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Head: Chick-fil-A is no longer selling food at the USU men’s basketball games

By Judd Workman

Spectators at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum no longer have the option of eating Chick-fil-A during their visit to watch the Utah State University men’s basketball games.

Cory Goettsche, the owner and operator of the Logan Chick-fil-A, made the decision to stop selling food at the games after consulting with his management team.

“It just isn’t as profitable as it used to be,” Goettsche said. “We did the math of what it requires and it just didn’t make sense from a business standpoint. The past couple years it just hasn’t taken off.”

Jonathan Butler, the director of operations at Chick-fil-A, was in charge of transporting food back and forth from the store to the spectrum.

“There’s a lot that goes into it and it was taking up a lot of time for Cory and I,” Butler said. “I’d be at the store sometimes until midnight or 1 a.m. just cleaning up after the games.”

Butler also said the management team wanted to focus more on the store and make sure everyone was having good experiences — employees and customers alike.

“It’s kind of nice because we’re not as rushed here trying to make twice the amount of food on game nights now,” said Layla Dustin, a team member at Chick-fil-A.

“We’re constantly looking at new things and evaluating what we can try next,” Goettsche said. “Since it is a college town I do a lot to market toward the university, but in the end that’s not my main focus.”