The first Chik-fil-A was the Dwarf Grill (now the Dwarf House),
a restaurant opened by S. Truett Cathy, in 1946.
The restaurant is located in Hapeville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta,
near the location of the now-demolished Ford Atlanta Assembly Plant,
for many years a source of many of the restaurant’s patrons.
The restaurant in Greenbriar Mall didn’t open until 1967.
There was a great episode on the History Channel which presented the story of S. Truett Cathy. It talked about his Dwarf Grill, and how, shortly after the Atlanta airport was built, one day his delivery guy brought in several boxes of chicken breasts which Delta had ordered but rejected because they were too big for their airplane trays. Offered Cathy a super discount if he’d take the chicken.
Cathy was like “What am I gonna do with chicken breasts?”
The rest, as they say, is history...