{"id":22000,"date":"2026-10-09T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:07:14","slug":"chick-fil-as-ceo-wants-his-team-to-have-a-healthy-dose-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/chick-fil-as-ceo-wants-his-team-to-have-a-healthy-dose-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Chick-fil-A\u2019s CEO Wants His Team to Have a \u2018Healthy Dose of Fear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The chicken franchise<\/a> wars are getting extra crispy. Chicken chain sales grew 5.3% in 2025, compared with 3% for the restaurant industry overall and 1.5% for burger chains, according to Technomic data cited by Restaurant Business<\/a>. Raising Cane\u2019s<\/a>, Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken<\/a> and Wingstop<\/a> have all helped fuel the fowl.<\/p>\n

Now McDonald\u2019s wants in. The Golden Arches\u2019 new $8.5 billion modernization plan <\/a>includes a goal of gaining 1.5 points of chicken market share by 2030. It\u2019s already testing hand-breaded chicken in the U.S. and Ireland.<\/p>\n

Chick-fil-A <\/a>CEO Andrew Cathy, whose chain leads the category, says he welcomes the pressure. \u201cI love competition. It just makes us better,\u201d the former high school coach tells Restaurant Business.<\/p>\n

Still, Cathy says his biggest worry is moving too slowly. To keep from getting comfortable, he wants his team to have a \u201chealthy dose of fear.\u201d His plan for staying on top is to stick to basics like accurate orders, good food and warm hospitality. That\u2019s one reason Chick-fil-A has no plans to replace human order takers with AI. <\/p>\n

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The chicken franchise wars are getting extra crispy. Chicken chain sales grew 5.3% in 2025, compared with 3% for the restaurant industry overall and 1.5% for burger chains, according to Technomic data cited by Restaurant Business. Raising Cane\u2019s, Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken and Wingstop have all helped fuel the fowl. Now McDonald\u2019s wants in. The Golden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/chick-fil-a-1026-g-623120422.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22002,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions\/22002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}