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      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.

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        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.

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          The streamlined menu makes it so the line goes pretty fast.

          Even when it’s around the building it’ll only take 10 min.

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            I’ve only been to CFA a few times, but even with lines wrapped around the building I don’t think I’ve ever waited longer than 10 minutes. Burger King is regularly that long of a wait and I was actually stuck waiting 20 minutes at McDonald’s last week (they asked me to pull up and pretty sure they forgot about me.) I try to plan ahead and not rely so much on fast food, but as much time as I spend in my car driving for work, I’m usually stopping somewhere 1-2x a week.

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          They usually have double lanes and are taking orders throughout the line as shown above, the lines always long but seldom slow.

          That said fuck bigot-chicken

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          I’ve never waited more than 16ish min for food, and that is an extremely long wait for them. It is always super fast, so idk where you are pulling this 1 hour long wait time stuff from unless you are talking about their opening weekends for new ones.

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          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

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                Condemning organizations which support hate speech and eroding of civil rights is too ‘political’, we better just not talk about it.

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                It’s chicken. It isn’t political

                THE COMPANY MADE IT POLITICAL. Is it easier to understand who brought politics into the dinner conversation if it’s in larger letters?

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                  It’s sound you are making excuses that damage the community. It’s funny you want to seem holier than though when I don’t even eat there. I just don’t do it for political reasons. If I thought the food was good I would eat there because of the way they treat their employees.

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                Why are you arguing when you know you don’t know what they’re talking about, and a quick Google search can verify what they’re saying? Or are you just playing stupid?

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                  Maybe you are simple but I clearly described that to me it’s chicken. I get with your slacktivism you think you are saving the world but you just look silly to me. While you not buying chicken shows you are stopping whatever imaginary threat you think is real, I don’t buy the chicken because I don’t like it. I can’t prove a negative. When you google, it comes back with nothing recent since CFA stopped donating to certain groups many years ago.

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                I just looked at your profile, and man I have not seen anyone have such a strong downvote count. I mean, I don’t look at profiles a lot, but still. You’re a politically-edgy little bastard, aren’t you?

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        Is the chicken even that good?, no way they don’t come from a CAFO. Stressed out chicken meat taste like water to me.

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          Idk what the hell everyone else is talking about. Their chicken has always been great. When i get chicken from other fast food places its always hit or miss, and even on their best day, it’s as good as chick fil a on one of their average days. Hell, I’ve never had a dry or overcooked or small portion of chicken from them, and they always pay their workers well.

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      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.

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        there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

        the only valid critique in the thread.

        Although I am a bit tired of it amounting to an excuse of not trying to do positive things at all.

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        there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

        This applies more for corporations that own unavoidable infrastructure than restaurants with ample alternatives. The former would cost you a lot to forego and interfere with more effective praxis, while the latter costs nothing to support gay rights.

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        there is no ethical conumption under capitalism

        I get this and understand to the point that I dont judge people too hard for just getting it out of convenience.

        That said I feel like it’s an easy mark to boycott. At it’s best it’s just fast food chicken and the creators have an active hand in anti lgbt and weird religious fundamentalist stuff.

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        You don’t have to eat fast food AT ALL. You would be more healthy and you would avoid funding awful people.

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        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.

        We, like you, avoid what companies we can, CFA included, but this is often overlooked. The individual locations (franchises) are not equal to the anti-lgbtq+ corporate leaders and many of the ones here (Midwest) seem at the local level to better align with the community they serve.

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      I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head for a few years: Christian Chicken Offset Charity. It would be an app that would notify you “You appear to be patronizng a bigoted establishment, do you wish to make a $1 donation to Charity X to offset?”

      Could work for Hobby Lobby, In ‘n Out, etc, too.

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          I don’t disagree, but:

          • People are weak when it comes to comfort food
          • Having this would create dialog about the problem at hand
          • Propping up a successful charity like this might cause corporate to question its policy, whereas a boycott results in hard to measure fiscal impact.
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        This isn’t how reality works. Offset is basically babble. What actually happens is company A does something actually harmful like poison the environment, pave some wetlands, burn down the forest and plant corn and then your offset goes to pay people with masters degrees to THINK about what they might do about assholes ruining the world.

        On net assholes with masters degrees have houses in the burbs and the fucking damage is still done. If you want to offset harm you actually have to decrease harm not pretend to be offsetting it.

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      Slim Chicken’s is better (I swear to god if any of you ruin Slim Chickens for me 🗡️)

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      Fr it’s not even that good. People lost their shit about it so I tried it and I was super underwhelmed. So many better options out there.

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      $0.02: I can’t prove it, but I think it comes down to the line itself being a mode of advertisement. You wouldn’t want to eat somewhere unpopular, and a hyper efficient drive-through would give that appearance. To blunt the impact of a deliberately slower drive-through, they put people out front* to greet customers so they don’t feel ignored in line. This in itself is something other chains don’t do and, instead, have to crush the drive-through line fast, just to keep everyone’s blood pressure in check. It’s better “customer service”, but as OP illustrates, places your staff out in the elements.

      Meanwhile the food is bland and factory-assembly-line consistent, with toppings that range from bland to sweet and bland. Perfect for kids and adults that already have enough excitement in their lives. Are powdermilk biscuits on the menu yet?

      (* if this is a corporate-mandated thing, it’s freaking brilliant. A manager can’t realistically pull one of the greeters to handle a kitchen disaster in the moment, since they’re outside. So, service in this regard is hard for management to screw up.)

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      It’s cause.most people have no clue about that and ultimately don’t care. They aren’t engaged and aren’t seeking to be.

      It’s fast, clean and decent enough to Garner a lot of customers.

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      This is one of the reasons I don’t get food from them or in-N-out. It may be illogical, but they tend to get a plot in a shopping center and take over a huge portion of the parking lot, pushing out customers from other stores in the shopping center. I couldn’t even get into the driveway to go to the grocery store one time because they were mis-managing the queue and had to go across town to the other store.

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        There’s a whole ass freeway exit I purposefully avoid for the same reasons. It’s a nightmare getting on and off because of a fucking chicken restaurant.

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      This may be conjecture, but I think that the reason that they’re so busy is because people think that if they don’t eat there then they won’t get into heaven.

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      The food does taste good, and it’s reasonably healthy for fast food, additionally they pay and typically treat their employees well.

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      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.

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        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.

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          Nope. I don’t give a shit what their corporate overlords beliefs are. I still go get my chick-n-minis and hash browns like I do every other week because I like the way it tastes.They could be on the brink of bankruptcy from customers taking their dollars elsewhere and it won’t magically change what they believe.

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            Man this guy just out here advertising he sucks corporate boot because he can’t be fucked to give a damn about pesky externalities.

            I think we just found a “temporarily embarrassed capitalist.”

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              It’s not sucking corporate boot to just not care about corporate ethics. You summed it up right, he just doesn’t give a damn.

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            I’m sure you do happily drive your Tesla to the Chick-Fil-A after shopping at Hobby Lobby for Nestlé products. Safe in the knowledge that they all love you and have your best interests at heart.

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      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.

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        You’re assuming to get to a location you need a car, that’s still car-centric design. If your primary argument for drive-throughs relies on the fact that you needed a car to reach the location in the first place then you’re missing the problem.

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          The person’s point stands if they were on a bicycle. You can’t just leave a child in a bike carrier at the bike rack.

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            I mean their only point is really if the kids didn’t have their “winter clothes on”, which would be pretty unlikely on a bike, and I would think in a car, for the most part. I guess it depends where you’re going, but that still seems like it would be a good idea, just before you leave the house, generally. I don’t think walking into a restaurant, for maybe the minute from the parking space to the door, is going to be a more substantial amount of time, that you would have to have your “winter clothes” on for, compared to if you were entering any other building. I dunno, the tradeoff might be easier in terms of like, without winter clothes, it’s easier to get your kids to go potty or change them, but that’s kind of a moot point anyways, because most honda odysseys don’t have toilets in them, and restaurants do.

            Waiting in lines is going to be a problem regardless of whether or not you’re in a car. It might be easier in a car, since you have more direct control of your children, but if you’re walking, a stroller would be the best analogue for that, and you should probably have that anyways, if you’re taking your toddlers for a walk.

            It’s also not as though walkable restaurants can’t necessarily have outdoor ordering windows, hole-in-the-wall style, maybe helping to prevent the flu or what have you. If that’s a major concern, though, I think a mask would be a bigger help. Maybe not for kids, they’re kinda too gross for that. You could probably leave a kid inside of your little kid bike trailer, or kid’s seat on the back or whatever, while you walk up to the hole in the wall and order your food, since they’re in view the whole time, and that wouldn’t be very inconvenient. I would think the only problem would be if you were going inside. There are some cool options for bike trailer strollers, if you wanted to just detach your kids from your bike, and then just like, go straight inside, but that’s kind of a hassle, I haven’t seen a good one since they all have to be overbuilt bike trailers first, and strollers second. Someone might make a good amount of schmoney if they could really nail that concept.

            In any case, all their points are moot and bad and cars are bad and dumb.

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            Putting a child in and out of a bike carrier is a ton easier compared to a car seat. It’s not really an issue.

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        Shhhh we’re hating on cars now, it doesn’t matter that they’re a massive utility the improves the day to day life of millions upon millions of people. Also, we don’t do kids here. Something something capitalism.

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          Bring on the people movers and the monorails; I’m here for it, but I don’t want to get Covid again and as much as I despair of humanity, I have kids and so do millions of others so we should be working together to make a better world for current and future generations.

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          I respect your perspective but as a parent, trust me, life is really freaking hard as it is. Making it harder is unconscionable.

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            Not trying to downplay the right to your opinion but I feel like there has to be a better way to allow parents to enjoy options while also not making restaurants hostile to pedestrians

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              I absolutely agree with making more places pedestrian friendly, I just think a drive through makes too much sense to dismiss out of hand. Heck, I’m in favor of walk-up windows to better serve those of us who don’t want to go inside a restaurant even without kids.

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                I just don’t see how a pedestrian friendly place of business and a drive through can co-exist. Open to being proven wrong but as I see it, anywhere that incorporates a drive thru adds at least 3 areas where traffic intersects with customers in a dangerous manner: at the beginning, around the store and the unavoidable blind spot when leaving.

                Not trying to take away from your ability to enjoy these things I just don’t think they are a good solution to a public place, as with anything car centric.

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                  I don’t have images readily available, but there are little shopping centers surrounding parking lots where pedestrians go right from the sidewalks into the various restaurants/shops, if you can imagine a U shape for the shops and the parking lot and vehicular entrances inside the U. It just takes some planning and extra space, and you know, capitalism isn’t a huge fan of “wasted” space that isn’t generating revenue.

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            You may have noticed already that I disagree with your reasoning for using a drive-thru, but you are not wrong that they make life easier, and I’m not even saying that you shouldn’t use them. I’m just saying that kids can handle a brief bit of cold.

            As a person who became disabled a few years back, I wish many, many more places would have drive through or order and pick-up without having to get out of your car. It’s a valuable service. I just think it’s over utilized by people who don’t need it, which is bad for the environment and not great for how little exercise people already get (walking from the back of the parking lot is not the end of the world, people).

            The pandemic was kind of a lifesaver for a lot of us. Suddenly delivery options and order for pickup options have become available where we used to have to struggle to go into these places. It’s great. It’s not great for the environment or for most people’s health, but it’s great for those who really need it.

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        They don’t need to be super bundled up just going from the car to the restaurant and back.

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          Tell me you live somewhere temperate without telling me where you live. Have you been to much of the US in the winter?

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            I agree with you and I live in Florida. I’d rather deal with the drive thru for the same reasons you listed.

            Also, I won’t have to deal with trying to buckle a 2 & 4 year-old out of and back into their car seats, especially when it’s raining and 95*F. The 4 year old has ASD and refuses to be helped into the car so they throw a tantrum in the rain, and the 2 year old loses their mind just because.

            There are things that people who don’t have/want kids can’t understand, and it’s an argument not worth having.

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              You’ve lived in Alaska for multiple winters and you aren’t worried about the problem with exposing small children to extreme cold?

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                You should see how the Finnish treat their babies. Things like frostbite and frostnip don’t happen in the few seconds it takes to get from a car to a door. Yes, with small children, those 10 or 20 seconds might turn into 60, but they will be fine.

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                A low temperature in Alaska will affect you MUCH differently than low temperatures in say, BC which is much more humid and cuts into my bones at -1 where in Alaska/Yukon I’ve handled -34 and I’m mostly struggling to breath.

                As long as it’s a quick jaunt into a heated facility, it should be fine with some moderate layers.

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                  These days I live in Washington, not quite as cold as BC but mostly similar. Previously, I have lived in the Northeast of the US and the Northeast of Japan, which are both humid and quite cold and windy in the winter.

                  I know winter.

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              I’m happy for you? You’re very tough. I wouldn’t do that shit if you paid me ten million and I definitely wouldn’t make a ten year old do it.

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                People do it for living. Just wear warm clothes. Well, that warm clothes might be an overkill, just wear regular warm clothes. As I said it’s not even Yakutia.

                I definitely wouldn’t make a ten year old do it

                10 years olds, you know, need to go to school. And they do*. I did when I was 10. Everyone did.

                *unless it’s below -25 outside

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        Why do you need children to wait in line with you? Are you in Soviet Union during deficit where there was a limit how much one person can buy?

        Not sharing air

        Give me another globe!

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          Why do you need children to wait in line with you?

          Because letting toddlers run free around restaurants is asshole behavior.

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      It was more military focus than car focus. While in uniform the military isn’t/wasn’t supposed to run errands essentially, so they couldn’t get out of their cars. McDonald’s introduced the drive thru so that soldiers could grab a bite to eat without exiting their vehicles. Not that that is any better, just the reason that the first ones were even a thing.

      Everyone else installing the things is definitely car-centric.

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      I was going to a local place until they shut down out of nowhere that had basically the same thing as a drive thru, but for foot traffic (you could go inside, or you could go to the side of the building and order from a window at the sidewalk). I could imagine even in a fully walkable city that you can’t drive in would have “walk thrus.”

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        One of my favorite fast-food joints when I visited the states was Checkers. It was only walk-through and looked horrible to work in (Shed-sized building but one kitchen), but I liked the concept. It was easy to wander up, order food, chill, then maybe wander off somewhere else.

        Without any cars to access or even reliably park (??), it was relaxing. A small slice of walker’s paradise where all of the scenery catered to our eyes instead of condensed seating areas surrounded by idling cars.

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          Weird. Checkers is usually a tiny building which is entirely geared toward drive-through orders and is rather pedestrian unfriendly in colder weather because it is all outside ordering and dining if you don’t want to use the drive-through.

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            Even weirder, because where I am every checkers is in a gas station, with a drive through on the side of the building. If that isn’t as car-centric as it gets, just shoot me.

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            This is the part I don’t get. I watched Chick-Fil-A build a new restaurant. Required all kinds of crazy drainage engineering to get into the corner of a larger parking lot. But throw in a covered drive-through on top of that? Absolutely not. They did build a kiosk for the drive-through, but could have just as easily built a second drive-through window and called it a day.

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        There’s a small local burger chain by me which does this. They have a small hut for their restaurant, no inside seating. Drive-thru is on the right and walk-thru is on the left.

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    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.

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      I tried it a few times when it came to my area after hearing people rave for years, and I feel the same. It’s good, but that’s it. On par with KFC.

      Popeye’s is way better in my opinion. It’s also cheaper, and the staff tend to be pretty entertaining in an unintentional and chaotic way. It’s the only fast food restaurant where employees are consistently very honest. Like, if they don’t have red beans because somebody fucked them up, I have been told exactly that.

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        “You get what you get. NEXT!”

        Ngl the raw “you think I give a fuck about this job?” attitude their employees give off is super refreshing compared to the saccharine, focus tested to death, mandatory prompts that pass as conversation at Chic-Fila

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        I like the customer service and overall quality of the place, I’ve never seen a bad store. I’m not crazy about their chicken (Popeyes is better imo), it’s not the best but you’ll never roll the dice on whether you got what you ordered or if there is a problem. Also, from what I hear, they pay very competitively and take care of their employees (could be wrong).

        I haven’t deliberately eaten there in years (occasionally I’ll have it if it’s catered or if everyone else wants to go), because they have really terrible politics and support things I disagree with.

        Also, the place has a vibe I hate, like preppy kids mixed with a church function. It just feels fake, the smiles, the “my pleasure”, etc. it feels so fake it’s unsettling to me. I like Popeyes because while I have to check my order to make sure it’s ok, the person behind the counter is a normal person not a plastic cutout.

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        I’d put it on par with Wendy’s. Above KFC, but I still wouldn’t go out of my way for it. But I’ve also only had it at catered work functions when it wasn’t fresh, so I am a little biased. And fuck them, I don’t give bigot chicken my money, so I guess I’ll never know what it tastes like fresh.

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        At it’s best it’s fast food chicken. I’ll never understand the hubub.

        Its closed on sundays(which is fun because they get contracts to operate in airports and throughway rest stops), and the owners have that whole anti gay thing going on.

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      The nearest Chick-fil-A to me is always super busy with cars going around the block. I have never seen them take orders from the cars that are waiting in line like this.

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    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)??

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        And it works. The chikfila by my work I can get in and out of in 5-10 minutes regardless of how busy they are (barring the time when some chose blocks the drive thru exit and the manager has to come out and direct traffic to get the line moving). Compared to BK or McDonald’s who take 20+ minutes if there’s more than like 4 people in front of you. God help you if you try to go inside and theres an old person trying to order on the touch screen things.

        That being said I don’t go to child fil a when the weather is shitty because of the workers being out in it.

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    And people in us say somethig about weather when talking about pedestrian infrastructure.

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        Ugh I don’t understand why people wait in long drive thru lines… It is an exercise in stupidity, as well was waste.

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          Well you don’t expect them to park their car, get out of the car, walk across the parking lot, open the doors to get in, stand in line, place the order, pay for the order, wait for the order, then have to walk all the way back to the car (which would include opening more doors), just to have to get back into their car in order to eat. Seriously, who should have to suffer such indignity?!? ಠ_ಠ

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          I used to be a big fan of screw this I’m going inside, but it’s a mix now right? All the fast food restaurants have like one cashier now. Just because you go inside doesn’t guarantee that you push your order up in speed, you’re still waiting behind everybody else in line that’s ordered and now with so many places having two lines , you’re probably waiting behind half a dozen people even if you go inside and there’s no one there. You don’t even get the attention of the cashier right away because they’re busy helping fill drive-thru orders. If there are a bunch of people in line yet to order you could make some distance. But now you’ve got to try to park get in and get back out with the drive-thru line cutting right through the middle of the lot.

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            Also, the drive thru has a timer that the workers are scored on. Going inside doesn’t. They absolutely prioritize drive thru orders.

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    I don’t know what those are, but I love standing in the rain and I hate getting wet. So that just looks incredibly nice

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        I can’t remember when I last ate a wet diaper. Maybe I should seek a Popeye’s to find out about this new wonder of international cuisine.

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          You don’t know what you’re missing. But I prefer the small business wet diaper over the fast food wet diaper. You want your wet diaper wetted by someone who enjoys wetting diapers for the quality.

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      People like to compare them, but they have such a different flavor when you order them plain like I do. The Popeyes ones are pickle-brined, so they have a faint taste of pickles with every bite. I can’t stand the flavor personally.

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    The in-person order taking is a much worse experience for the customer. Let me look at the damn menu board. It should not take any more time to prepare a meal than it takes for a car to progress from the order board to the window. I don’t see how them getting the order earlier (presumably the purpose of this) is helping in any way.

    If you want chick fil a and value your time, the in store pickup is a much more efficient.

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      Huh? They have staged ordering and pickup. So the pickup is not a bottleneck.

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      In-store pickup, lol. The places by me are always so busy that there’s nowhere to park.

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    I used to work at chick-fil-a. Those things sucked. They were hot and smelled of body oder. It was hard to do anything in them.

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      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.

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          pickle juice is awesome. pickles, pickle backs, pickles on sandwiches, everything. I feel sorry for gp