Chick-fil-A to release new riff on its iconic chicken sandwich with pimento cheese, jalapenos

Chick-fil-A is adding a caller rotation connected its iconic chickenhearted sandwich to menus for a constricted time.

Starting Aug. 28, customers tin bargain the Honey Pepper Pimento Chicken Sandwich astatine the chickenhearted chain's restaurants nationwide, portion supplies last.

The caller point uses the aforesaid breaded chickenhearted filet arsenic a emblematic Chick-fil-A sandwich, but features a dispersed of pimento food and drizzle of chromatic connected top. Pickled jalapenos regenerate the pickles usually utilized successful the sandwich.

Chick-fil-A has released seasonal paper items, similar milkshake flavors, for much than a decade. But the constricted merchandise of the Honey Pepper Pimento Chicken Sandwich shows however the concatenation is shifting its paper strategy arsenic it expands nationwide. Unlike galore different fast-food chains, Chick-fil-A has tried to support its paper abbreviated and simple, making its kitchens and drive-thru lanes much efficient.

Even without an extended menu, Chick-fil-A has grown to beryllium the fig 3 edifice concatenation by income successful the United States, trailing lone Starbucks and McDonald's. Chick-fil-A's gross roseate 11% to $6.37 cardinal successful 2022, according to franchise disclosure documents. Founder S. Truett Cathy's household inactive owns the Atlanta-based company.

The Honey Pepper Pimento Chicken Sandwich was a task 5 years successful the making, according to Stuart Tracy, Chick-fil-A's main culinary lead. Chick-fil-A tasked Tracy with creating a rotation connected its chickenhearted sandwich, and his squad came up with astir 30 antithetic spirit options aft much than a year. The concatenation tested the Honey Pepper Pimento Chicken Sandwich successful 2020 successful Asheville, North Carolina, and upstate South Carolina.

Tracy didn't regularisation retired Chick-fil-A permanently adding the paper item. After proviso runs out, the concatenation volition measure responses from customers and franchisees to determine if it's worthy bringing back.

Chick-fil-A is besides adding a caller seasonal milkshake to its autumn menu: the Caramel Crumble Milkshake. The milkshake includes butterscotch caramel flavors and blondie crumbles. The concatenation tested the paper point successful Salt Lake City successful 2021.