| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| | [[File:P08-01-12 12.52.jpg|right|thumb|250px| Chick-fil-A on Customer Appreciation Day August 1st, 2012]] | | [[File:P08-01-12 12.52.jpg|right|thumb|250px| Chick-fil-A on Customer Appreciation Day August 1st, 2012]] |
| | | | |
| − | '''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. Chick-fil-A has performed strongly despite being targeted by left-wing activists,<ref>Multiple references: | + | '''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. Chick-fil-A has performed strongly despite controversial beliefs,<ref>Multiple references: |
| | *Duke, Selwyn (December 22, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/31001-good-food-good-morals-good-business-boycotted-chick-fil-a-crows-in-triumph Good Food+Good Morals=Good Business: Boycotted Chick-fil-A Crows in Triumph]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 22, 2018. | | *Duke, Selwyn (December 22, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/31001-good-food-good-morals-good-business-boycotted-chick-fil-a-crows-in-triumph Good Food+Good Morals=Good Business: Boycotted Chick-fil-A Crows in Triumph]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 22, 2018. |
| | *Maidenberg, Micah (May 8, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/chick-fil-as-lean-menu-helps-chain-bulk-up-11557313200 Chick-fil-A’s Lean Menu Helps Chain Bulk Up]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved May 8, 2019. | | *Maidenberg, Micah (May 8, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/chick-fil-as-lean-menu-helps-chain-bulk-up-11557313200 Chick-fil-A’s Lean Menu Helps Chain Bulk Up]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved May 8, 2019. |
| Line 34: |
Line 34: |
| | 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". |
| | | | |
| − | They are a [[Christian]] business and are best known, even in the secular world, for their decision to not open their stores (whether company-owned or franchised) on the [[Lord]]'s day, Sunday. This applies even to their location inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the [[Atlanta Falcons]] (who usually play on Sundays, nor did they open during the 2019 Super Bowl). | + | They are a [[Christian]] business and are best known, even in the secular world, for their decision to not open their stores (whether company-owned or franchised) on Sunday. This applies even to their location inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the [[Atlanta Falcons]] (who usually play on Sundays, nor did they open during the 2019 Super Bowl). |
| | | | |
| | ==Charity== | | ==Charity== |
| Line 40: |
Line 40: |
| | | | |
| | ==Targeting by homosexual 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-molehill 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. | + | Chick-fil-A is frequently the target of a [[boycott]] by [[liberal]]s organizations, including those that support the traditional definition of marriage. The activists made a mountain-out-of-a-molehill regarding a Massachusetts anti-[[same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriage"]] group getting catering from Chick-fil-A. This has upset clear-thinking people who began organizing to boycott as a result. |
| | | | |
| − | 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 canceled its 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 (unclear what is meant by traditional as in the Bible many had multiple wives. People demanded future Chick-fil-A restaurants be banned in Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco. The Jim Henson Company canceled its contract to manufacture Muppets merchandise with Chick-fil-A. Liberals took to the internet to slander the chain as "bigots" and "haters". |
| | | | |
| − | 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. | + | 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 (definition?) and send a message to the forces of [[liberalism]] and [[political correctness]]. Pro-homosexual liberals held a "kiss-in" protest on August 3 at various Chick-fil-A restaurants as a protest of christian view of marriage.. On the same day, one location in Torrance, California was targeted with graffiti by vandals. |
| | | | |
| | == See also == | | == See also == |