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This undated image made available by Chick-fil-A shows Truett Cathy. (AP Photo/Chick-fil-A) ( Chick fil A Truett Cathy )

Chick-fil-A Founder S. Truett Cathy, center, commemorates his $25 million Leadership Scholarship milestone today at an Atlanta ceremony where Bossier City, La. resident Jamie Dyche, right, was presented with the chain's 25,000 th scholarship by 88-year-old Cathy. Cathy unveiled a plaque capturing the 54-year-old story where he helped one of his earliest employees Eddie White, left, raise funds to attend college by placing a mayonnaise jar on the counter of his first restaurant from which the Chick-fil-A chain was created. (PRNewsFoto/Chick-fil-A, Inc.) ( CHICK-FIL-A, INC. LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP )

Chick-fil-A Founder S. Truett Cathy celebrates the chain's 40th anniversary by reflecting on the question he is most often asked. What followed is Cathy's fifth book, How Did You Do It, Truett? (Looking Glass Books). The book includes a personal note from businessman Warren Buffett to Cathy. In the book, Cathy offers a number of tips on philosophies and principles for an entrepreneur starting a business, including his do's and don'ts of proven success. (PRNewsFoto/Chick-fil-A, Inc.) ( CHICK-FIL-A NEW BOOK )

President Bush presents the Lifetime President's Volunteer Service Award to Chick fil-A Inc. founder Truett Cathy, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) ( Bush )

Atlanta-based restaurant chain Chick-fil-A celebrated its 40th anniversary this week at the site of the chain's first restaurant. Founder Truett Cathy (shown cutting the cake), his son President and COO Dan Cathy (watching alongside on Truett's left), and the "Eat Mor Chikin" Cows were joined at Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall by family, friends, employees, government officials, business partners and customers to celebrate 40 years of success and service to the community. (PRNewsFoto/Chick-fil-A) ( CHICK-FIL-A )

in this photo released by Chick-fil-A shows Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, center, receiving the last Ford Taurus as Ford employees Dale Wishnousky, left, and Al Kent look on Friday, Oct.27, 2006 at the Ford Assembly Plant Hapeville, Ga. The 85-year-old Cathy has had a longtime relationship with the plant, crediting the success of his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill (now called the Dwarf House), to the Ford plant's workers. The restaurant is located across the street from the plant. (AP Photo/Chick-fil-a, Joe Sebo) ( LAST TAURUS )

In this July 26, 2006 file photo, Chick-Fil-A founder Truett Cathy reacts during an interview at his corporate headquarters office in Hapeville, Ga. It is not entirely clear wether Chick-fil-a has definitely ended its financial support for groups that oppose same-sex unions. But a statement issued by the company Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2012, just months after its chief spoke against gay marriage, indicates it now plans to keep its distance from the more controversial views held by its Southern Baptist owners. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File) ( Chick Fil A Gay Marriage )

Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy listens during an interview at his corporate headquarters office in Hapeville, Ga., Wednesday, July 26, 2006. The fast-food chain's restaurants close on Sundays to give employees a day of rest, a business decision 85-year-old Cathy said has been a big factor in the company's success, by sticking to his doctrine of considering people before profits. (AP Photo/Ric Feld) ( CHICK FIL A )

Chick-Fil-A founder Truett Cathy reacts during an interview at his corporate headquarters office in Hapeville, Ga., Wednesday, July 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Ric Feld) ( CHICK FIL A )

In this July 25, 2006, file photo, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Guiterrez, right, leaves with a lunch bag as Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, left, walks him out after a meeting with Georgia business leaders to discuss immigration reform at Chick-fil-A in Atlanta. A spokesman said Cathy, who started a postwar diner in Atlanta that grew into the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, died early Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/John Amis, File) ( US Obit Chick fil A Founder )

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Guiterrez, center, and Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, left, laugh as Cathy stops Guiterrez from paying for his drink as Elizabeth Fritz, right, operates the register, before the start of a meeting with Georgia business leaders to discuss immigration reform, held at a Chick-fil-A, Tuesday, July 25, 2006, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis) ( COMMERCE IMMIGRATION )

Chick-fil-A founder and CEO Truett Cathy congratulates the chain's 20,000th Leadership Scholarship recipient Erica Lampkin. They are seated at the original Dwarf Grill restaurant counter, now located in a museum at corporate headquarters, where 50 years ago Cathy placed a mayonnaise jar to help raise funds for an employee to attend college. Since formally creating the scholarship program in 1973, Cathy has awarded $20 million to employees who have attended 2,138 educational institutions. (PRNewsFoto/Chick-fil-A) ( CHICK-FIL-A'S 20,000TH LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT )

S. Truett Cathy, founder and chairman of Chick-Fil-A, Inc., appears before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection on Capitol Hill Friday, July 26, 2002. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook) ( CATHY CHICK FIL A )

S. Truett Cathy, founder and chairman of Chick-Fil-A, Inc., appears before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection on Capitol Hill Friday, July 26, 2002. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook) ( CATHY CHICK FIL A )

In this Nov. 8, 2001, file photo, S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, poses on his son, Dan T. Cathy's, Harley Davidson motorcycle which is painted to look like a cow, in front of the company's headquarters in south Atlanta. A spokesman said Cathy, who started a postwar diner in Atlanta that grew into the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, died early Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File) ( US Obit Chick fil A Founder )

In this Nov. 8, 2001, file photo, S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, poses in a replica of "The Dwarf Grill," the original restaurant he started in Atlanta in 1946. A spokesman said Cathy, who started the postwar diner in Atlanta that grew into the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, died early Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File) ( US Obit Chick fil A founder )

S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, second right, poses Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001, on his son, Dan T. Cathy's, Harley Davidson motorcycle painted to look like a cow, at the company's headquarters in south Atlanta. Joining Cathy are, from left, son Dan T. Cathy, daughter Trudy White, and son Donald "Bubba" Cathy. (AP Photo/Ric Feld) ( SELLING MOR CHIKIN )