{"id":581704,"date":"2010-05-27T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2010-05-27T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:50:22","slug":"first-look-chick-fil-a-spicy-chicken-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581704","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Chick-fil-a Spicy Chicken Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3328\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/05\/126-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/>Yesterday I spent the afternoon inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chick-fil-a.com\/\"><strong>Chick-fil-a<\/strong><\/a> <em>sanctum sanctorum<\/em> &#8212; i.e., the company headquarters &#8212; with AJC business reporter Jeremiah McWilliams. A large group from the product development, marketing and public relations teams met us in the test kitchen, where one wall was covered with a red tarp to shield it from our view. I assume it was shelving filled with proprietary seasonings and spices, though I suppose it could have been a voodoo altar with pins sticking from a Double Down.<\/p>\n<p>After a thorough presentation of the company&#8217;s research and development methodology, we learned how the <strong>Spicy Chicken Sandwich<\/strong> came to be. This new product &#8212; which officially hits Chick-fil-a&#8217;s 1400-plus stores on June 7 &#8212; has been on the boards since 2004, and in active development since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Chick-fil-a is milking the huge anticipation for this product &#8212; long requested by customers &#8212; for everything it can get. As you&#8217;ve probably heard, customers who <a href=\"http:\/\/getspicychicken.com\/\">signed up online<\/a> were able to &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent the afternoon inside the Chick-fil-a sanctum sanctorum &#8212; i.e., the company headquarters &#8212; with AJC business reporter Jeremiah McWilliams. A large group from the product development, marketing and public relations teams met us in the test kitchen, where one wall was covered with a red tarp to shield it from our view. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}