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The Plot Chickens: Why Poultry Purveyors Are Proliferating Nationwide
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Commercial Observer
Yet just under 10 years (and a global pandemic) later, that little roadside stand, Dave’s Hot Chicken, operates some 400 locations globally.
Yet the chain’s $800 million in total 2024 sales and its $300,000 AUV finished dead last in QSR’s report.
“The menu you see [at Dave’s locations] in the Middle East is the menu that we have here,” he said.
Where many QSRs average around 2,000 to 3,000 square feet, Chick-fil-A locations often double that footprint.
“Chick-fil-A, Cane’s and In-N-Out in L.A. and Southern California in general, have driven rent prices … and it’s because they’ve stepped up in those markets.