re: So how DOES Chick-fil-a hire their employees?

They also offer college tuition assistance to all of their employees.

I’d be happy and smiling to everyone as well as a college kid working at Chik Fil A if I knew they were helping to pay for college.

Chick fil-a Thunderdome

Two candidates enter. One employee leaves.

It’s less common and archaic...but it’s a valid spelling

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How do they attract the best?

Why can’t any other fast food chains replicate it?

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Most fast food places hire anybody who drops an application in the box and their is very little training or management presence.

Chik Fil A can be selective on who they hire because of where they advertise employment. ( Usually on high school / college campuses ) and they have a pretty good training program from what I understand. Then to top it off their is always someone in charge in the store. I don't have the numbers to back it up but I would wager the turnover at Chik Fil A is very low for the fast food industry so they are able to keep well trained employees for longer than expected.

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I started the History of English podcast this past week. Thanks, the first few episodes were interesting and informative.

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I also said they needed to go public so I could buy some stock.

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Going public would be the end of it. Stockholders only care about profits.

Because most fast food places are stuck in the herd mentality and think of Labor costs the wrong way.

There are many valid comparisons between how to do it right verse wrong.

CFA and Canes over Popeyes
Costco over Sams.
Whole Foods over Winn Dixie
Buc-ees over all other places.

The top places pay more and train more but also EXPECT more. If one were to be able to calculate employee work product per dollar of wage I would guarantee the CFAs of the world are getting far more value. What is ironic is that most of the places that PAY more already do not want to raise the minimum wage. They know that will hurt their ability to reward better work.

They don’t recruit the best. Good, quality companies attract the best. CFA attracts the best candidates because it is those who WANT to work for CFA.

Their employees are a reflection of their operations. I think here are the things that help:

1) Their GMs are treated like owners (I say like because the 10K investment, and the fact they can be replaced, doesn't really make them a true owner to me) and are in the store and have unlimited earning potential. They are financially motivated to have a great location.

2) Their menu is more simple / straighforward than a lot of other places (Not counting Cane's). They do chicken. They aren't trying to do burgers, and chicken, and fish, and flavored coffee, etc.

Also, their most popular item comes two ways: With pickles or without pickles. Most of the condiments are handed to the customer to apply themselves. That not only speeds up the process, it cuts down on the work needed and the chance for error.

3) Being off on Sundays means they can hire less people. The less people you need to hire, the more selective you can be.

4) I would say 99% of their non-management crew are either high school / college kids looking to earn money / have fun, or people who are only on crew for a short time until they become a manager. Compare this to other fast food places, where many of their employees are in their 20s - 40s and simply are working on crew because they have no other skills.

5) They don't have stockholders / Wall Street to please. I'm sure the Cathey family loves money as much as they love the Lord. But being privately owned, they can invest more money into locations and salaries if they want to and not have to deal with stock analysts bitching about it.

6) They have enough employees working so they can easily handle a crowd. And when it slows down for a moment, they send their employees to clean, pick up trash, etc.

7) They oversupply their stores. I've never seen a CFA run out of anything, ever.

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They recruit heavily at the "prosperity churches" and the owners demand a kickback from all of the tithing revenue the church gets. It's kinda like the doctor/pharma rep kickback scheme only done with dead chickens instead of opioids. It started hundreds of years ago in New Orleans as a voodoo/dead chicken ritual, then it was expanded by the antichrist ( Joel Olesteen) in the early 2000's.

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The only part of this post that has any truth is...

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