Approximately 20% of the restaurants are company-owned, while the other 80% are franchised. The owner carefully chose integral franchise managers to ensure they fully uphold the chick culture. Recently, inc. ranked the business 37th among the 500 lists of the fastest growing privately held businesses. In addition to having more than 200 restaurants spread across 17 states in the US, chicken salad hopes to reach 300 in 2022 due to quick expansion.