50 free Chick-fil-A trivia questions with answers. Chick-fil-A is the fast-food chain that sells more per restaurant than any other in America while staying shut one day a week. This quiz covers how it got there: Truett Cathy's tiny 1946 diner near an Atlanta car plant, the pressure fryer that made a chicken sandwich as fast as a burger, the 1967 mall food-court opening, and the cows that have been misspelling 'chicken' on billboards since 1995. Easy questions cover the day the doors stay closed, the pickles on the sandwich and the oil the chicken is cooked in. Harder ones dig into which breakfast chain once sold the sandwich under licence, where the signature sauce was really invented, the ad agency behind the cows, the Peach Bowl's origins and the company's short-lived restaurants in South Africa and England. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia or the company's own pages, and the citation sits under each question, so you can settle a drive-through argument on the spot. Good for road trips, office trivia and anyone who has ever answered 'thank you' with 'my pleasure'.
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Q 01Truett Cathy's first restaurant, the 1946 Dwarf Grill, took its name from what?
Its small size
The tiny diner later became the Dwarf House, and the company still runs a handful of Dwarf House restaurants around metro Atlanta with fried okra and cornbread on the menu.
Q 02In which Atlanta suburb did Truett Cathy open his first restaurant in 1946?
Hapeville
The town sits beside Hartsfield-Jackson airport, and the original diner drew much of its trade from a car plant across the road.
Q 03The first restaurant under the chain's own name opened in an Atlanta mall food court in which year?
1967
Until then the sandwich had been licensed out to other eateries; those deals were pulled once the company had a store of its own.
Q 04That first dedicated restaurant opened in 1967 in the food court of which Atlanta shopping mall?
Greenbriar
The mall store outlived its founder, staying open for 56 years before quietly closing in May 2023.
Q 05What is the capital 'A' at the end of the company name meant to signify?
Grade A top-quality chicken
The 'fil' part is a play on how Americans say 'filet', so the whole name reads as a boast about a top-grade chicken fillet.
Q 06What did Truett Cathy find in 1961 that cooked a chicken fillet as fast as a hamburger?
A pressure fryer
He registered the Chick-fil-A name soon after; the flagship sandwich is still cooked that way today.
Q 07Between 1964 and 1967 the sandwich was licensed to over fifty other eateries, including which breakfast chain?
Waffle House
The concession stands of the brand-new Houston Astrodome also sold it before the company pulled all outside licences in 1967.
Q 08The chain's first freestanding restaurant, on North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta, opened in which year?
1986
For its first two decades the company was almost entirely a mall food-court operation; drive-throughs now bring in up to 60 percent of sales.
Q 09The company is headquartered in which Georgia city?
College Park
The company itself calls the campus the Support Center and describes it as being in Atlanta.
Q 10On which day of the week is every restaurant in the chain closed?
Sunday
Truett Cathy made the call in 1946 after years of working seven days a week in 24-hour diners.
Q 11Which advertising agency created the 'Eat Mor Chikin' slogan in 1995?
The Richards Group
The Dallas agency kept the account for 22 years before the chain moved its advertising in 2016.
Q 12The cows first painted 'Eat Mor Chikin' on an Atlanta billboard in which year?
1995
The first execution was a three-dimensional billboard of one cow standing on another's back to reach the sign.
Q 13What breed of dairy cow stars in the chain's advertising?
Holstein
The black-and-white cows argue, on billboards and water towers, that people should eat chicken instead of them.
Q 21The chain's waffle-cut potato fries were first rolled out in which year?
1985
They arrived 18 years after the first restaurant and have overtaken the flagship sandwich as the most-ordered thing on the menu.
Q 22As of 2018, what was the single most-ordered item on the menu?
Waffle fries
Soft drinks came second and nuggets third, pushing the sandwich that built the company down to fourth place.
Q 23When nuggets debuted in 1982, they were sold as a box of how many pieces?
6
They were born because customers kept asking Operators to cut the sandwich chicken into bite-sized pieces.
Q 14The cows replaced which earlier chicken mascot, still lurking in the logo as the letter C?
Doodles
Look closely at the logo's C: the flourish on top is the old bird's comb.
Q 15Why was the cow campaign temporarily halted on January 1, 2004?
A mad cow disease scare
The company did not want its cows to look as if they were cashing in on a food-safety panic; the ads returned a few months later.
Q 16After 22 years with the agency that invented the cows, the chain moved its advertising in 2016 to which agency?
McCann New York
The cows survived the switch and remain the face of the brand three decades on.
Q 17The chain's flagship Original sandwich is cooked in 100 percent refined what?
Peanut oil
The refining process removes the proteins that trigger most peanut allergies, which is why the company says the oil is safe for many allergy sufferers.
Q 18What garnish comes on the Original sandwich as standard?
Two dill pickle slices
Lettuce, tomato and cheese are add-ons for the deluxe version; the pickles are the only thing between the chicken and the buttered bun.
Q 19The founder's much-repeated claim to have invented which menu staple has been shown to be false?
The chicken sandwich
It was, however, the first national chain to make a fast fried chicken sandwich its flagship item, which is where the trademarked slogan 'We Didn't Invent the Chicken' comes from.
Q 20The chain's waffle-cut potato fries are cooked in which oil?
Canola
Only the chicken gets the nut oil; the fries are finished with a sprinkle of sea salt.
Q 24Which of these dipping sauces was among the original trio introduced in 1984?
Polynesian
Honey Mustard and Barbeque were the other two; the sweet-and-sour Polynesian is still the second-most-ordered sauce in the chain.
Q 25The chain's signature namesake dip, Chick-fil-A Sauce, joined the menu in which year?
2006
Its smoky, tangy mustard flavour has been read as a mash-up of honey mustard and barbecue, and bottles reached supermarket shelves nationwide in 2021.
Q 26Wikipedia records that the signature namesake sauce was invented in 1983 at a restaurant in which state?
Virginia
A sign at the Spotsylvania Towne Centre restaurant in Fredericksburg claims the honour, a long way from the chain's Georgia home.
Q 27Which dip did customers order more than any other in 2024?
Chick-fil-A Sauce
The sweet-and-sour one came second, and Sweet & Spicy Sriracha finished last of the seven.
Q 28In February 2023 the chain launched its first meat-free sandwich, built around which vegetable?
Cauliflower
The breaded, pressure-cooked floret was served on the same buttered bun with the same pickles as the original.
Q 29The chain has sponsored Atlanta's Peach Bowl college football game since which year?
1997
The bowl dates to 1968 and became one of the College Football Playoff's New Year's Six games in 2014.
Q 30From 2006 to 2013 the Atlanta bowl game Chick-fil-A sponsors dropped 'Peach' and was officially called what?
Chick-fil-A Bowl
The peach came back in 2014, the same year the game joined the College Football Playoff rotation.