Chicken Salad Chick reached profitability in 2009, one year after opening
Stacy Brown · Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018) · Dec 30, 2019 · at 28:16
Stacy Brown, founder of Chicken Salad Chick, recounts the timeline of opening their first restaurant location in Auburn, Alabama, and reaching profitability.
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“So we opened January seventh of 2008, and we were making money by 2009.”
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