Official Chick-fil-A Thread

[minionofmidas]

If I boycotted every business where I disagreed with the political views of those in charge, I might have to kill for my own food.

I really don't care what businesses think, short of "Hey, let's overthrow the republic."

Sorry, that rabbit you're aiming at has political views you disagree with (specifically on hungry humans' gun rights). You will have to boycott it.

[minionofmidas]

You appear to be restricting American values to the definition 'success in the free market'. I don't think that's all that American values are. I think they're other things as well.

Bear in mind that the particular chain of 'restaurants' we're talking about operates primarily (although not exclusively) in geographical areas and along cultural lines where these sorts of shenanigans help them. Others don't.

Why the scare quotes around restaurants?  Whatever you might think of the ownership's political opinions, Chick-fil-A is most definitely a restaurant chain, albeit one that has always operated with a conservative Christian viewpoint, which is most emblematic in its refusal to be open on Sundays.  [Not that they have absolutely no one there on such days. When I drove by one two days ago, the parking lot was getting a power-washing while the restaurant was closed for the Christian sabbath.]

Installing seats in a fast food joint does not make a restaurant. Advertising-driven redefinitions of words should be resisted as long as possible. (Not that Chick-Fil-A is the culprit here, that's McD.)