
How Chick-fil-A Achieves Fantastic Customer Service with Shane Benson
02/28/22 • 41 min
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Join us as our host, George Kamel, talks to Shane Benson. Shane is the senior vice president of operations at Chick-fil-A corporate and was Chick-fil-A’s vice president of customer experience for 16 years. He shares how the customer service culture at Chick-fil-A has developed over the years and the underlying principles you and your team can put into practice to create repeat customers. Later in the episode, George chats with Luke LeFevre, Ramsey Solutions’ chief creative officer. Luke explains why he repeats certain phrases to his team and why those phrases are important for keeping the team focused on the mission and the vision.
You’ll learn:
- Chick-fil-A’s simple ingredients for great customer service
- The secret sauce for creating consistent customer service
- A simple tool to protect your company culture
- How to transfer your culture to new hires
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Join us as our host, George Kamel, talks to Shane Benson. Shane is the senior vice president of operations at Chick-fil-A corporate and was Chick-fil-A’s vice president of customer experience for 16 years. He shares how the customer service culture at Chick-fil-A has developed over the years and the underlying principles you and your team can put into practice to create repeat customers. Later in the episode, George chats with Luke LeFevre, Ramsey Solutions’ chief creative officer. Luke explains why he repeats certain phrases to his team and why those phrases are important for keeping the team focused on the mission and the vision.
You’ll learn:
- Chick-fil-A’s simple ingredients for great customer service
- The secret sauce for creating consistent customer service
- A simple tool to protect your company culture
- How to transfer your culture to new hires
Sign up for The EntreLeadership Podcast Takeaways—a weekly email where you’ll get three tangible takeaways and a tactical action step related to each week’s episode: https://bit.ly/podcast-takeaways
Support our sponsors:
- BELAY: https://bit.ly/33SwBlO
- Hite Digital: https://bit.ly/HiteDigital
- NetSuite: https://bit.ly/NetSuiteEntre
- Exodus 90: https://bit.ly/Exodus90Entre
- Kyro Digital: https://bit.ly/KyroDigital
Links mentioned in the episode:
- The EntreLeadership Podcast: https://bit.ly/TheEntreLeadershipPodcast
- Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps: https://bit.ly/351RpIi
- Download the free How to Create Core Values guide: https://bit.ly/3oZE3Tt
- Schedule a call with Tim, our producer: https://bit.ly/3bJOSmi
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- EntreLeadership Summit: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipSummit
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