Chick-fil-A generated $23.9 billion in US sales in 2025 while keeping its restaurants closed every Sunday. The chain has maintained the policy for nearly 80 years, giving employees a guaranteed day off each week.
CEO Andrew Cathy says the company will not change the practice, even if opening on Sundays could bring in more money.
In an interview with NBC’s Today , Cathy said he had never calculated how much revenue the company could earn by opening on Sundays.
Cathy, the grandson of founder S. For now, the chain appears content to keep Sundays off the calendar. Truett Cathy, became CEO in 2021, succeeding his father, Dan Cathy. Chick-fil-A’s US systemwide sales rose from $22.7 billion in 2024 to $23.9 billion in 2025, an increase of around 5%, according to QSR Magazine’s report on the company’s 2025 financial figures. Cathy said Chick-fil-A receives around 150,000 applications a year from people hoping to operate a franchise, while the company opens roughly 150 restaurants annually. Despite its growing sales, Cathy says the company has no intention of giving up a policy that has been part of its identity since 1946.
“I never have,” he said, explaining that the company had no plans to reconsider the policy because the day off was too important. He said being a privately held, family-owned business allowed Chick-fil-A to make decisions that benefited employees rather than focus only on maximising sales. “We’re not trying to scrape out every penny that we possibly can,” he said.
