There’s a reason why Chick Fil A is doing better than every other fast food company: Service.
There’s a reason why Chick Fil A is doing better than every other fast food company: Service.
No, the reason is blind loyalty from Christofascist Christian Nationalists.
Every time you pay them for their bland ass chicken, they spend some of that money on torturing gay kids for Jesus, or supporting a politician that wants to make heresy a capital crime.
As much as you think that matters to everyone else as much as it matters to you, you are wrong.
You aren’t wrong about what their owners do and what supporting them funds. But 99/100 people going to Chick Fil A just want a damn chicken sandwich. They don’t think about the owners or politics. They think about going somewhere that is fast, easy, and relatively tasty (compared to other fast food places).
Blind loyalty only accounts for a very minor percent of their business.
99/100 people going to the lunch counter just want a sandwich. They don’t care about the politics or who isn’t allowed to sit at the counter
Racist fuckheads only account for a very minor percent of their business.
Bullshit. There’s always 5 extra employees at chickfila, an extra 1-2 in the drive through alone. My order is never wrong at chickfila, I’ve never had to complain of missing items.
Service trumps it all, whether you like the taste or not. I don’t feel cheated, I don’t feel abused. I get what I pay for and move on.
It’s a very simple system that so many others fuck up so badly.
Hope you’re part of whatever group they start finding the oppression of next. Anyone not militantly opposed to Christian Nationalism is supporting Christian Nationalism.
Where do they support that, I’m only familiar with the religious angle.
I’m anti-religion, so it’s kind of a testament towards the business.
You are objectively wrong on this one.
Most people who go to CFA could not care less about religion. They go there because the service is outstanding and people are nice to them, and no other place treats customers that way.
They can get chicken anywhere. They can’t have nice service anywhere else.
While that doesn’t actually match up with my experience growing up in the cult or my experience working at one, I’ll grant that there might be some places where that’s true.
In which case I hope every sorry sack of shit who thinks the cashier faking a pleasant demeanor for their minimum wage is more important than not supporting Christian Nationalism winds up being the next target. Not supporting shitheads like the Cathy family is so far below the bare minimum that if you can’t just not eat the bland ass chicken then you don’t deserve any empathy at all when (not if) the Nazis come for you.
Yeah, as much as I disagree with the owners religious stance/beliefs, there isno denying that Chick-Fil-A is simple well priced, fast, decent fast food with great ustomer service added on around it. They have a very solid business model.
they are just not yet fell in the abyss of enshittification on the same level as others dropped themselves willingly, but it’s only temporary and enshittification is so much greater than we are 😭
It’s not a publicly traded company.
When you notice some company being way less shitty than others for apparently no reason, that’s almost always the reason.
Publicly traded, or backed by private equity. Both of those situations encourage racing to the bottom, no matter what the founders might want.
Still not eating the overrated bigot chicken.
They can still eat shit since they STILL fund anti-lgbtq organizations, to my knowledge.
The one nearest me is owned by a gay couple. Not sure how that slipped through the cracks…
I dont really understand it, but their employees in my area seem to be like, 30% gay. Maybe they are all closeted religious folk, but surely that cant be.
Maybe they are just people who need a job??
I know you mean that 30% their employees are gay, but it tickles me that it reads like you’re assigning them a position on the Kinsey scale.
I don’t care if they still fund it or not. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
With a corporation, that gets complicated. IIRC, it was the CEO and/or other top executives, not the company itself. And those executives are now gone, but still funding the same atrocities.
The new executives still aren’t great, so it’s easy in this particular case. But what if they really were different?
Words are cheap, I’ll forgive them only if they do a 180 and actually start supporting the community instead of funding bigots.
I like their food and their service is top notch, so I’d be glad to see positive change from them.
I like their food
Have you considered trying literally any other Chicken joint in the South? Most of the other ones actually season their food so that it tastes different from the packaging it comes in.
Yes? It’s fast food, not good food. I haven’t eaten there in years because there’s a local chicken place across the street that’s ten times better.
Nobody can change?
Sure people can change.
But they don’t seem to have.
In this case, Jesus chicken has always been anti lgbtq. Their long history would prevent me from forgiving them for that, but maybe if it was under new ownership or something.
And in the general case?
I have no problem forgiving people if that’s what you’re getting at. There’s a difference between forgiveness and excusing bad behavior, though.
People can change, but how often have you personally seen some MAGA chud or anti-lgbtq bigot realize they’ve been an asshole and change themselves for the better? I won’t say those things never happen, but I’m pretty sure it’s fucking rare.
Fair point, but I’d struggle to forgive a business even more than a person. Sometimes it also doesn’t matter if they change if what they’ve done is awful enough.
This isn’t a “body”, its a fucking company. If people weren’t so fucking sedated they would be out of business for their hate
A corporation?
Christofascist chicken or AI fueled burgers…hmm, maybe I’ll just get some tacos.
Cheaper to eat at home.
I mostly cook at home and only occasionally eat fast food, but as a cooking enthusiast it’s rarely cheaper…
I think it depends what you’re cooking. Of course it’s not cheaper to eat at home on the days that I’m busting out dry aged prime ribeye. But the days that I’m doing teriyaki chicken bowls on the grill over rice, that’s obscenely cheaper than like $15 per person fast food meals.
Ah yes, let me come home in between two doubles and spend time prepping, cooking, and cleaning instead of getting that precious extra hour of rest.
You’ll feel better and it’s likely to take you less time than ordering and waiting for something to show up. If you’re just doing pick up, it will save you 2/3 of the money you’re working doubles to make and then lighting on fire to eat fast “food”.
If you’ve got a rice cooker and a toaster oven I’ve got a couple of recipes less than 10 mins of actual work. I understand not wanting to work too hard at it too though.
The taco guy on the corner and the halal truck down the street. I trust them with my life.
Make sure there’s no lettuce on them.
How about pizza? Can’t go wrong with pizza
Very true. It’s tough to find really bad pizza. Little Caesar’s tries their best to make awful pizza but somehow manages to make minimally acceptable pizza.
The Little Caesar’s near my house has not managed to cross that low bar yet.
I still have yet to actually order with an AI system. Plenty of restaurants around me have them, but an employee always cuts in before I can order.
I got somewhat forced into one at a Rally’s the other day when I was in a rush and couldn’t be bothered to go somewhere else. It was a terrible experience, both because of the AI and because the food was just awful.
The burrito place near me tried doing an AI ordering thing for their phone service, but I never could get it to work. I told them that it didn’t work, and they gave me the magic words to skip to a human.
My family got stuck with one. It couldn’t get the order right, kept doubling an item. Finally my kid asked for 10,000 waters and that caused the human to get tagged in.
One extra large order of the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, please. To go.
Enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy, nothing more, nothing less.
They can do whatever they want, still not supporting them. Their food isn’t good.
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Nor are their politics!
I’m a Popeye’s and Raising Caine’s man.
They are building a Raising Caine’s near my house. what’s their schtick?
Above average chicken fingers. The CEO is a MAGA donor, so beware.
Above average chicken tenders at significantly above average prices and so many screaming kids you’ll not be able to hear yourself think.
Utterly unseasoned chicken, but wonderful bread and good sauce.
Like, seriously, the chicken just tastes like the flour they fry it in. If I go there, I just order bread and a little sauce to dip it in
Star Trek Replicator Chicken fingers. It looks perfect and is always the same, but it’s the type of place where somebody probably got thrown out of a window for suggesting that a pinch of black pepper be put into the recipe. The sauce is pretty decent, but I hope you like it because it’s utterly necessary. Good lemonade too. Founder leans right, but not “Cathy-family” right.
If you live somewhere with a Layne’s Chicken, that’s way better. Popeye’s is generally better too, though it’s traditional fast food grimy versus “pretend we’re fast-casual” veneer that a lot of the chicken places like to do.
Oil! Lots of oil!
Popeyes is gross too. Probably some of the worst quality food out there, unless just every restaurant here is just bad.
I always wanted to try raising caines, heard it’s good but we don’t have one around here.
Popeye’s depends on location. I’ve had some amazing Popeye’s and some “holy shit how do you fuck up a chicken tender” experiences.
That’s just a lie…
The food is good, for “fast” food it’s amazing. Like, I don’t think there’s another fastfood option that hasn’t fully transition to the mcChicken method were the patty is reconstituted scraps.
Their politics with LGBTQ is (was?) absolute dog shit and more than enough reason to boycott them as an isolated issue…
But honestly looking at any other aspect of their company, and they’re one of the most worker friendly options. Which again, is not a high bar to clear, especially in fast food.
So if anyone is boycotting Chick-fil-A, they have valid reasons. It’s just damn near every other option is even worse, so if they have consistent logic their boycott list is every major corporation. Like, the owner has 10 billion dollars, no billionaire owned company is going to be ethical. If someone’s only issue with Chick-fil-A is the anti-lgbt stuff, that doesn’t mean they’re a good person, it means they only care about the demographic they consider “us”.
But again; saying they’re food isn’t good is just a flat out lie.
Dude, you’re fighting a losing battle here. Their food is good, I like it just fine, and these people are clearly just letting their personal bias get in the way of that. I do not agree with Chick-fil-As politics, but im not gonna let that stop me from eating it when my boss goes out and brings it back to us for free. There isnt a single good chicken place near work, other than Chick-fil-A.
You people need to get off your high horse. I don’t give a shit about them or their agenda. Their food is gross.
I mean, there’s a reason humans are still tribal in 2026, and it’s not exclusive to conservatives.
We evolved to handle the social load of less than 200 other humans, that’s the entire world we evolved for…
Everyone else is a “them” and we can juggle a couple groups of them, lumped by superficial characteristics because that’s how tribes identified themselves.
We couldn’t know every member of every tribe, so we judged everyone by their tribe.
People who strongly identify as LGBT, hate Chick-fil-A more than they hate McDonald’s, despite McDonald’s working closely with trump, treating their workers much worse, and serving vastly unhealthier food. And their CEO probably being just as against LGBT as chicfila’s.
All that matter is chicfila is “a bad tribe” so anyone that doesn’t treat that specific tribe as 100% an enemy, becomes an enemy of everyone slightly connected to LGBT in their eyes.
It’s not logical, but I understand why they’re doing it.
It just sucks that same behavior is exploited for issues much larger than a fucking chicken sandwich. If they “fight” chicfila with shit like comments in this thread, they get the same dopamine hit as doing anything productive, and then are less likely to actually be productive.
Bread and fucking circuses man.
The only way out of that maladaptive wiring, is treating every individual as a tribe of one, it’s just hard and brains are lazy.
Greasy beading that sloughs off the chicken immediately isn’t good by any metric, fast food or otherwise.
They also went to the supreme court so they could determine the healthcare their employees get. Company is rotten
Greasy beading that sloughs off the chicken immediately isn’t good by any metric, fast food or otherwise.
Ok buddy, but:
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That’s not the norm, and remember, this is in comparison to other fastfood options.
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If you’re boycotting them, how do you know that’s what it’s like?
But most importantly:
Company is rotten
I said every corporation sucks…
That includes chicfila…
They also went to the supreme court so they could determine the healthcare their employees get.
Not sure why you expect people to know what you’re referring too…
You keep trying to make this about other companies for whatever reason. No one cares. Chick-fil-A food just isn’t good
Yea over gross food is the norm. I’ve been to several ones in ours and adjacent states. Never had a meal that was good.
Not exactly a small sample size.
No, that is the norm. And has been for years.
Occasionally for work functions, someone else brings some in. And, because I have eyes, I can see them falling apart before even being picked up. And I conclude that I’m still not missing out on anything.
Why go to bat for this shitty food?
So you’ve never eaten it and are judging it as bad food?
Apparently reading comprehension is not a required skill to be a chikfila shill.
It’s the writing that needs work. Your comments heavily suggest that you only have seen the food but never halve eaten it. Is that incorrect?
Why go to bat for this shitty food?
Why are you ignoring how bad everything else is?
Hell, look at what McDonald’s gives trump…
But for fucks sake man, when someone says “every corporation is bad” they’re not defending any of them…
I have no idea why you can’t understand that, but I’m sure as shit not hanging around for a miracle and I really don’t care if it finally clicked or not.
What are you on about? Why do you have such a hard on for a corporation? McDonald’s fucking sucks too. This thread was explicitly talking about Chick-fil-A
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I contest the food part.
The last sandwich I had there was… fine. Squished, plain bun, thin breading, yet outrageously expensive.
A Raising Cain’s sandwich is way better. Even if price wasn’t a factor, and I couldn’t go local for some reason, I’d much, much rather have Steak and Shake, P Terry, Chicken Express, Rosa’s, Fuzzy’s, PDQ…
steak n shake is one of the things i really miss after moving to the DC area. other fancy burger places like five guys held me over for a while, but they don’t hit like steak n shake.
Has Freddy’s made its way up to DC yet? I may dare say it’s better.
When I lived in DMV, five guys was a new thing and it was so awesome. Cheap, fast, amazing. They had so much business that they would “soup Nazi” people if they didn’t know what they wanted after waiting in line.
I’m sorry but it’s not good. I’ve eaten at multiple locations and I would 100% rather have chicken sandwiches or fried chicken from local places we have here instead. Their food is overrated.
I don’t care for their politics but that has nothing to do with crappy food.
You like their food (objective, so there’s no “lying” around that), and so excuse their politics. I get it, it’s like separating the artist from the art. Lots of people pay to see Tom Cruise movies, or now to see Ed Sheeran, or maybe Bill Burr.
Some people don’t.
You like their food
What the fuck are you talking about?
I said compared to every other fastfood place that uses processed chicken patties, it’s good.
Some people don’t.
The other point you e completely missed:
So if anyone is boycotting Chick-fil-A, they have valid reasons. It’s just damn near every other option is even worse, so if they have consistent logic their boycott list is every major corporation.
How the fuck is “So if anyone is boycotting Chick-fil-A, they have valid reasons” defending chicfila’s politics?!
I’m saying boycotting them is valid
But only boycotting them is illogical
This part:
If someone’s only issue with Chick-fil-A is the anti-lgbt stuff, that doesn’t mean they’re a good person, it means they only care about the demographic they consider “us”.
If you want to make another thread about how you want to boycott all fast food restaurants, go ahead and do that. No one is stopping you.
Saying that boycotting chic fil alone out of all the fast food companies is illogical, in a comment thread about the specific harms they’re doing, is defending them by throwing up a smoke screen. “They’re all bad”. Ok… But bringing that up here is diverting the conversation. Which i am participating in…
Listen, I’m not going to tell them to get bent for doing the only sane thing they’ve ever done, but I’m not throwing them a welcome-to-the-family party either. The lesser evil is still evil and I will continue to avoid so much as letting my shadow darken their doorway.
Tried this place for the first time out of curiosity and it was trash. Never going back.
Their spicy chicken is decent by fast food standards.
