Talk of the Town: Petal Area Chamber of Commerce
Jul 7, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
On their first date, Annah Johnson's husband told her they'd own a Chick-fil-A one day. She laughed it off — she didn't even cook at home. Years later, sitting in a Chick-fil-A interview meant for the…
happen.
Wow.
It was a
But the city, I mean, I tell every orientation we have at our store, I tell the kids, I ask them, hey, who ate on the food truck? And a lot of them were like kindergartners at that point, you know.
And I said, you're why we're here, you know, because that's how important it was that pedal supports pedal.
just the best.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you said, I heard something whenever you were telling that last part about the land, how does all that work? I think that people might think that there's like a geo, like a home office and you just kind of work for them or they do all the work on the back end and you just run it.
How, how does it work? so i am the owner of chick-fil-a it's like any other franchise i pay for the rights to operate chick-fil-a um and sell chicken now i have to follow their rules similar to mcdonald's xp's we have certain menu items we have certain price points those things but marketing wise we do all of our own marketing now we have like guidelines yeah of course um i do all my own hiring All of our employees that are team members, as we call them in our store, most of them are your kids in pedal.
We do have some college kids out of William Carey, JC, Pearl River, all those.
I can't get any more pedal than we are because we we live and die by the school schedule and all that stuff.
And then we create events for small families or small families with small children.
So Chick-fil-A doesn't come in and go, hey, I'm going to write a marketing check to sponsor.
happen.
Wow.
It was a
But the city, I mean, I tell every orientation we have at our store, I tell the kids, I ask them, hey, who ate on the food truck? And a lot of them were like kindergartners at that point, you know.
And I said, you're why we're here, you know, because that's how important it was that pedal supports pedal.
just the best.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you said, I heard something whenever you were telling that last part about the land, how does all that work? I think that people might think that there's like a geo, like a home office and you just kind of work for them or they do all the work on the back end and you just run it.
How, how does it work? so i am the owner of chick-fil-a it's like any other franchise i pay for the rights to operate chick-fil-a um and sell chicken now i have to follow their rules similar to mcdonald's xp's we have certain menu items we have certain price points those things but marketing wise we do all of our own marketing now we have like guidelines yeah of course um i do all my own hiring All of our employees that are team members, as we call them in our store, most of them are your kids in pedal.
We do have some college kids out of William Carey, JC, Pearl River, all those.
I can't get any more pedal than we are because we we live and die by the school schedule and all that stuff.
And then we create events for small families or small families with small children.
So Chick-fil-A doesn't come in and go, hey, I'm going to write a marketing check to sponsor.
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