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| | '''Chick-fil-A''' is a privately held and family owned fast food franchise with over 1500 locations nationwide. Established in 1946 by [[Truett Cathy]], he opened his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Georgia. In 2010, annual sales were over $3.5 billion. | | '''Chick-fil-A''' is a privately held and family owned fast food franchise with over 1500 locations nationwide. Established in 1946 by [[Truett Cathy]], he opened his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Georgia. In 2010, annual sales were over $3.5 billion. |
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| − | Restaurants can be stand alone locations, mall-based, drive-thru only as well as college campuses, hospitals, and airport "Lunch Counters". They operate themed restaurants known by the names Dwarf House and Truett's Grill. They included the full Chick-fil-A menu. | + | Restaurants can be stand alone locations, mall-based (including in food courts), drive-thru only as well as college campuses, hospitals, and airport "Lunch Counters". They operate themed restaurants known by the names Dwarf House and Truett's Grill. They included the full Chick-fil-A menu. |
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| | Their brand campaign since 1995 has been a cow (symbolizing hamburgers) with a sign that reads "Eat Mor Chikin". | | Their brand campaign since 1995 has been a cow (symbolizing hamburgers) with a sign that reads "Eat Mor Chikin". |
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| | Truett and Jeannette Cathy created the WinShape Foundation over 20 years ago which currently operates 11 foster care homes in [[Georgia]], [[Tennessee]] and [[Alabama]]. In addition, college scholarships totaling more than $26 million, camping, marriage counseling and more. Chick-fil-A franchises often contribute to local charities, school sports and activities, and non-profit organizations. | | Truett and Jeannette Cathy created the WinShape Foundation over 20 years ago which currently operates 11 foster care homes in [[Georgia]], [[Tennessee]] and [[Alabama]]. In addition, college scholarships totaling more than $26 million, camping, marriage counseling and more. Chick-fil-A franchises often contribute to local charities, school sports and activities, and non-profit organizations. |
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| − | ==Gay activists== | + | ==Targeting by homosexual activists== |
| − | Chick-fil-A is frequently the target of a [[boycott]] by [[liberal]]s who dislike Christian organizations, including those that support the traditional definition of marriage. The activists made a mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill regarding a Massachusetts anti-[[gay marriage]] group getting catering from Chick-fil-A. This has upset social misfits dearly and [[gay]]s are to stop giving them business as a result. | + | Chick-fil-A is frequently the target of a [[boycott]] by [[liberal]]s who dislike Christian organizations, including those that support the traditional definition of marriage. The activists made a mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill regarding a Massachusetts anti-[[same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriage"]] group getting catering from Chick-fil-A. This has upset social misfits dearly and [[homosexual]]s began organizing to boycott as a result. |
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| | In July 2012, Chick-fil-A Chief Operations Officer Dan Cathy expressed his personal Christian opinion to a [[Baptist]] newspaper saying "guilty as charged" for the defense of traditional marriage. An avalanche of liberal outrage ensued and the so-called tolerant [[homosexual activist|No-H8]] crowd demanded future Chick-fil-A restaurants be banned in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. The Jim Henson Company cancelled their contract to manufacture Muppets merchandise with Chick-fil-A. Liberals took to the internet to slander the chain as "bigots" and "haters". | | In July 2012, Chick-fil-A Chief Operations Officer Dan Cathy expressed his personal Christian opinion to a [[Baptist]] newspaper saying "guilty as charged" for the defense of traditional marriage. An avalanche of liberal outrage ensued and the so-called tolerant [[homosexual activist|No-H8]] crowd demanded future Chick-fil-A restaurants be banned in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. The Jim Henson Company cancelled their contract to manufacture Muppets merchandise with Chick-fil-A. Liberals took to the internet to slander the chain as "bigots" and "haters". |
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| − | Led by [[Mike Huckabee]] and the [[American Family Association]], conservatives rallied and began a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day on August 1, 2012, where more than 630,000 people signed up to support the event on Facebook and Chick-fil-A locations around the country were packed with patrons who came to support Cathy's stand on traditional marriage and send a message to the forces of [[liberalism]] and [[political correctness]]. Pro-gay liberals held a childish "kiss-in" protest on August 3 at various Chick-fil-A restaurants as a protest of traditional marriage, which largely bombed as it drew barely any protesters. On the same day, one location in Torrance, California was targeted with graffiti by pro-gay vandals. | + | Led by [[Mike Huckabee]] and the [[American Family Association]], conservatives rallied and began a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day on August 1, 2012, where more than 630,000 people signed up to support the event on Facebook and Chick-fil-A locations around the country were packed with patrons who came to support Cathy's stand on traditional marriage and send a message to the forces of [[liberalism]] and [[political correctness]]. Pro-homosexual liberals held a childish "kiss-in" protest on August 3 at various Chick-fil-A restaurants as a protest of traditional marriage, which largely bombed as it drew barely any protesters. On the same day, one location in Torrance, California was targeted with graffiti by pro-homosexual vandals. |
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |
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| | *[[Greatest conservative corporations]] | | *[[Greatest conservative corporations]] |
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