Restaurants & Food Service · Chicken & Wings
Church's Chicken Franchises for Sale
A quick-service fried chicken restaurant built around a compact 1,000 to 1,400 square foot drive-thru box. A legacy brand with a large company-owned base alongside franchisees.
Brand Performance Snapshot
Franchised and company-owned unit counts for 2023 through 2025, as reported in the franchisor's FDD.
Existing Church's Chicken Franchises for Sale
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Church's Chicken Franchise Model Overview
Church's Chicken restaurants serve original and spicy fried chicken, classic sides and honey butter biscuits for lunch and dinner through a quick-service format that leans on drive-thru, to-go and delivery rather than dining room traffic. The current Blaze prototype is a small freestanding building, with conversion and end-cap formats available at lower cost, and the investment is a seven-figure ground-up build dominated by site work, construction and equipment, with real estate on top. Royalty and advertising each run 5% of sales, so the combined take is heavier than many QSR peers. Every franchisee signs a development agreement even for one unit, and an operating principal with at least 10% equity must run the restaurants full time and live within reasonable driving distance of one. A continuity group holding 51% and all 5% owners sign personal guarantees. The system has roughly 720 franchised and 160 company-owned domestic restaurants; franchised count declined through 2024 and ticked up in 2025, and transfers have been concentrated in Texas and Georgia.
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