand Performance Snapshot
Franchised and company-owned unit counts for 2023 through 2025, as reported in the franchisor's FDD.
Existing Chick-fil-A Franchises for Sale
Operating Chick-fil-A territories listed for sale by their owners or brokers, reviewed before publishing.
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Chick-fil-A Franchise Model Overview
Chick-fil-A Restaurants are quick-service restaurants built around a boneless breast of chicken sandwich, operated as free-standing, drive-thru-only, mall, in-line or captive-venue units and closed on Sundays. The Operator program is structurally unlike a franchise. Chick-fil-A secures the site, buys or leases the real estate, builds the restaurant and owns most of the equipment; the Operator signs as an individual, pays a nominal initial fee that is partly a working-capital deposit, then pays monthly rent, equipment rental and insurance out of gross receipts, which Chick-fil-A collects and accounts for. Advertising currently costs nothing. The Operator must give full-time personal effort and directly supervise the restaurant; passive or investor ownership is not available, and additional restaurants are offered only at Chick-fil-A's discretion. The agreement runs year to year, can be ended by Chick-fil-A without cause on 30 days' notice, and cannot be sold or transferred to anyone but the Operator's own wholly owned entity. The system is large and growing and reports zero transfers.
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