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It takes a potato about 115 days to grow to become Chick-fil-A® Potato Fries

The weight of Waffle Potato Fries Chick-fil-A® sold last year would equal 17,000 elephants

Chick-fil-A sold more than 282 million Chick-fil-A® Sandwiches, that is 537 a minute or almost 9 sandwiches per second.
Laid end to end, that is more than 22,253 miles of Chicken Sandwiches.

That is more than enough sandwiches to reach from Boston to Sydney, Australia and back, or to wrap around the equator of the moon three times.

If you stack the Chicken Sandwiches one on top of the other, the stack would be more than 8,901 miles tall! That is enough to make 23 stacks that reach the Hubble Telescope (380 miles in space), with a few sandwiches left over.

That is enough Chicken Sandwiches to make more than 44 stacks that reach the International Space Station (approximately 200 miles from Earth).

Chick-fil-A sold more than 58 million Chick-fil-A® Spicy Chicken Sandwiches from June to December 2010, that is 110 a minute or almost 2 sandwiches per second.

The amount of Chick-fil-A® Nuggets sold – 2.03 billion – would cover more than half of the earth's circumference.

Chick-fil-A used more than 340 million buns and more than 1.27 million gallons of pickles for its Original Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich, Chick-fil-A® Spicy Chicken Sandwich and Chick-fil-A® Chargrilled Chicken Sandwiches.

Chick-fil-A used more than 143 million lemons to make its freshly squeezed lemonade. That is enough lemon "juice" to fill nearly 952,000 10-gallon drink coolers at the Chick-fil-A Bowl!

Sep. 20, 2012 Chick-fil-A: Who We Are. A Response to Recent Controversy.

For many months now, Chick-fil-A’s corporate giving has been mischaracterized. And while our sincere intent has been to remain out of this political and social debate, events from Chicago this week have once again resulted in questions around our giving. For that reason, we want to provide some context and clarity around who we are, what we believe and our priorities in relation to corporate giving.

A part of our corporate commitment is to be responsible stewards of all that God has entrusted to us. Because of this commitment, Chick-fil-A’s giving heritage is focused on programs that educate youth, strengthen families and enrich marriages, and support communities. We will continue to focus our giving in those areas. Our intent is not to support political or social agendas.

As we have stated, the Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender. We will continue this tradition in the over 1,600 restaurants run by independent Owner/Operators.

For better understanding of our corporate giving, please click here to download the PDF document titled "Chick-fil-A: Who We Are."

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