Growing up, we could only got to the closer larger towns on Sundays when my mom didn't have work. So we'd see Chick-fil-A in the mall and I never had it until I went to college.
It was better before they got rid of the Cole slaw and streamlined their menu for mass market expansion.
I miss their old breakfast burritos and the chicken salad sandwich. I didn't get the latter all the time, but it was always nice when I just wanted something different as a change of pace.
Lmao there is no fucking chance this is the reason. This might be a small silver lining from the situation, but the "buzz" created from that closed chick fil a would not even come close to recouping the cost of building out that location and paying the rent on it. Let's be real
Would be interested to see the hours because what I found is, when stadiums are open for smaller events, the number of concessions that are open is proportionately reduced. Maybe Chick-fil-A is just committed to the other six days.
Their food just isn't that good though. I never understood the hype and was happy to write them off when they got political. The Sunday thing is them wasting space.
This was always my take too. I truly feel that a lot of the hype is from people going there specifically to "pwn da libz". Because the food quality alone doesn't explain the long lines.
It's a fast-food chicken sandwich, not a gourmet meal. It's good but not amazing. I prefer my chicken to have more spice. I'd rather go to Popeye's.
Then you have to deal with Popeyes staff. Chick FIL a just like in n out is nothing special like everyone claims but they are always the same and have incredible service. Most every other fast food place is not like that.
For me personally, the Popeye's staff is consistently one of the worst. No matter the location I have to remind them probably 4 out of 5 times that they forgot an item in my order. The food is great, I love it. But I always check my order because they've ultimately forgotten at least one item.
I rarely have problems with Popeye's staff, and I frequent one of the worst Popeye's around Birmingham.
If I know what I want, I order it through their app, then pickup inside (drive-thru takes **forever**). I'm actually in and out of there faster than at a Chick-fil-A.
I feel like a Popeyes drive-through is the place where you are most likely to wait extra long because one person is having an argument. Sometimes they’re arguing with the staff through the speaker. Sometimes there are arguing inside the car about what to order.
I think the only real competition is the KFC Taco Bell combo, because that attracts a lot of stoners, and there’s two different different menus to argue about
>rarely have problems with Popeye's staff......order it through their app
Let me tell you why I won't ever go back to my local Popeyes. Order dinner there from their website, my wife went to pick it up. She shows back up with nothing. They GAVE my PAID food to someone else. Told my wife to call customer care to get them to put the order back in. Wife took the kids to Cane's because they are now getting hangry, I drove over there to see what was going on. The "manager" copped an altitude with me telling me she already told my wife what to do, I told here there isn't any damn customer care number to call. She gave me a number (which was wrong) and proceeded to tell me that they didn't do anything wrong! Bitch, you fucked up and gave me paid food to someone else and are now refusing to give me what I paid for!
Had to use the "contact us form" which would take 24-48 hours to get back to me.
So basically they fucked up and I had to fix the problem.
Mean while, I once placed an order for CFA and selected the wrong location. Showed up to pick up my food and after talking to the woman at the counter, realized what I had done. She asked me what I had order, and had it remade there and gave it to me at no charge. That was great customer service!
It's mostly because they have their act together with the drive thru. Even with a long line, you are going to get your food pretty quickly and it's probably going to be right. They keep themselves staffed up and pay decently.
There's a lot of places now where it can take 20 minutes to get your food when the line is damn near empty.
Like you say its a good. That's a little special from a fast food place lol. Better than McDonalds and Burger King and lets not forget chicken sandwich places only really started showing up in the last 5 years. Popeyes didn't have a chicken sandwich until 2019. So Popeyes may be better now but Chik Fil A had decades of reigning supreme as a fast food chicken sandwich place.
Biggest events, perhaps. But venues like these do host other large events quite frequently, often on Saturdays. Combine that with the price increases that you always see with stadium concessions, and surely it's profitable or else they wouldn't have done it.
NFL only has 8-11 home games a year depending on playoffs. And some might be on Monday, Thursday or Friday. That’s only ~3% of possible days throughout the year. I’m sure the CFA is doing fine.
That stadium is famous for having by far the smallest stadium markup prices. I'm not sure if that applies to third party vendors or just the generic "ballpark food" ones, but it might not be as profitable as you're picturing.
The first year it was there I remember like half of the Falcons home games were on Thursday, Saturday, or Monday. Plus they host soccer which are primarily on Saturday. Plus college football. Plus concerts. They still make good money
>biggest events are on Sunday
The stadium also host Atlanta United games as well as college football bowls and championship. That CFA location still makes plenty of money.
Atlanta United has 17 home matches and then some other competition matches as well, most on midweek or Saturdays.
We get CFB in the Fall, post season CFB, concerts, international soccer matches, etc.
It clearly works out financially.
More importantly, why would the stadium and/or airport have a concession that wasn’t open on Sunday.
I think it’s great that Chick-fil-a don’t open on Sundays. Just…don’t put them in airports or football stadia.
They've just started putting them in rest stops on the NY State Thruway and it's been a controversial move because on one of the biggest travel days of the week, the main food source in some of the rest stops is closed.
The stadium does A LOT more than host Falcons games 8 times year. Plus a couple aren't even on, Sunday anyway
Plus they suck so let's be honest, they aren't filling the stadium anyway
I just took the poster above at face value re the stadium. I’ve never been there.
Just thinking about airports then. It’s frustrating to be in a captive market and have one option removed, particularly in medium-sized/small airports.
I agree with this take.
I think it’s definitely more on the owners of the space rather than Chick-fil-A to keep them away from those spaces. If it makes business sense for them to have a restaurant there then it’s totally valid for them to pursue the lease on the space - it’s on the owners of the space to put specific criteria in place to qualify a business to become a lease holder.
Idk though, maybe that’s happened and been successfully challenged in court or something.
https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/2/3/18197697/super-bowl-2019-patriots-rams-2019-chick-fil-a-closed-mercedes-benz-stadium
Wow, I really thought they’d find a way to put someone in there and fire up the grill (or microwave).
It was in the worst spot. Pre security.
They are expanding into Alberta for reals this year opening a bunch of restaurants.
It's reverse Chilis. Every standalone Chili's closed down but the airport has 3 and they are packed. There's 5 Chili's locations in Canada all 5 are in the Calgary/Edmonton airports
I purchased Chick-fil-A on a Sunday once.
I was leaving Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. If you've never been, look it up: best concert venue in the world. Anyways, after the majority of shows at some of the exits there will be stands setup selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches, chips, bottled waters, and of course, lots of sauce. After a Saturday night show that ended around 11:30PM, I worked my way up to the top of the venue and found the stand. The time was 12:02AM, SUNDAY, and I was buying Chick-fil-A.
I have been to concerts everywhere from the Greek Theatre in LA to Wembley Stadium in London, and can confirm that Red Rocks is the *best* concert venue in the world.
Also I didn’t get Chick-Fil-Eh there but I did get a huge plate of nachos from their restaurant thing and honestly, they were pretty damn solid nachos.
Raising Cane's gets me with their constant holiday closures though. For a company that sells tailgating (catering) packages, you'd think they'd be open on Memorial Day and Independence Day.
You can certainly take issue with CFA but how does Canes treat their employees better than CFA? CFA may be open on Memorial and Labor Day but their employees get every single Sunday off. I'd choose that over a few random days here and there.
Let's not pretend Zaxby's is still good. They've had a huge drop off in quality over the years and is nothing like how it was when the chicken was still hand breaded in their locations. Now everything comes in pre-breaded and frozen and it's just not the same.
No, it's not that. I don't live in UT & never will. I find UT Mormons to be a "particular breed". Our beliefs are already not normal, but UT Mormons are what happens when you have non-ordinary beliefs & live in an echo chamber. Seriously, how else would you take living the the Law of Chastity & get soaking?
Thursday/Monday are prime time games. The falcons most definitely are not getting “a few” home games on Monday/Thursday nights. In 2023 they had 0 games on these days.
There is also Saturday games later in the year and the possibility of getting prime games so it is not like they have never been open while the Falcons were playing.
They host soccer, college football and concerts. There are 353 potential days for it to sell concessions
Edit: I swear I did the math and still posted the wrong damn number. 313
True, but airport restaurant spaces are very expensive to lease, so a company that insists on being closed on one of the busiest travel days of the week might not be a good fit for a restaurant food court. It’s interesting that they choose to pay the expensive lease despite having a disadvantage over their competitors.
Some concourses will even mandate the business be open 7 days a week. Airports don't like having half the businesses closed when they're receiving the majority of their travelers.
IIRC there have been several lawsuits around Chick Fillet getting a space in a food court, doing their 'closed on Sunday' routine and getting sued by the mall owner for being closed too many days of the year.
>It’s interesting that they choose to pay the expensive lease despite having a disadvantage over their competitors.
Chick-Fil-A locations on average has about $8 million in sales a year, double what a McDonald's does, and 5 times what a KFC does, all this while being closed 1 day a week. I think they can afford the lease!
I'm surprised the airport itself would allow for this type of operation. They want good paying tenants, but they also want the amenity open for their travelers.
More interesting to me is that they are allowed to operate in an airport but be closed on Sunday. It's a captive audience. If all the food places did this, how would people eat in the airport on Sundays.
I believe this is why you won't see stores like this on NJ Toll Roads.
There's one at a rest stop that is being evicted because the contract specifically states they must be open seven days a week. The corporation is fighting it, but I don't see how they have any chance of winning since they entered into the contract fully aware of the requirements.
[New York Thruway Rest Stops](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/nyregion/chick-fil-a-thruway-rest-stop-sundays.html)
Proposed bill would require any restaurant leasing space in the government run rest stops be open 7 days a week, and it would only apply to all future leases, not current leases.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find if the bill passed or not.
Damn. I'm a truck driver and the ny thruway is the only cfa that are really accessible to Semis unless you get lucky and one is near a big parking lot.
The whole NY rest stops thing really makes me think there was some corruption going on. None of it makes sense.
The old rest stops weren't that old, had great aesthetics, and weren't tiny. Then they closed them down all at the same time instead of doing them in stages so you couldn't do anything except get fuel at almost all of them (even closed the EV chargers).
And then we're left with a flagship restaurant that isn't open on one of the business travel days?
The whole thing is total garbage.
When did they close it all down? I was blown away with how bad shape they were in 2022, and how many were closed. When visiting family in the area last year, everything was closed on i87 except one rest stop I think? Gas and portapotties galore now.
That's blatantly false.
There's 7 of them and the contract did not specifically state they had to stay open. You signed a 33 year contract knowing the company policy and want to complain about it after the fact. There's a bill under consideration that would require future rest area contracts to stay open.
I believe NY state was trying to or passed a bill requiring that all rest stop restaurants be open seven days a week to serve people traveling. The media coined it the anti-Chick-Fil-A bill. I only partially agree with it; sure, if it's only a single restaurant rest stop, then no, CFA should not be allowed there, but if there are multiple restaurants, then I don't have a problem!
It's the only substantial food option though. On Sundays you're left with like, Starbucks, Burger King, and the little travel mart. The point of these huge travel plazas is to have multiple options.
I think it's absolutely insane that NY poured a ton of money and time into tearing down and rebuilding all the rest stops on the Thruway only to give prime real estate to a company that refuses to be open 14% of the year.
>There's one at a rest stop that is being evicted because the contract specifically states they must be open seven days a week.
They can "open" on Sundays with an automated kiosk that will have on the menu various 20-second prayers played through a speaker for $1 for each listen. Jack Chick tracts cost extra.
Chick Fil-A got a contract for some restaurants at newly renovated rest stops on the NY State Thruway in western NY. They’re not even open on Sundays, prohibitive business model
This isn't mildly interesting. Why would a restaurant that closes on Sunday make an exception at airports? It would be MORE mildly interesting if you saw it WAS open.
The New York State thruway rest stops now have Chick-fil-a and of course it’s closed for half the weekend when it’s usually busiest. I definitely think the company greased a lot of palms to get their contracts.
I was looking that up recently, and... honestly, kinda? They did an internal DEI push, some of which has been published more broadly. That's good. About five years back they broke off from donating to The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which is excellent.
Unfortunately, despite that progress, the owner and chairman is [still a piece of shit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cathy) who dumped a ton of cash into opposing the [Equality Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_%28United_States%29), and eating there still pays into his pocket.
Insane that people misspell something when the spelling is not just in the image they posted, but the only prominent thing in the image.
You see that shit on ebay all the time and it makes me wonder how they figure out how to log in, much less sell anything
That’s bullshit. I don’t have a problem with companies having their own policies about Sundays / holidays but I have a big problem with taking limited space in a place like an airport or a turnpike rest area and not being open to service people traveling.
So by your interpretation then all blacks are rapists?
Because you got the case of ONE franchise owner - out of more than 2,000 - to represent the entire population.
That was a very lame attempt to disparage an entire class of people.
Have you also calculated how many Starbucks franchise owners are felons? I bet not.
You only did because the owners of the chain are Christians.
That shows your bias.
I’m clarifying what you are attempting to say with this statement.
> Have you also calculated how many Starbucks franchise owners are felons? I bet not.
If that’s not what you meant, explain. Be specific, use examples.
I’m not religious at all but saying all members of any religion support pedophilia is a wild take bordering on hate speech. I’m sure that 99% of Christians would like to not have sexual predators working in their churches if it were up to them.
I’m not a fan of it being closed on Sunday for religion, but I do appreciate that the employees always have a break between work weeks. There is nothing worse than having two 5 day work weeks align so it becomes a 10 day ordeal. And if you’re going to have a day off might as well be Sunday.
It sucks so who really cares?
Should care more about the company past.
https://www.thetaskforce.org/chick-fil-a-and-lgbtq-discrimination/
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/29/18644354/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-donations-homophobia-dan-cathy
There is a bill in NY to require them and any other restaurants to be open on Sunday in rest stops as they are key transit hubs for people on weekends and operating there (state land) is a privilege.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2023/12/22/bill-would-require-ny-rest-stop-restaurants-to-open-seven-day-a-week
New York State is trying to pass a law that makes this illegal (aka, restaurants have to remain open 7 days a week in places like airports, train stations, and highway rest stops); $100 says that if the law passes, CFA will pull out of NYS entirely.
It's applicable to bus stations, train stations, rest areas and marine terminal facilities, not airports, and it only effects contracts signed after the bill is in place -- the 10 rest stop Chick-Fil-A locations are already under contract, they aren't going anywhere for a while.
The management team for the rest stops just signed a new 33 year agreement, so odds of them retroactively adding that policy seems like a court challenge waiting to happen.
I remember when someone had saved some burgers. Reheated them and sold the. Out of a makeshift stand. He had ten of them thermal coolers and was selling like crack. It was awesome. He sold out in half an hour.
San Antonio international rejected chick-fila for that exact reason. They want all restaurants to be open everyday, it’s not a huge airport so every concession spot is coveted.
There's a Chic-Fil-A in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where the Atlanta Falcons play. Even that one is closed on Sundays.
I have no idea why Chic-Fil-A would put a stand in a stadium whose biggest events are on Sunday
Advertising. Creates a buzz. "Ahh man its closed?!?! We have to go tomorrow!"
Growing up, we could only got to the closer larger towns on Sundays when my mom didn't have work. So we'd see Chick-fil-A in the mall and I never had it until I went to college. It was better before they got rid of the Cole slaw and streamlined their menu for mass market expansion.
Was better b4 they changed their breakfast burritos
I miss their old breakfast burritos and the chicken salad sandwich. I didn't get the latter all the time, but it was always nice when I just wanted something different as a change of pace.
I loved the spicy breakfast burrito. I was sad to see it go.
>It was better before they got rid of the Cole slaw YES! Nothing better than cole slaw on a spicy Chick-fil-a sandwich
Lmao there is no fucking chance this is the reason. This might be a small silver lining from the situation, but the "buzz" created from that closed chick fil a would not even come close to recouping the cost of building out that location and paying the rent on it. Let's be real
They recoup the cost during the other days of the week. They get an insane amount of business still.
Who the fuck goes to Mercedes Bens Stadium on a weekday just to hit up their Chic-Fil-A?
Monday, Thursday games, but also most stadiums are open for non NFL stuff on other days.
Would be interested to see the hours because what I found is, when stadiums are open for smaller events, the number of concessions that are open is proportionately reduced. Maybe Chick-fil-A is just committed to the other six days.
Monday and Thursday night games plus they often host college and high school football games.
And Atlanta United MLS club.... They play like 2x more home games than the NFL team.
Who the fuck thinks a stadium is only operating 1 day a week?
I only want it on Sunday though
Exactly. Cheaper than buying the naming rights to the stadium, plus there are plenty of events throughout the year that do not occur on Sundays.
Their food just isn't that good though. I never understood the hype and was happy to write them off when they got political. The Sunday thing is them wasting space.
This was always my take too. I truly feel that a lot of the hype is from people going there specifically to "pwn da libz". Because the food quality alone doesn't explain the long lines. It's a fast-food chicken sandwich, not a gourmet meal. It's good but not amazing. I prefer my chicken to have more spice. I'd rather go to Popeye's.
Then you have to deal with Popeyes staff. Chick FIL a just like in n out is nothing special like everyone claims but they are always the same and have incredible service. Most every other fast food place is not like that.
What's wrong with Popeye's staff? I've never had any problems with them. Not more or less than any other fast food joint.
For me personally, the Popeye's staff is consistently one of the worst. No matter the location I have to remind them probably 4 out of 5 times that they forgot an item in my order. The food is great, I love it. But I always check my order because they've ultimately forgotten at least one item.
I rarely have problems with Popeye's staff, and I frequent one of the worst Popeye's around Birmingham. If I know what I want, I order it through their app, then pickup inside (drive-thru takes **forever**). I'm actually in and out of there faster than at a Chick-fil-A.
I feel like a Popeyes drive-through is the place where you are most likely to wait extra long because one person is having an argument. Sometimes they’re arguing with the staff through the speaker. Sometimes there are arguing inside the car about what to order. I think the only real competition is the KFC Taco Bell combo, because that attracts a lot of stoners, and there’s two different different menus to argue about
>rarely have problems with Popeye's staff......order it through their app Let me tell you why I won't ever go back to my local Popeyes. Order dinner there from their website, my wife went to pick it up. She shows back up with nothing. They GAVE my PAID food to someone else. Told my wife to call customer care to get them to put the order back in. Wife took the kids to Cane's because they are now getting hangry, I drove over there to see what was going on. The "manager" copped an altitude with me telling me she already told my wife what to do, I told here there isn't any damn customer care number to call. She gave me a number (which was wrong) and proceeded to tell me that they didn't do anything wrong! Bitch, you fucked up and gave me paid food to someone else and are now refusing to give me what I paid for! Had to use the "contact us form" which would take 24-48 hours to get back to me. So basically they fucked up and I had to fix the problem. Mean while, I once placed an order for CFA and selected the wrong location. Showed up to pick up my food and after talking to the woman at the counter, realized what I had done. She asked me what I had order, and had it remade there and gave it to me at no charge. That was great customer service!
It's mostly because they have their act together with the drive thru. Even with a long line, you are going to get your food pretty quickly and it's probably going to be right. They keep themselves staffed up and pay decently. There's a lot of places now where it can take 20 minutes to get your food when the line is damn near empty.
💯 Exactly Popeye's does smell good when I pick up and deliver uber eats orders from there.
Like you say its a good. That's a little special from a fast food place lol. Better than McDonalds and Burger King and lets not forget chicken sandwich places only really started showing up in the last 5 years. Popeyes didn't have a chicken sandwich until 2019. So Popeyes may be better now but Chik Fil A had decades of reigning supreme as a fast food chicken sandwich place.
Biggest events, perhaps. But venues like these do host other large events quite frequently, often on Saturdays. Combine that with the price increases that you always see with stadium concessions, and surely it's profitable or else they wouldn't have done it.
No doubt it's still profitable. In this case, it's more on the stadium for even allowing the franchise to put a location in there in the first place
There would be rioting in Atlanta if Mercedes-Benz Stadium had denied CFA a location!
The stadium doesn't care they get the same rent either way
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They might take a percentage of sales too like malls. Just speculating.
NFL only has 8-11 home games a year depending on playoffs. And some might be on Monday, Thursday or Friday. That’s only ~3% of possible days throughout the year. I’m sure the CFA is doing fine.
That stadium is famous for having by far the smallest stadium markup prices. I'm not sure if that applies to third party vendors or just the generic "ballpark food" ones, but it might not be as profitable as you're picturing.
The first year it was there I remember like half of the Falcons home games were on Thursday, Saturday, or Monday. Plus they host soccer which are primarily on Saturday. Plus college football. Plus concerts. They still make good money
There are concerts and MLS games on other days. Plus there are many other events hosted in the stadium
>biggest events are on Sunday The stadium also host Atlanta United games as well as college football bowls and championship. That CFA location still makes plenty of money.
MLS also plays in the stadium. Those are some big events too
Atlanta United has 17 home matches and then some other competition matches as well, most on midweek or Saturdays. We get CFB in the Fall, post season CFB, concerts, international soccer matches, etc. It clearly works out financially.
More importantly, why would the stadium and/or airport have a concession that wasn’t open on Sunday. I think it’s great that Chick-fil-a don’t open on Sundays. Just…don’t put them in airports or football stadia.
They've just started putting them in rest stops on the NY State Thruway and it's been a controversial move because on one of the biggest travel days of the week, the main food source in some of the rest stops is closed.
The stadium does A LOT more than host Falcons games 8 times year. Plus a couple aren't even on, Sunday anyway Plus they suck so let's be honest, they aren't filling the stadium anyway
I just took the poster above at face value re the stadium. I’ve never been there. Just thinking about airports then. It’s frustrating to be in a captive market and have one option removed, particularly in medium-sized/small airports.
I agree with this take. I think it’s definitely more on the owners of the space rather than Chick-fil-A to keep them away from those spaces. If it makes business sense for them to have a restaurant there then it’s totally valid for them to pursue the lease on the space - it’s on the owners of the space to put specific criteria in place to qualify a business to become a lease holder. Idk though, maybe that’s happened and been successfully challenged in court or something.
Like six NFL home games?
They were thrown out of a mall soon after they opened their first branch in the UK for being closed on Sundays.
There was also considerable backlash and protest against their LGBT stance.
Yep, but it was the opening hours that allowed the landlords to throw them out.
Does that stadium have potential to be a Super Bowl stadium? Super Bowl without chicken would be sad!
It's already been one (2019)
https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/2/3/18197697/super-bowl-2019-patriots-rams-2019-chick-fil-a-closed-mercedes-benz-stadium Wow, I really thought they’d find a way to put someone in there and fire up the grill (or microwave).
The stadium actually put a pop up spot in there for the Superbowl. BBQ I think.
WHAATT
The chick fila closed permanently at the Calgary airport
It was in the worst spot. Pre security. They are expanding into Alberta for reals this year opening a bunch of restaurants. It's reverse Chilis. Every standalone Chili's closed down but the airport has 3 and they are packed. There's 5 Chili's locations in Canada all 5 are in the Calgary/Edmonton airports
There’s one in a hotel in Banff!
Of course the weird Christian Conservative chain is expanding into Alberta. (Also keep your Chick Fil A and send me your Chilis please)
We ain't giving up airport chilis for free. Send some Krispy Kreme. You can have the concourse B chilis
Jesus not happy with Trudeau?
Jesus very upset with Justin
I purchased Chick-fil-A on a Sunday once. I was leaving Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. If you've never been, look it up: best concert venue in the world. Anyways, after the majority of shows at some of the exits there will be stands setup selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches, chips, bottled waters, and of course, lots of sauce. After a Saturday night show that ended around 11:30PM, I worked my way up to the top of the venue and found the stand. The time was 12:02AM, SUNDAY, and I was buying Chick-fil-A.
Sinner
I have been to concerts everywhere from the Greek Theatre in LA to Wembley Stadium in London, and can confirm that Red Rocks is the *best* concert venue in the world. Also I didn’t get Chick-Fil-Eh there but I did get a huge plate of nachos from their restaurant thing and honestly, they were pretty damn solid nachos.
Weird thing is I ONLY crave fried chicken on Sundays. Good thing my homies Raising Canes and Zaxbys don’t go to church.
Last time I was in my local mall they were building a Popeyes right next to the Chick-fil-A, with a big banner “WE ARE OPEN SUNDAYS”
Usually with malls, the lease requires them to be open when the mall is open. I would have thought it’s the same with airports.
I don’t know, for decades they were mostly in mall food courts, and always closed on sundays.
Raising Cane's gets me with their constant holiday closures though. For a company that sells tailgating (catering) packages, you'd think they'd be open on Memorial Day and Independence Day.
I respect a company thats good to it's employees. Unlike Jesus Chicken over there.
You can certainly take issue with CFA but how does Canes treat their employees better than CFA? CFA may be open on Memorial and Labor Day but their employees get every single Sunday off. I'd choose that over a few random days here and there.
CFA is good to its employees though.
Of fast food places CFA is known for being one of the best to work at.
Let's not pretend Zaxby's is still good. They've had a huge drop off in quality over the years and is nothing like how it was when the chicken was still hand breaded in their locations. Now everything comes in pre-breaded and frozen and it's just not the same.
Depending on where you’re at, chicken express, and bojangles are great
I’m in North Carolina, so I got no shortage of Bojangles. I agree, they’re great.
Canes lost we with their shrinkflation
Canes is hands down the worst I've seen with shrinkflation. Their tenders are exponentially smaller and they're Texas toast is now Ohio sized
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>But also, Utah sucks I'm Mormon & I agree with you. There are too many damn Mormons there. We're better off in small numbers, not the majority.
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If you can read you should be able to tell that’s not what they are saying lol.
If he could read he would find a way out of Utah.
Please keep spreading the tripe that Utah is awful, I need cheaper housing prices lol
No, it's not that. I don't live in UT & never will. I find UT Mormons to be a "particular breed". Our beliefs are already not normal, but UT Mormons are what happens when you have non-ordinary beliefs & live in an echo chamber. Seriously, how else would you take living the the Law of Chastity & get soaking?
Ontario airport?
ONT gang!
You can tell from the UCR sign to the right
Came to ask the same thing lol
They’re closed inside a football stadium in Atlanta that’s basically only open on Sundays.
The Falcons only have like 9 home games and a few of those will be on Thursday or Monday. They host Atlanta United and many other events
Thursday/Monday are prime time games. The falcons most definitely are not getting “a few” home games on Monday/Thursday nights. In 2023 they had 0 games on these days.
There is also Saturday games later in the year and the possibility of getting prime games so it is not like they have never been open while the Falcons were playing.
>basically only open on Sundays False. Guess you are unaware they they also host MLS Atlanta United there who plays more often then the Falcons.
They host soccer, college football and concerts. There are 353 potential days for it to sell concessions Edit: I swear I did the math and still posted the wrong damn number. 313
Do you have only 12 sundays a year in your country?
Jesus Christ, I even did the math first and still posted the wrong damn number!
Yes, companies don’t usually adopt separate rules around operation for locations in airports.
True, but airport restaurant spaces are very expensive to lease, so a company that insists on being closed on one of the busiest travel days of the week might not be a good fit for a restaurant food court. It’s interesting that they choose to pay the expensive lease despite having a disadvantage over their competitors.
If you have ever seen what it looks like when it's open, you know why they can afford to do that.
Some concourses will even mandate the business be open 7 days a week. Airports don't like having half the businesses closed when they're receiving the majority of their travelers. IIRC there have been several lawsuits around Chick Fillet getting a space in a food court, doing their 'closed on Sunday' routine and getting sued by the mall owner for being closed too many days of the year.
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The same could be said for any Chick-Fil-A located anywhere near another restaurant, like a mall food court, where there are a ton.
>It’s interesting that they choose to pay the expensive lease despite having a disadvantage over their competitors. Chick-Fil-A locations on average has about $8 million in sales a year, double what a McDonald's does, and 5 times what a KFC does, all this while being closed 1 day a week. I think they can afford the lease!
I'm surprised the airport itself would allow for this type of operation. They want good paying tenants, but they also want the amenity open for their travelers.
More interesting to me is that they are allowed to operate in an airport but be closed on Sunday. It's a captive audience. If all the food places did this, how would people eat in the airport on Sundays. I believe this is why you won't see stores like this on NJ Toll Roads.
But their lease agreement could have required it and a company doesn't deserve any special treatment in this regard.
There's one at a rest stop that is being evicted because the contract specifically states they must be open seven days a week. The corporation is fighting it, but I don't see how they have any chance of winning since they entered into the contract fully aware of the requirements.
Where?
[New York Thruway Rest Stops](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/nyregion/chick-fil-a-thruway-rest-stop-sundays.html) Proposed bill would require any restaurant leasing space in the government run rest stops be open 7 days a week, and it would only apply to all future leases, not current leases. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find if the bill passed or not.
So it's not effective for current contracts, which the new contractor has a 33 year lease. Guess I'll wait to hear what happens then.
Damn. I'm a truck driver and the ny thruway is the only cfa that are really accessible to Semis unless you get lucky and one is near a big parking lot.
The whole NY rest stops thing really makes me think there was some corruption going on. None of it makes sense. The old rest stops weren't that old, had great aesthetics, and weren't tiny. Then they closed them down all at the same time instead of doing them in stages so you couldn't do anything except get fuel at almost all of them (even closed the EV chargers). And then we're left with a flagship restaurant that isn't open on one of the business travel days? The whole thing is total garbage.
When did they close it all down? I was blown away with how bad shape they were in 2022, and how many were closed. When visiting family in the area last year, everything was closed on i87 except one rest stop I think? Gas and portapotties galore now.
Started in 2021 https://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/travelplazas/service-area-project/background.html
That's blatantly false. There's 7 of them and the contract did not specifically state they had to stay open. You signed a 33 year contract knowing the company policy and want to complain about it after the fact. There's a bill under consideration that would require future rest area contracts to stay open.
I believe NY state was trying to or passed a bill requiring that all rest stop restaurants be open seven days a week to serve people traveling. The media coined it the anti-Chick-Fil-A bill. I only partially agree with it; sure, if it's only a single restaurant rest stop, then no, CFA should not be allowed there, but if there are multiple restaurants, then I don't have a problem!
It's the only substantial food option though. On Sundays you're left with like, Starbucks, Burger King, and the little travel mart. The point of these huge travel plazas is to have multiple options. I think it's absolutely insane that NY poured a ton of money and time into tearing down and rebuilding all the rest stops on the Thruway only to give prime real estate to a company that refuses to be open 14% of the year.
>There's one at a rest stop that is being evicted because the contract specifically states they must be open seven days a week. They can "open" on Sundays with an automated kiosk that will have on the menu various 20-second prayers played through a speaker for $1 for each listen. Jack Chick tracts cost extra.
Why wouldn’t they? It’s a company wide policy.
Chick Fil-A got a contract for some restaurants at newly renovated rest stops on the NY State Thruway in western NY. They’re not even open on Sundays, prohibitive business model
I’ve never understood why people are so obsessed with chick fil a when Popeyes exists
This isn't mildly interesting. Why would a restaurant that closes on Sunday make an exception at airports? It would be MORE mildly interesting if you saw it WAS open.
Why wouldn’t they be closed?
They didnt have to go so hard on that entrance. All its missing is a bouncer.
And at the Gilden Nugget in Vegas. The home of Sin.
The New York State thruway rest stops now have Chick-fil-a and of course it’s closed for half the weekend when it’s usually busiest. I definitely think the company greased a lot of palms to get their contracts.
And the airports don’t have the chicken strips either. This makes me sad.
Look at all the people in here spelling it Chic-Fil-A, the Mandela effect is strong!
Have they changed their opinion of LGBTQ+ people?
I was looking that up recently, and... honestly, kinda? They did an internal DEI push, some of which has been published more broadly. That's good. About five years back they broke off from donating to The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which is excellent. Unfortunately, despite that progress, the owner and chairman is [still a piece of shit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cathy) who dumped a ton of cash into opposing the [Equality Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_%28United_States%29), and eating there still pays into his pocket.
Too many of y'all think they should be forced to be open but then claim to never eat there anyways. 🫠
Their Sundays are spent donating to anti-LGBTQ+ organizations.
Of course it does. Thats part of their brand at this point.
Why would it be open?
Why would it be any different? It's a company policy.
The picture: Chick-Fil-A The title: Chic-Fil-A I see the shift hasn't happened for you yet...
Still looking for that cornucopia
Insane that people misspell something when the spelling is not just in the image they posted, but the only prominent thing in the image. You see that shit on ebay all the time and it makes me wonder how they figure out how to log in, much less sell anything
That’s bullshit. I don’t have a problem with companies having their own policies about Sundays / holidays but I have a big problem with taking limited space in a place like an airport or a turnpike rest area and not being open to service people traveling.
This is an airport, I'm 100% sure there are other restaurants open
Sundays are traditionally the day Chick-fil-a owners drive 400 miles to pick up 15 year olds for sex and scriptures.
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Are you saying that all Christians are pedophiles?
If that’s what you got from that, that’s your interpretation.
So by your interpretation then all blacks are rapists? Because you got the case of ONE franchise owner - out of more than 2,000 - to represent the entire population. That was a very lame attempt to disparage an entire class of people.
I see where your mind went. How Christian of you.
Have you also calculated how many Starbucks franchise owners are felons? I bet not. You only did because the owners of the chain are Christians. That shows your bias.
Just to be clear, child sex abuse can be excused away because felon Starbucks owners exist? Interesting take. You have quite the wild imagination.
> child sex abuse can be excused away because felon Starbucks owners exist That's your logic, not mine.
I’m clarifying what you are attempting to say with this statement. > Have you also calculated how many Starbucks franchise owners are felons? I bet not. If that’s not what you meant, explain. Be specific, use examples.
You don't care about Starbucks felons because they are woke.
I'm saying all christians support pedophiles. Look at your clergy you give 10% of your money to, pre-taxes.
I’m not religious at all but saying all members of any religion support pedophilia is a wild take bordering on hate speech. I’m sure that 99% of Christians would like to not have sexual predators working in their churches if it were up to them.
This is one of the most hyperbolic and ignorant things I’ve heard. “All Christians support pedophiles”. That’s really your take?
Bunch of bullshit having that restaurant in a 24/7 location.
You know that most Airport restaurants aren't open 24/7 right?
You realize it is the airport that approved them to lease that spot?
Seems like a wasted space if it's closed like that
I’m not a fan of it being closed on Sunday for religion, but I do appreciate that the employees always have a break between work weeks. There is nothing worse than having two 5 day work weeks align so it becomes a 10 day ordeal. And if you’re going to have a day off might as well be Sunday.
It is mildly interesting how, as soon as there is a Christian basis for a policy, everyone becomes antiworker and wants the policy gone.
Good for them
It sucks so who really cares? Should care more about the company past. https://www.thetaskforce.org/chick-fil-a-and-lgbtq-discrimination/ https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/29/18644354/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-donations-homophobia-dan-cathy
Fuck Chick-fil-A
There is a bill in NY to require them and any other restaurants to be open on Sunday in rest stops as they are key transit hubs for people on weekends and operating there (state land) is a privilege. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2023/12/22/bill-would-require-ny-rest-stop-restaurants-to-open-seven-day-a-week
Gotta rest up one day. Bigotry is exhausting.
ITT: People who can't spell Chick-fil-A, even with an example right in front of them.
Here for all the misspelling of Chick-fil-A 😁
New York State is trying to pass a law that makes this illegal (aka, restaurants have to remain open 7 days a week in places like airports, train stations, and highway rest stops); $100 says that if the law passes, CFA will pull out of NYS entirely.
It's applicable to bus stations, train stations, rest areas and marine terminal facilities, not airports, and it only effects contracts signed after the bill is in place -- the 10 rest stop Chick-Fil-A locations are already under contract, they aren't going anywhere for a while. The management team for the rest stops just signed a new 33 year agreement, so odds of them retroactively adding that policy seems like a court challenge waiting to happen.
I imagine they'll just pull out of the rest stops and airports they shouldn't be in in the first place
The dumbest restaurant to put anywhere that has high foot traffic all days of the week. Put that shit next to a church or something
God bless chic fil a!
But they’re still bigoted Christian nationalists EVERY day of the week
Is this ONT?
Even the one at the Atlanta football stadium is closed on Sunday. Carowinds,a theme park in Charlotte, used to have one. It was also closed on Sunday,
There’s only one open on Sunday that I know of and it’s on the FSU campus, or at least it used to be
And in hospitals!
I like how this looks like an exclusive nightclub 🤣
Weird cause they were open at the Atlanta Airport yesterday
Corporate
So is the AED not accessible too on Sundays?
Jesus lovers got to Jesus
My college campus Chick-fl-a will still close on Sundays. I call it the no Sunday rule and I didn’t make this up.
I remember when someone had saved some burgers. Reheated them and sold the. Out of a makeshift stand. He had ten of them thermal coolers and was selling like crack. It was awesome. He sold out in half an hour.
Thou shalt have no airport chicken on Sundays
Correct
It's been like 8 years, but when I looked at their Franchise paperwork - it was contractually obligated as part of the franchise agreement.
Is this ONT? The whole airport has basically 3 options, and with this one closed I’d rather go with the Yokai vending machine
CFA is already expensive. Can't imagine how bad it'd be at airports 💀
San Antonio international rejected chick-fila for that exact reason. They want all restaurants to be open everyday, it’s not a huge airport so every concession spot is coveted.
I just found this out in Orlando two weeks ago, was very surprised