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    Chick-fil-A

    Two years ago Chick-fil-A made national headlines when company president Dan Cathy spoke out in support of traditional marriage. Liberals and gays came unglued and launched massive protests against the restaurant chain. Several mayors spoke out saying they would not allow any more Chick-fil-As to be built in their cities.

    They tried boycotting the Christian owned company, but that backfired. Instead, Chick-fil-A had a world record day with many locations selling out of food to the hundreds of thousands of supporters. Is it any surprise that the only news the liberal mainstream media has reported concerning Chick-fil-A has only been the negative?

    Remember last week when the ice storm hit the south? The mainstream media showed footage of miles of cars stranded on the frozen interstates. Several national news broadcasts I saw reported about school kids trapped on busses for almost 24 hours because of all of the ice and parents going frantic wondering where their kids were.

    In all of the icy gloom and doom, I bet you didn’t hear about the heroic and generous actions of a Chick-fil-A along Highway 280 in Birmingham, Alabama, did you?

    Mark Meadows, owner of the Chick-fil-A closed early the day of the storm and sent all of his employees home. However, the employees and Meadows soon discovered that they were not going to be able to get home with all of the stranded motorists stuck on the roads. Some of the cars near the restaurant had been stranded for up to 7 hours.

    Meadows and his employees fired up the kitchen and began preparing chicken sandwiches as fast as they could. They prepared several hundred sandwiches and then Meadows and his staff headed out and began distributing the hot meals to the stranded motorists on both sides of Highway 280.

    Some of the drivers tried to pay them for the sandwiches, but Meadows and his employees refused to take a single penny. Audrey Pitt, manager of the Chick-fil-A, explained why: “This company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you’re worried about money or profit. We were just trying to follow the model that we’ve all worked under for so long and the model that we’ve come to love. There was really nothing else we could have done but try to help people any way we could.”

    However, Meadows and Pitt were not through with their Good Samaritan efforts They helped push cars off the roads, up inclines and whatever else they could do to help. Then they kept the restaurant open overnight so that stranded motorists could have a warm place to be. A number of motorists slept in booths or on the benches.

    Then in the morning, they again fired up the kitchen and prepared chicken biscuits for their overnight guests and once again they refused to accept any payment. During that 24 hour period, this Chick-fil-A restaurant opened their kitchen, their doors and their hearts to hundreds of stranded motorists and they did so refusing to accept any payment. As one source put it, Meadows and his staff lived up to the words Jesus spoke in Matthew 25:35 which states:

    “For I was hungry, and you fed me; I was thirsty, and you gave me water; I was a stranger, and you invited me in…”

    Their actions were truly generous and heroic as they also braved the frigid temperatures to hand out hundreds of hot meals to complete strangers. And I bet you never heard anything about this from the mainstream media. Their liberal bias and intolerance would never allow them to report on a Christian company doing something so positive for so many.

    We need to support this and other Christian companies that are trying to spread the Good News of the Gospel through their daily work.

    Pass this along and bypass the media!



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    Outstanding! Chick-fil-a has always been an great company. Quality and consistency at every store I have visited.

    Thread could use a link though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    Outstanding! Chick-fil-a has always been an great company. Quality and consistency at every store I have visited.

    Thread could use a link though.
    Sorry no link, E-mail from a friend....

  5. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    Sorry no link, E-mail from a friend....
    From 2014.

    Chick-fil-A gives free food to motorists stranded in Southern snowstorm


    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chic...hern-snowstorm

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    I didn't hear about this back in 2014. Good for them! We don't have them in our neck of the woods, but if I am traveling and see one, they will get my business.
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    The thing that always surprises me is that no matter which one I go to, you know what I see that separates them from the other fast food places?
    The employees have dignity.
    You can see it on their faces and in their work. Somehow Chik-Fil-A has transformed a job which, for every other fast food restaurant, is a soul-crushing exercize in despair for both the employee and everyone interacting with him, into a position with dignity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    I didn't hear about this back in 2014. Good for them! We don't have them in our neck of the woods, but if I am traveling and see one, they will get my business.
    Two in Nashua...that's it.

    https://www.chick-fil-a.com/Locations/Browse/NH

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    Quote Originally Posted by fisharmor View Post
    The thing that always surprises me is that no matter which one I go to, you know what I see that separates them from the other fast food places?
    The employees have dignity.
    You can see it on their faces and in their work. Somehow Chik-Fil-A has transformed a job which, for every other fast food restaurant, is a soul-crushing exercize in despair for both the employee and everyone interacting with him, into a position with dignity.
    Which means that any large corporate employer, from Amazon to Zillow, can do the same.



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    Quote Originally Posted by fisharmor View Post
    The thing that always surprises me is that no matter which one I go to, you know what I see that separates them from the other fast food places?
    The employees have dignity.
    You can see it on their faces and in their work. Somehow Chik-Fil-A has transformed a job which, for every other fast food restaurant, is a soul-crushing exercize in despair for both the employee and everyone interacting with him, into a position with dignity.
    I agree. I have one close to my job so I eat lunch there regularly. The employees always have a smile on their face and are working hard. Fresh flowers on the table and the best fast food available, hands down. Compare that to a Jack-n-the-Crack or a Burger King. Even Mickey-D's doesn't compare.

    If I were ever to consider getting into the franchise business, Chick-fil-A would be my first choice for sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jamesiv1 View Post
    Compare that to a Jack-n-the-Crack or a Burger King.
    By the way, Burger King inexplicably went full retard in favor of Net Neutrality earlier in 2018. Broke my heart because I really like their burgers (among the lot of bad burgers, that is) and now I can't eat there ever again.

    There are no crimes against people.
    There are only crimes against the state.
    And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.

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    I worked at the first freestanding Chick Fil a and it was a pretty big deal here in GA. We had them in malls and The Dwarf House was just south of Atlanta in Hapeville so having one easily accessible was very exciting. Because it was a test run store, Truett Cathy was in there a lot. I see y'all talking about how the employees behave, well that comes from the top. Mr Cathy was always smiling and believed strongly in how your attitude effected everything in your life. He seemed to have a knack for hiring managers who were firm but also kind and they took a real interest in our lives. The year I worked there I felt like I was part of an extended family. BTW, if you're ever in Atlanta stop at The Dwarf House and get the hot browns. When my granny was in the hospital dying, she sent me up there to bring her some. They're that good. Plus, they have a little midget door in the front. I have family buried at Sherwood Forrest cemetery right up the road so we would go there when I was a kid and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

    BTW, it wasn't an easy fast food job, either. It was the only fast food restaurant I know of that had a full scratch kitchen. We even had to cut all the lemons to make lemonade (and the lemon pies) and that place sells a lot of friggin lemonade. I got my first work related injury cutting lemons at CFA. I was showing off for a boy and I was throwing the lemons in the air whacking them in half in mid air like a Ninja. I ended up accidentally hitting my finger. It was very embarrassing because it was right out front where customers could see and there was blood everywhere. I ended up getting 5 stitches and was barred from the lemon table. To add insult to injury, the boy I was showing off for never even asked me out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Paul View Post
    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    I worked at the first freestanding Chick Fil a and it was a pretty big deal here in GA. We had them in malls and The Dwarf House was just south of Atlanta in Hapeville so having one easily accessible was very exciting. Because it was a test run store, Truett Cathy was in there a lot. I see y'all talking about how the employees behave, well that comes from the top. Mr Cathy was always smiling and believed strongly in how your attitude effected everything in your life. He seemed to have a knack for hiring managers who were firm but also kind and they took a real interest in our lives. The year I worked there I felt like I was part of an extended family. BTW, if you're ever in Atlanta stop at The Dwarf House and get the hot browns. When my granny was in the hospital dying, she sent me up there to bring her some. They're that good. Plus, they have a little midget door in the front. I have family buried at Sherwood Forrest cemetery right up the road so we would go there when I was a kid and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

    BTW, it wasn't an easy fast food job, either. It was the only fast food restaurant I know of that had a full scratch kitchen. We even had to cut all the lemons to make lemonade (and the lemon pies) and that place sells a lot of friggin lemonade. I got my first work related injury cutting lemons at CFA. I was showing off for a boy and I was throwing the lemons in the air whacking them in half in mid air like a Ninja. I ended up accidentally hitting my finger. It was very embarrassing because it was right out front where customers could see and there was blood everywhere. I ended up getting 5 stitches and was barred from the lemon table. To add insult to injury, the boy I was showing off for never even asked me out.
    Careless female with a knife...I can't imagine why he passed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Careless female with a knife...I can't imagine why he passed.
    I always thought he was just shy but maybe that was it. I know he thought I was funny. He worked Friday nights (I was off on Fri nights because I worked Sat Am) and I walked through the drive thru to talk to him over the speaker once and he laughed at me. I got in trouble for that, too. Apparently, we weren't suppose to "play" in the drive thru.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Paul View Post
    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    This intellectually stimulating conversation is the reason I keep coming here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jamesiv1 View Post
    I agree. I have one close to my job so I eat lunch there regularly. The employees always have a smile on their face and are working hard. Fresh flowers on the table and the best fast food available, hands down. Compare that to a Jack-n-the-Crack or a Burger King. Even Mickey-D's doesn't compare.

    If I were ever to consider getting into the franchise business, Chick-fil-A would be my first choice for sure.
    You're only allowed two stores. Chick-fil-A requires that owners spend 20 hrs. per week in the store. So, two stores makes for a 40 hr. week.

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    FYI, if you're hosting a charity event, CFA will donate chicken biscuits and free sammich coupons to give out. Just go to your local CFA a few months before the event so they can get you on the schedule.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Paul View Post
    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    This intellectually stimulating conversation is the reason I keep coming here.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Hmm...Nashua eh? I wonder if the people there are as personable as the rest? That would be interesting to find out. I guess I will have to pay them a visit sometime.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    I always thought he was just shy but maybe that was it. I know he thought I was funny. He worked Friday nights (I was off on Fri nights because I worked Sat Am) and I walked through the drive thru to talk to him over the speaker once and he laughed at me. I got in trouble for that, too. Apparently, we weren't suppose to "play" in the drive thru.
    I think he decided you were in the wrong area of the hot/crazy chart.
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    I've never had Chick-fil-a before. Is it any good?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    I worked at the first freestanding Chick Fil a and it was a pretty big deal here in GA. We had them in malls and The Dwarf House was just south of Atlanta in Hapeville so having one easily accessible was very exciting. Because it was a test run store, Truett Cathy was in there a lot. I see y'all talking about how the employees behave, well that comes from the top. Mr Cathy was always smiling and believed strongly in how your attitude effected everything in your life. He seemed to have a knack for hiring managers who were firm but also kind and they took a real interest in our lives. The year I worked there I felt like I was part of an extended family. BTW, if you're ever in Atlanta stop at The Dwarf House and get the hot browns. When my granny was in the hospital dying, she sent me up there to bring her some. They're that good. Plus, they have a little midget door in the front. I have family buried at Sherwood Forrest cemetery right up the road so we would go there when I was a kid and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

    BTW, it wasn't an easy fast food job, either. It was the only fast food restaurant I know of that had a full scratch kitchen. We even had to cut all the lemons to make lemonade (and the lemon pies) and that place sells a lot of friggin lemonade. I got my first work related injury cutting lemons at CFA. I was showing off for a boy and I was throwing the lemons in the air whacking them in half in mid air like a Ninja. I ended up accidentally hitting my finger. It was very embarrassing because it was right out front where customers could see and there was blood everywhere. I ended up getting 5 stitches and was barred from the lemon table. To add insult to injury, the boy I was showing off for never even asked me out.
    I would have taken you out if you had cut yourself for me showing off .
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    Concerning the OP , Southerners should not be on the highway in snow storms . They should be at home waiting for the power to go out to have a milk sandwich .
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    I would have taken you out if you had cut yourself for me showing off .
    I too have a higher tolerance for the crazy end of the hot/crazy chart.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    I too have a higher tolerance for the crazy end of the hot/crazy chart.
    You want to start playing that game?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    You want to start playing that game?

    How many medications was your last ex-girlfriend on?
    I was just poking at suz.
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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  30. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    You want to start playing that game?

    How many medications was your last ex-girlfriend on?
    Medications?

    That's the pansy way.

    Ex Mrs AF was untreated.
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