{"id":734858,"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.com\/index\/734858","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Chick-fil-a Spicy Chicken Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3328\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/05\/126-300x270.jpg?resize=300%2C270\" 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":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35ay","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}