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GOD FORBID!!! You can be an athiest, flaming liberal, gay, or ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO BE and we should all be tolerant and respectful of your believ/thoughts/feelings/needs....but GOD FORBID you are a CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN!!!
Perhaps if being a conservative christian wasn't synonymous with constantly sticking your nose in other peoples' business where it doesn't belong and dictating that everyone else's lives should be as miserable and empty as your own then maybe the rest of society would have a little more respect for you.
The Chik Fil A around here is always packed and the drive through has cars literally lined up around the building. Food is great and service is excellent. Dining in a woman comes around and gets you a free drink refill and when you’re done a staff person offers to take your empty tray and garbage. A first class establishment all the way.
I'll give them that. The CFA closest to where I lived in San Antonio had some of the most courteous employees. some of them were even older folks too, not all teenaged help. CFA also doesn't build too many restaurants, much like the In n Out folks (the other hard right christian restaurant). So, their restaurants always appear really crowded because they're not so ubiquitous.
In corpus christi for example, a city of about 300,000, we only have 2 CFAs and one of those is inside the mall and hard to get to.
Just as Target is supportive of homosexuals, Chick Fila is against it.
If you don't like it you don't have to shop or eat there.
Simple as that.
Hold it - Target is not that. All they did was make a "gay shirt", but only made it available online, not in their stores. Just a year and a half ago, they donated to an anti-gay senatorial candidate.
Hold it - Target is not that. All they did was make a "gay shirt", but only made it available online, not in their stores. Just a year and a half ago, they donated to an anti-gay senatorial candidate.
Gays love to shop at Target & it is a gay friendly company from what I've seen.
I'll give them that. The CFA closest to where I lived in San Antonio had some of the most courteous employees. some of them were even older folks too, not all teenaged help. CFA also doesn't build too many restaurants, much like the In n Out folks (the other hard right christian restaurant). So, their restaurants always appear really crowded because they're not so ubiquitous.
In corpus christi for example, a city of about 300,000, we only have 2 CFAs and one of those is inside the mall and hard to get to.
It's funny though, because In-N-Out has bible passages on their food and beverage containers and it doesn't seem to bother anyone. I'm a very staunch Atheist and I couldn't care less because it's a very low key way to put their faith out there without alienating anyone and causing issues, in fact I think it's quite clever in it's unobtrusiveness. They aren't political either from what I've researched. They just do their thing and run a GREAT business.
It's funny though, because In-N-Out has bible passages on their food and beverage containers and it doesn't seem to bother anyone. I'm a very staunch Atheist and I couldn't care less because it's a very low key way to put their faith out there without alienating anyone and causing issues, in fact I think it's quite clever in it's unobtrusiveness. They aren't political either from what I've researched. They just do their thing and run a GREAT business.
Perhaps Chick-Fil-A could learn from In-N-Out.
As a privately held company, Chick-Fil-A can afford to do it, In-N-Out can't.
Estimated annual revenues:
Chick-Fil-A: 4 BILLION & climbing at a very fast rate
As a privately held company, Chick-Fil-A can afford to do it, In-N-Out can't.
Estimated annual revenues:
Chick-Fil-A: 4 BILLION & climbing at a very fast rate
In-N-Out: 465 Million & staying fairly steady
That's revenue. It doesn't speak to profitability. And rather than give to fundamentalist political organizations, In-N-Out concentrates is donations to children's charities such as the Make A Wish foundation mostly through their own Child Abuse Foundation (if you give in April - national child abuse prevention month - they "match" any donation given in triplicate).
That's revenue. It doesn't speak to profitability. And rather than give to fundamentalist political organizations, In-N-Out concentrates is donations to children's charities such as the Make A Wish foundation mostly through their own Child Abuse Foundation (if you give in April - national child abuse prevention month - they "match" any donation given in triplicate).
It's funny though, because In-N-Out has bible passages on their food and beverage containers and it doesn't seem to bother anyone. I'm a very staunch Atheist and I couldn't care less because it's a very low key way to put their faith out there without alienating anyone and causing issues, in fact I think it's quite clever in it's unobtrusiveness. They aren't political either from what I've researched. They just do their thing and run a GREAT business.
Perhaps Chick-Fil-A could learn from In-N-Out.
Their very affordable food and friendliness of the mployees keeps me coming back for more all the time despite the crowds. As you say, they are indeed down low about their christianity and pay their employees a very good wage.
That's revenue. It doesn't speak to profitability. And rather than give to fundamentalist political organizations, In-N-Out concentrates is donations to children's charities such as the Make A Wish foundation mostly through their own Child Abuse Foundation (if you give in April - national child abuse prevention month - they "match" any donation given in triplicate).
CFA has been expanding very rapidly in the last few years. when I lived in Socal, there were ONLY 3 locations!, 2 in south bay, city of industry (puente hills mall) and I think 2 more in northern calif. Now, there are many of them in socal alone. I was sad at that time when the Puente hills location was replaced by yet another hallmark card store .
In n OUt has also begun expansion (very recently) into Texas. They are now in DFW area, Austin (i think) and coming to San Antonio. I don't think that In n OUt is as good as whataburger though (subject of another thread).
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