I’ll never understand the literal lines around the block for fucking Bigot-Chicken.
The food does taste good, and it’s reasonably healthy for fast food, additionally they pay and typically treat their employees well.
Especially now that McDonald’s has the same exact thing. They even stole the bag. And are open on Sundays.
My go-to is rofo though.
can’t speak for the bigots, but as a non-bigot who buys it for my kids a couple times a year -
there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. i say this as someone who doesn’t shop at amazon or wally world, but it’s really difficult to avoid every single brand/company with an asshole owner/ceo. additionally, my impression is they are one of the better employers in the area for people who just need a job and lack skills/ability to do something else.
It’s because assholes like the controversy and want to support the company. There was a time, long ago, when CFA legitimately had the only good fast food chicken, but those days are long gone. CFA is mid tier at best, so the only reason people would get in line to eat there these days is to own the libs
All the people here talking about boycotting chik-fil-a, yet the “boycott” has been going on for almost five years now and it made literally no difference.
They’re way more likely to be affected by the right-wing boycott due to the company having a VP of DEI than a bunch of people that never ate there in the first place “boycotting” because of bigotry.
I mean, if you don’t mind/know about the bigotry, it’s pretty fuckin good chicken. And their waffle fries are good too. Haven’t eaten there in years and I do miss the food. But it’s still a hard no for me.
it’s pretty fuckin good chicken.
But is it “wait a fucking half hour or more in a god damned drive through” good? Fuck no it isn’t.
The streamlined menu makes it so the line goes pretty fast.
Even when it’s around the building it’ll only take 10 min.
Evidently some people value their time less or the chicken more.
People turn everything so political. Is it worth waiting 1/2 for it? In my opinion no. I don’t boycott their product. I just don’t understand the obsession with it. It’s a chicken sandwich
Every time Chick Fil A is brought up, ugh.
Oh no, do you cry and piss and moan every time someone validly critiques a business you just want to shop at without having to think about ethical considerations?
Someone call the fucking waahhhmbulance. So sorry that ethics are so hard for you.
You can see it in the photo, but it’s always bothered me how my local chic fil a built a nice covered spot for their workers to work with heaters and fans for temperature control and then I basically never see the workers actually work there. They all seem to work at the very beginning of the line, never patient enough to just let cars move up to them.
Why build it that way if you never use it (or aren’t allowed to)??
Lemmy is absolutely aghast at the idea of being outside.
That’s your takeaway? There’s nothing else about that image that strikes you as odd or dumb or depressing?
I think this is more about the employment uniform looking like a porta potty
Doing God’s work.
And Popeye’s sandwiches are like double the size of Chik-Fil-A
And the entertainment of seeing other people fight is better than anything chic fil a has to offer
And Popeye’s spicy actually is.
The real boring dystopia is the radical car-centrism of having a drive-thru at all to begin with.
Try having small children; drive through a can be a lifesaver because you don’t need to unbuckle them, get their winter clothes on, get them into the restaurant, wait in line, order the food to go, then wait for the food, and then reverse the steps to get back into the car. It’s a giant PITA to just get some French fries, chicken tenders, and carrot sticks, let alone the drastically increased exposure to germs associated with a crowded restaurant. You may have heard, there’s a pretty bad wave of Covid, influenza, and RSV right now. Not sharing air with other people is a big part of staying healthy right now.
I don’t eat chick-fil-A because of reasons but damn when I did they knew how to move lines fast. Also, the food is okay but it isn’t as good as people make it out to me.
I mostly just liked their sauce, but that’s not enough to justify funding hate. The oppression leaves a bitter aftertaste.
I used to work at chick-fil-a. Those things sucked. They were hot and smelled of body oder. It hard to do anything.
As a non American: What are these people doing? Only time I’ve seen fast food personal outside around here is to empty the bins and pick up trash from the parking lot. Otherwise they are inside.
Taking drive through orders
WTF, really? People around here order using a touchscreen, same as the kiosks inside. If you want you can press a button and talk to someone inside to ask a question. But the UI on the kiosks is pretty good, ordering is easy and it includes all the info you could ever want. I’ve never had a reason to press the assistance button, but I like it’s there.
Sending actual people to stand in the rain for such a simple task seems very weird to me.
Volume. Cfa are extremely busy. It’d hard to grasp how much chicken they sell.
The order takes typically walk the line to take all the orders that way they just pull to the window to get their order.
Some states asked cfa to help with Covid vaccine coordination since they are experts at handling large crowds.
The early days of drive in was waiting in your car in the parking lot and wait for a server to come out to you to take your order. Then they return to your car with the food for you to eat in your car in the parking lot. They often had trays that hooked onto your window or trays that would sit in your lap to eat from. This food was diner style food and wasn’t quick to make like fast food today is.
These styles of restaurants fell out of style when cheap and quick fast food came along. This combined with Americans are usually only interested in the latest things or styles, many of these old style restaurants went under and disappeared into history. The Founder movie covers some of this when the McDonald’s brothers came along.
The ones that didn’t die like A&W adopted the eat inside model with a drive thru window for pickup abandoning the older model where their waitresses would roller skate out to your car to take your order and deliver food.
Then there are newer chains like Sonic in the US that have this old style pull up parking and a drive thru with outside seating. This is more of a nostalgia play for consumers and it worked as it was a trip to something that wasn’t around anymore so it was new again.
I assume this Chick Fil place is doing something similar in this photo or they are just delivering food during the pandemic to people that preordered ahead of time in the rain.
Owned by religious nutbags. Don’t eat here.
I’ve never actually “been” to Chick-Fil-A, not even when I didn’t know about their shitty beliefs. Popeyes was always more convenient and tastes great. Now that I know, I actively avoid CFA.
I have tasted it when other people bring it in for work or something, and I still don’t get the hype. It’s just ok and definitely not worth waiting in a long line for when there are so many other options.
Edit: I don’t know if these even exist anymore, but some Popeyes have/had a buffet. If you find one of these glorious chicken establishment unicorns, please take advantage of it. You won’t regret it.
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I’ve read that the chicken Aldi sells in a red bag cooked in an air fryer is on par with CHICK-FIL-A. 🤷♂️
We got those, or some similar “it’s like chick-fil-a” chicken from there. I did not like it because it tastes like pickles.
I REALLY dislike the taste of pickles for some reason. I’ve seen people speculate that chick-fil-a brines their chicken in pickle juice, but either way if I get a sandwich of theirs without pickles, I don’t taste anything like I do with the store chicken. That goes for both the normal and the spicy sandwich.
I have experimented with similar recipes and pickle juice is the key to the taste and texture of chick fil a while brining.
Rain hoods and bigotry.
