What does Chick-fil-A do with surplus food?

Chick-fil-A Operators across the country are embracing the benefits of composting for some food waste, which helps reduce emissions and can lower their cost for trash removal. It typically takes about six months to a year for fresh food scraps from a Chick-fil-A^®  restaurant to transform into compost that can be added to soil to improve its nutrient health. Protecting our foods in commercially compostable packaging is more sustainable and another way we continue to reduce our environmental impact. We also compost certain food waste at our three U.S. Support Center locations.

Today, nearly 2,500 Chick-fil-A restaurants take part in the program, which continues to grow each year. To date, our partner organizations have served more than 42 million meals to those in need from food donated through the
Chick-fil-A Shared Table^® program.

Through our corporate social responsibility strategy, we are committed to caring for our planet. The company surpassed its 2025 goal to divert 25 million pounds of food waste from landfills one year ahead of schedule, diverting 61.6M pounds of food waste from landfills. Read our latest Global Impact Report on the CSR page about how we’re working to be good stewards of the planet and help protect the world we share.