Single-operator read of Chick-fil-A, a private brand. The per-unit AUV row is its own layer and is not to be mixed, summed, or ranked against systemwide sales or store count. Figures are FDD-derived via S2 trade reporting; the per-unit AUV cohort is treated as a screening proxy. Source: S2, QSR/FDD-derived reporting. Information only, not investment advice.
Chick-fil-A is the rare private restaurant brand where the most useful scale signal is not a public-company number. FoodBud reads it first as a per-unit output case.
The cleanest basis is the FY2025 domestic traditional restaurant AUV cohort. In QSR's FDD-derived reporting, roughly ~2,302 domestic freestanding or drive-thru-only restaurants open for at least a full calendar year produced a median annual sales volume of $9.0877M and an average annual sales volume of $9.1612M.
That is the teaching point. The AUV number is not the same object as the systemwide-sales row. Chick-fil-A's total 2025 systemwide sales were $23.9182B, and its year-end footprint was 2,863 total outlets — but those describe the whole private brand system. They sit beside the AUV cohort; they are never a denominator for it, and the AUV is never summed into or ranked against them.
The accounting basis is separate again. QSR's FDD-derived report puts FY2025 consolidated revenue at $10.3427B — company accounting context only, not terminal consumer demand, and not a substitute for the systemwide-sales badge.
Because Chick-fil-A is private, the article avoids the public-market reflex entirely: there is no public-market valuation here, the row is not live-run eligible, and the source tier stays visible because FoodBud is using QSR's FDD-derived reporting rather than a primary FDD held in the repo.
The right read is a small stack of separate basis boxes. The AUV row says how hard a mature domestic traditional (freestanding) restaurant works; the systemwide-sales row says how large the brand system is; the revenue row says what the company reports as accounting revenue. Each answers a different question, on its own basis.
All figures are FDD-derived via S2 trade reporting (FoodBud holds no primary FDD): the per-unit AUV cohort is treated as a screening proxy, while the reported aggregates (outlets, systemwide sales, consolidated revenue) are source-backed at S2. None are live-run eligible.
| Metric | Value | Basis (`scale_basis`) | Precision | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic traditional median AUV | $9.0877M | per_unit_auv_median_domestic_traditional (freestanding / drive-thru-only) | FDD-reported via S2 | screening-proxy | S2 [^cfa] |
| Domestic traditional average AUV | $9.1612M | per_unit_auv_average_domestic_traditional | FDD-reported via S2 | screening-proxy | S2 [^cfa] |
| AUV cohort count | ~2,302 | domestic_traditional_auv_cohort_count (the AUV denominator) | approx. reported | screening-proxy | S2 [^cfa] |
| Total outlets (2025) | 2,863 | total_outlet_count (footprint context) | FDD-reported via S2 | source-backed (S2) | S2 [^cfa] |
| Systemwide sales (2025) | $23.9182B | gmv_or_system_sales_usd (system context — not the AUV basis) | FDD-reported via S2 | source-backed (S2) | S2 [^cfa] |
| Consolidated revenue (2025) | $10.3427B | consolidated_revenue_usd (accounting context) | FDD-reported via S2 | source-backed (S2) | S2 [^cfa] |
[^cfa]: S2 — QSR Magazine (Apr 7 2026), FDD-derived reporting of Chick-fil-A's 2025 figures: chick-fil-a-dials-up-expansion-as-sales-near-24-billion (opens in new tab). The ~2,302-restaurant domestic traditional cohort (open ≥ a full calendar year) had median annual sales volume $9,087,673 and average $9,161,239; 2,863 total outlets; $23,918,208,000 systemwide sales; $10,342,734,669 consolidated revenue. FoodBud does not hold the primary FDD, so these are S2 screening-proxy rows. Basis guard locked via FoodBud saas-export-2026-06-08-gh091 (S2).
per_unit_auv_*) — it measures one mature domestic traditional restaurant's annual sales. Do not mix it with, sum it into, or rank it against systemwide sales or store count.Source: S2, QSR/FDD-derived reporting; S2, FoodBud gh091 locked export. Information only, not investment advice.