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Chicken Salad Chick

Chicken Salad Chick's Florida stores average -0.41 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.55 to -0.24), below the county baseline. Rank 6 of 9 chicken brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.41vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.55 to -0.24
0.77 vs 1.18raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face
38stores in 24 counties, 185 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Chicken Salad Chick is known for chicken salad. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

By fiscal year

0-0.98FY2016-17: -0.73 (n = 23)16-17FY2017-18: -0.98 (n = 21)17-18FY2018-19: -0.81 (n = 30)18-19FY2019-20: -0.34 (n = 34)19-20FY2020-21: -0.69 (n = 44)20-21FY2021-22: -0.51 (n = 51)21-22FY2022-23: -0.54 (n = 58)22-23FY2023-24: -0.62 (n = 61)23-24FY2024-25: -0.42 (n = 56)24-25FY2025-26: -0.20 (n = 68)25-26FY2026-27: -0.24 (n = 38) partial year26-27*

Relative to the county baseline, first visits of routine inspections. Open circle and * = fiscal year in progress (data as of 2026-11-09). Hover a point for n.

Most-cited violation codes

Citations per 100 routine inspections, Chicken Salad Chick vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 185). Descriptions are DBPR's.
CodeDBPR descriptionChicken Salad ChickFloridaRatio
22Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean35.743.60.82x
03Food Out of Temperature34.135.00.97x
53Food management certification valid / Employee training verification21.121.11.00x
29Plumbing installed and maintained18.416.91.09x
08Food protection, cross-contamination17.348.10.36x

Outcomes

9.7% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)
0.00% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)
100%of 36 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

No Chicken Salad Chick store appears in DBPR's weekly closure extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06).

Other chicken brands

Ranked chicken brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
RankBrandvs county95% intervalStores
1KFC-0.71-0.77 to -0.65239
2Chick-fil-A-0.67-0.73 to -0.61262
3Wingstop-0.63-0.71 to -0.55162
4Pollo Tropical-0.52-0.61 to -0.43132
5Popeyes-0.42-0.49 to -0.34213
6Chicken Salad Chick-0.41-0.55 to -0.2438
7Zaxby's-0.27-0.39 to -0.13122
8Chicken Kitchen-0.20-0.40 to +0.0133
9PDQ+0.06-0.16 to +0.3052

Chicken Salad Chick elsewhere

Store-level matching: a store counts for Chicken Salad Chick when its DBPR business name matches the reviewed aliases in InspectLens's brand list. Co-branded units (for example KFC with Taco Bell) are not counted for either brand.