2011 CHICK-FIL-A FUN FACTS

2011 CHICK-FIL-A FUN FACTS
According to the CME Daily Livestock Report, it is estimated that the average American chowed down
82 pounds of chicken per person in 2010. Some interesting Chick-fil-A statistics are noted below.
Chick-fil-A ® Sandwich Totals for 2010:
• Chick-fil-A sold more than 282 million Chick-fil-A ® Sandwiches, that is 537 a minute or almost 9
sandwiches per second.
• Laid end to end, they would span 21 thousand miles, just shy of wrapping around the Earth’s
circumference.
• That is more than enough sandwiches to reach from Boston to Sydney, Australia and back, or
to wrap around the equator of the moon three times.
• If you stack the Chicken Sandwiches one on top of the other, the stack would be more than
8,901 miles tall! That is enough to make 23 stacks that reach the Hubble Telescope (380 miles
in space), with a few sandwiches left over. That is enough Chicken Sandwiches to make more
than 44 stacks that reach the International Space Station (approximately 200 miles from Earth).
Chick-fil-A Product Totals for 2010:
• Chick-fil-A sold more than 58 million Chick-fil-A ® Spicy Chicken Sandwiches from June to
December 2010, that is 110 a minute or almost 2 sandwiches per second.
• If a brick magically appeared every time someone ate a Chick-fil-A Nugget, we’d be ready to
build another Great Wall of China in two years.
• Sometimes the final touch is the first thing you notice. We use 2.4 million cans of whipped
cream a year to put the topping on our Hand-Spun Milkshakes.
• To get that just-right taste, cucumber slices soak for three days before ripening into the perfect
pickles for Chick-fil-A Sandwiches. Some things are worth waiting for!
• Here’s something juicy you can share with your friends. It takes four pints of freshly squeezed
lemon juice to make one urn of Chick-fil-A ® Lemonade.
• A deck of cards is five ounces of fun. A small cell phone is five ounces of convenience. A Yogurt
Parfait with creamy, low-fat yogurt is five ounces of bliss.
• While we take seven minutes to freshly brew your Iced Tea, you can take as long as you would
like to enjoy it!

• Raisins are such a sweet touch. We use an entire case to make about 13 thousand side orders
of our signature Carrot & Raisin Salad.
• Who can say no to the Fudge Nut Brownie? Last year, the “yes” vote at Chick-fil-A was a
resounding 13.6 million.
• How many Chick-fil-A Waffle Potato Fries ® does it take to keep our customers smiling? Well, if
we had a scale large enough, they would equal the weight of 17 thousand elephants!
• With guests enjoying 84 million packets a year, the creation of the Chick-fil-A Sauce must have
hit the spot.
• One batch of Carrot & Raisin Salad contains 112 ounces of carrots. Good for your eyes. Great
for your taste buds.
• It takes a potato about 115 days to grow and become Chick-fil-A Waffle Potato Fries. How
many other things do you know that reach their greatest potential in only four months?
• We top off our Hand-Spun Milkshakes with 124 thousand pounds of Maraschino cherries. You
don’t even have to say “Pretty please!”
• A really great pie needs a really great crust. We use over 189 thousand boxes of cookie wafers
each year to make our Chick-fil-A ® Lemon Pie.
• A strawberry has 200 seeds. Who knew? What everyone does know is how good strawberries
are in our Fruit Cups, Yogurt Parfaits, and Chick-fil-A ® Chargrilled & Fruit Salads.
• In 2010, 261 million people shared their profiles on Facebook. That’s one profile for every bun it
takes to make our sandwiches for a year.
• Give us one pound of chocolate cookie pieces, and we’ll give you and your friends 384 large
Cookies & Cream Hand-Spun Milkshakes.
• Extra pickles, please! We use more than 523 million pickles a year to provide those two
signature pickles on your Chick-fil-A sandwich.
• If you could stack all of the packets of Chick-fil-A Barbecue Sauce used in one year without
them tumbling over, they would reach 879 miles high.
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