Chick-fil-A Honored with goBeyondProfit 2022 Champion Award

Nation’s third-largest fast-food company honored for a legacy of generosity and commitment to caring for restaurant guests, employees and local communities

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--goBeyondProfit, a first-of-its-kind business leader initiative that highlights corporate generosity, today announced it has honored Georgia-based Chick-fil-A as a winner of the goBeyondProfit champion award for 2022.

Chick-fil-A and its Chairman Dan Cathy were nominated and selected for this award by fellow Georgia business leaders because of the organization’s success in consistently executing with care and generosity in the little things, those meaningful daily moments of service valued by Chick-fil-A culture across decades of generosity. Dan’s late father, Chick-fil-A Founder S. Truett Cathy, opened his first local restaurant in 1946 and the first Chick-fil-A in 1967.

“We have a mission statement to be the world's most caring company. What does it mean to be the world's most caring company? We know that really, it's the subtleties of a lot of behaviors that consistently happen all over the organization, embodied by leaders, lived out by leaders,” says Dan Cathy. “That leadership ripples throughout the whole organization, so that customers in drive-thru lines, in our dining rooms, and other places feel cared for through a lot of little things that we do.”

“goBeyondProfit Champion award winners like Chick-fil-A and Dan Cathy demonstrate exemplary leadership,” said goBeyondProfit President Megan McCamey. “They offer a road map for excellence in business generosity from daily operations to the contributions they make to improve the lives of everyone that comes in contact with their company.”

Past award winners include Gas South, Creature Comforts Brewing, H.J. Russell & Company, Aflac, W&A Engineering, Cox Enterprises, and Herschend Enterprises.

In an interview with goBeyondProfit, Dan Cathy shares insights into how Chick-fil-A has developed and nurtured a culture of generosity and care. See the full interview here: www.gobeyondprofit.org/champion