Company Culture / Vision
Founded in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952, Church's Chicken® is a highly recognized brand name in the QSR sector and is one of the largest quick-service chicken concepts in the world. Church's Chicken® serves freshly prepared, high quality, flavorful chicken and tenders with signature sides and hand-made from scratch biscuits at low prices. Church's differentiates from its competitors in care and attention given in preparation of its products, easy to execute menu, and efficient operating systems. Church's is positioned as the Value Leader in the Chicken QSR category.
Benefits of owning THIS franchise
Church's has a singular focus on optimizing franchise profitability and return on invested capital. We have flexible real estate and construction programs, and a simple menu and operating system. Many existing QSR competitor locations can be easily converted into Church's locations, providing the opportunity for franchisees to realize lower real estate and construction costs. In addition to our freestanding Tower prototype building, Church's is introducing a modular building that can be constructed 30-60 days faster than the traditional model as well as a new kiosk design in two sizes for non-traditional locations such as colleges and universities, airports and travel plazas.
We provide our franchisees with comprehensive support for site selection and restaurant construction, training and field operations and marketing and product development. We involve our franchisees in an advisory capacity as we make major decisions about the future. The National Minority Franchising Initiative recognized Church's as one of the 50 Top Franchises for Minorities. In 2009 Church's has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Franchises for Franchisee Satisfaction by Franchise Business Review.
In 2008, Church's posted its fifth straight year of system-wide sales increases as global sales rose 5%. Church's Chicken also has the highest profit margin among any $1 billion restaurant chains at 26.3%. (see FDD Item 19 for details).
Church's System
As of March 2009, the Church's system consisted of more than 1,600 locations worldwide in 33 states and 21 countries, with system sales exceeding $1 billion.
What are we looking for in a new franchisee?
As the chain continues to grow, opportunities are available in new and existing markets. In addition to further expansion in the South, Southeast, and Southwest, Church's is also entering markets in California and the Pacific Northwest.
We are looking for candidates to franchise with us that have energy, enthusiasm, and a desire to help grow the brand. Restaurant experience is also a plus
