Chick Fil-A specifically. Would you like to see New York progs head's explode? It's not so fun as it sounds. Chick Fil-A opens in New York and offers the first 100 customers sandwiches for life and that is a very compelling pull. Darren Rovell Twitter post with photo of line 3-4 deep wrapping around the block in both directions from a corner shop, and all with umbrellas opened, raining with hurricane warning. The sophisticates simply cannot believe it.
The link is for the photo and comments.
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Minus the rain, that sounds like the Chick-fil-a's around here roughly every day but Sunday.
risking their very lives for free food! oh the humanity! Don't they know it's a hurricane! Don't they understand that the CEO has an opinion that isn't PC? Mind-crime! They are all gonna die!!
(I'm kidding) Hot food for free? in NYC? Go for it.
The gay controversy has to have been a huge win for them. I never tried one until that happened and I felt compelled to fight the boycott. I'm a regular customer now that probably never would have been otherwise.
Chip is funny - a mixture between a nerdy, reclusive hermit and a crusty fuddy duddy. Anyway, there never was much of an issue of its business being affected, they always did make tasty, and probably well-sourced chicken, and are therefore probably provided a net benefit for the more important "movement" to improve the food supply (a so-called "progressive" cause) as Burglar Queen and McStankald's goes to antibiotic-free beef, etc. On top of that, it prompted competitive DIY efforts to develop a great homemade Chick-Fil-A alternative.
NYC is huge so one new business with a busy line doesn't mean much comparatively for the company. Was it in Harlem? And no one cares about a business not wanting to operate on Sunday (although a conservative might, since that could benefit the employees which as everyone knows is a breach in the laws of capitalism), or the outdated opinion of its now-dead 93-year old Southern founder.
Not a big chicken sammie fan.
I think their cow adverts are asinine.
Their anti-cow advertisements are, indeed, ridiculous.
But every campaign has to have its gimmick. I suppose if they're unusual enough to be memorable that's entirely the point. As bag said about the gay controversy.
I remember my dad used to call the abomination known as "McNuggets" "Beaks and claws".
This was way back in the 1980s before anyone knew about ammonium-bleached pink paste.
But of course, even then you could tell that they obsessed over flavor and couldn't even manage to put something in those things that vaguely resembled chicken meat.
The Truetts have perfected both the flavor and consistent texture of a well-done spicy, breaded chicken filet. Without compromising any nice service. cleanliness of their establishments and wholesome attitude.
If nothing else, you have to respect a mass-produced chain operation pulling off all that. But as they continue to grow, who knows if they can maintain it?
I'm like you bags never knew how good they were till the Boycott. There were none in my Area when the Boycott started, now there are 3 and they're always busy.
We have one that sits in the same parking lot next door to a Burger King. If BK gets 1 customer per CFA 10's, it's a good day for BK.
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