Foosackly's (stylized as foosackly's) is an American chain of chicken restaurants in coastal Alabama and Northwest Florida.

Background

Foosackly's was co-founded by Will Fusaiotti and Eric Brechtel. The two attended

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together. Fusaiotti moved to Mobile with his family in 1995 to help his father open a

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. Fusaiotti and Brechtel had never fried a piece of chicken until the weekend before opening their first location on University Boulevard in Mobile in 2000. The first location opened on April 28, 2000. The restaurant has grown into a mini-chain in Alabama with 14 current operating locations in Mobile, Daphne, Foley, Saraland, Semmes, Auburn, and two in Pensacola, Florida. The chain opened its fourteenth location, in

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, in 2020, and has plans to open further locations in Baldwin County and in Pensacola. Fusaiotti has also considered opening restaurants in downtown Mobile, Spanish Fort, and locations northward toward Montgomery and

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, describing his philosophy of "It's not how many you open, it's how many you keep open." All restaurants had to shut down their in-room dine-ins in mid-March 2020 to combat the

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. Customers could still make their orders via drive-thru,

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or pick-up service. Dine-in service has since resumed.

Advertising

One of the company's advertising campaigns gained national and international attention in 2008 during the U.S. Air Force's KC-135 aerial refueling tanker dispute between Boeing and a

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/ EADS partnership. Boeing protested the contract being awarded to Northrop Grumman/EADS, who would have built the tankers in Mobile. After this protest, Foosackly's placed billboards around the area stating "We would like to offer Boeing a finger." That advertising campaign saw bumper stickers featuring the slogan sold as far afield as California and France. Almost four years later, following an announcement in July 2012 from Airbus (a subsidiary of EADS) that it planned to build its first North American aircraft assembly plant in Mobile, Foosackly's began using a new slogan that read "We'd like to offer Airbus a hand."

Credit card breach of 2018

In mid-2018, the company reported that all of its locations had been hacked and credit card data from over 165,000+ customers had been compromised. The attack took place from March 2018 through August 2018.

References

External links

Foosackly's web siteFoosackly's Facebook Page
{{Establishments serving chicken Restaurants in Alabama Companies based in Mobile, Alabama Fast-food poultry restaurants Fast-food chains of the United States Economy of the Southeastern United States Regional restaurant chains in the United States Fast casual restaurants Restaurants established in 2000 2000 establishments in Alabama Chicken chains of the United States

Background

Advertising

Credit card breach of 2018

See also

References

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