🍋 Chick-fil-A's lemon juice factory processes 1.6m pounds of lemons daily. That's roughly 20% of ALL lemons in the US supply chain.

For a single menu item. At a chicken restaurant.

But here's where it gets interesting for anyone thinking about their career trajectory...

Their automation system saves 10,000 hours of manual labor every single day. That's equivalent to 1,250 full-time employees - just for squeezing lemons.

The factory only runs 4 days a week. They've built such an efficient system that they don't need the fifth day.

Two career lessons hiding in plain sight:

🤖 1. Automation creates opportunities in unexpected places
While their robots handle the squeezing, humans are needed to design, maintain, and optimize these systems. The future isn't about competing with automation (seriously, fuhgeddaboudit...) - it's about mastering its potential.

⚙️ 2. Systems thinking is the new superpower
Understanding how things connect - from supply chain to sustainability - is becoming invaluable across every field. So many people underestimate this skill set.

Next time you're mapping out your career moves, remember: the biggest opportunities might be in the places others see as routine or mundane.

P.S. When life gives you lemons... sell them to the cosmetics industry. (Yup. Chick-fil-A sells their leftover lemon oils to make your face cream. Sustainable, and profitable.)