Wingstop, the chain that took chicken wings from appetizer to center-of-the-plate, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Due to its continued growth, there is a lot to celebrate.
In an NBC news story this week entitled ‘Wingstop an Anomaly in Current Restaurant Trend’, reporter Scott Freidman said, “Wingstop is one chain that is bucking the national trend.”
Wingstop is continuing to grow, even in this economic downturn. In January, Wingstop announced that it had busted its all time record for openings with 71 new locations popping up across the country in 2008. Comparable sales for the year were up 6.5 percent over the year prior.
“We’re now routinely churning out over a million wings a day and recently surpassed the 1.5 billion-wings-sold mark,” said Jim Flynn, Wingstop CEO. “We brought on a record number of stores last year and hope to continue our rapid growth into new territories.”
