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 2,000 Chick-fil-A restaurants take part in the program, which continues to grow each year. To date, our partner organizations have served more than 23 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. We have diverted more than 13.9 million pounds of restaurant food waste from landfills through food donation, composting, the use of anerobic digesters and more. Our goal is to divert 25 million pounds of restaurant food waste from landfills by 2025. 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.