First Chick-fil-A President and COO Dan Cathy, son of company founder S. Dan and his wife, Rhonda, have two grown sons.If Chick-fil-A was hoping the controversy over the donations its charitable arm gives to anti-gay Christian groups was going to go away, this was probably not the way to go about it. The Cathy family runs WinShape Foundation, a non-profit which supports a group of Southern Baptist ministries.
Forbes also ranked Chick-fil-A as the 4th most inspiring company in the country following a survey of more than 2,000 consumers evaluating 25 companies.ĭan holds honorary doctorates from the University of West Georgia, Anderson College, Carver Bible College, and Pepperdine University. In the 2014 Glassdoor Employee's Choice Awards, Chick-fil-A ranked among the top 50 Best Places to Work in the nation. His actions stem from a belief that working in the field provides a clearer understanding of the ever-evolving wants and needs of Chick-fil-A customers, and leading from the front line also enables him to personally convey his servant spirit to the chain's 70,000-plus employees. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Georgia Southern University in 1975, then began working for his father's company as Director of Operations.Īs President and CEO, Dan chooses to spend the majority of his time traveling to the chain's 1900+ restaurants and interacting with Chick-fil-A's committed team of restaurant Operators and team members.
Dan began doing radio commercials for his father's original Dwarf House restaurant in Hapeville, Georgia in the early 1960s. Daniel Truett Cathy is an American business executive and currently the Chairman, President and CEO of the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, one of the nation's largest family-owned businesses founded by his late father, S.
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