Chicken With a Beef: The Untold Story of Chick-fil-A's Cow Campaign

How The Richards Group found a winning creative recipe

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Stan Richards, founder and creative director of ad agency The Richards Group, was sitting in a routine staff meeting in 1994 when he learned his agency won the Chick-fil-A account. He didn’t find out in an email. No phone call came in breaking the good news. Instead, David Salyers—then vp of national and regional marketing at Chick-fil-A—ventured from Atlanta to the agency’s Dallas headquarters on a whim.

Salyers arrived, unannounced, and boldly walked into the meeting.

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