The majority of Chick-fil-A's are not renting their space. Most Chick-fil-A locations are built new on free-standing property physically owned outright by corpo

The majority of Chick-fil-A's are not renting their space. Most Chick-fil-A locations are built new on free-standing property physically owned outright by corporate headquarters and franchised to Owner-Operators with a revenue sharing model. The "Business Model" section of their Wikipedia page has more info on this if you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A (BTW, it also says they gross an average of $4.8 million per year per location, in 2016 at least. That's the highest sales of any Fast Food franchise in the US, vs the next in line, Whataburger, at only $2.7M per location per year. So being closed on Sunday doesn't seem like a big issue for them.)