"LGBTQ Activists Shut Down Britain’s Only Chick-fil-A Just 9 Days After Opening"

[9-10ths_Penguin]

This Iowan Chick-fil-A franchisee actually ended up donating 200 Chicken sandwiches to attendees of a gay pride parade, which is greater in value than the portion of franchise fees he paid to Chick-fil-A that actually ended up funding anti-LGBTQ rights organizations. .

You know what would have been even more supportive of LGBTQ rights? Donating chicken sandwiches without funding anti-LGBTQ causes at all.

Chick-fil-A receives ca. $30 million of franchisee fee revenue annually. Chick-fil-A reportedly gave $1.8 million amounting to ca. 6 percent of its franchisee revenue to anti-gay rights organizations in 2017. Six percent of an individual restaurant franchisee fee amounts to $600. In 2017, the retail value of 200 Chick-fil-A sandwiches was ca. $1,000. Hence, this particular Chick-fil-A franchisee gave ca. $400 more to gay rights activists than the proportional amount of his franchisee fee that Chick-fil-A's corporate owner purportedly would have used towards the funding of anti-gay rights organizations.

Franchise fees are only one way that a restaurant chain gets revenue from franchisees. The individual franchisees also buy all of their food and most of their supplies from the main corporation, which takes a profit margin on every sale.

The main corporation will also often provide financing for franchisees; another way the main corporation generates profit.

 

[Salvador]

Did anyone actually eat them?

I'd have done some performance art involving a lot of ketchup and condoms. But I'm not Iowan.
Tom

Imo, Chick-fil-A sandwiches taste delicious. It'd be a shame for Chick-fil-A sandwich lovers like me if any Chick-fil-A restaurants around us were to get boycotted out of business.

 

[Twilight Hue]

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"Chick-fil-A is notorious for its owners’ donations to anti-LGBTQ organizations to the point where new locations often inspire protests in the United States. So when the chain opened its first branch in the UK earlier this month, it quite understandably drew ire from human rights groups.

Shockingly, their voices were heard.

The company has now shut down its location in The Oracle (a shopping center) in the city of Reading a mere nine days after opening.

The Oracle said: “We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further.”

This isn’t some anti-Christian move. It’s anti-hate. The chain has donated well over a million dollars, through its Chick-fil-A Foundation, to groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home, and The Salvation Army. All three groups are known for their anti-LGBTQ policies. Dan Cathy, the company’s CEO, famously said in 2012 that he was a supporter of “traditional marriage.”

Cathy has since backtracked by saying he “regrets making the company a symbol in the marriage debate,” but the company itself still gives money to Christian groups with anti-LGBTQ agendas (even if that’s not the focus of those groups). There are plenty of companies with admirable goals that don’t support bigotry; the people running Chick-fil-A made a decision to give money to certain Christian groups instead.

They have a right to do that. But companies and customers also have the right not to do business with them. What doesn’t make sense is why The Oracle even allowed Chick-fil-A to open up there at all. It’s not like their anti-LGBTQ views were secret. Even with the six-month grace period, both companies will be able to profit from religious extremism.

Reading Pride is taking a more charitable stance, noting that The Oracle’s decision was “good news” because it gives employees time to find other jobs. But that doesn’t mean other people are letting this location fade away without repercussion. In fact, plans are in the works for daily protests against the outlet until it closes.
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What's going to replace it , maybe a tofu shop or Starbucks?

 

[columbus]

Imo, Chick-fil-A sandwiches taste delicious. It'd be a shame for Chick-fil-A sandwich lovers like me if any Chick-fil-A restaurants around me were to get boycotted out of business.

Subway is my favorite fast food, although I don't eat out much.
Back when Subway's big wig was found to be doing immoral things, watching kiddie porno, I stopped and considered whether I wanted to patronize.
Subway fired his skanky butt and generally got rid of him. So I could separate buying their products from patronizing things I find despicable.
Chick-fil-A won't do that. They are proud of their despicable behavior, as Christians often are in my experience.
Tom

 

[SomeRandom]

I wouldn't either...but not because the owners are exercising their freedom of religion. I don't like the food. I shop at Hobby Lobby, too.

I ALSO shop at all the stores that have caved to pressure and put rainbow flags all over their store (no matter how silly the color scheme is to their decor) and put signs up outside telling passers by that everybody is welcome in their store....except white conservatives. I mean, really, yeah, I'm 'white,' but most of those stores have products that have nothing to do with politics. I can't really blame 'em for caving in to the fanatic "McCarthyism" going on.

However, if I happen to be wearing a t-shirt they object to, I'll raise a ruckus if they give me a hard time. (and you never know WHAT they'll object to...)

Come to think of it, I don't own any 'message' t-shirts. Except one I wear at Christmas that says 'Yeah...like you can find three wise men."

I guess I'll have to go online and look for some.

I quite like rainbows, myself.

 

[Shiranui117]

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"Chick-fil-A is notorious for its owners’ donations to anti-LGBTQ organizations to the point where new locations often inspire protests in the United States. So when the chain opened its first branch in the UK earlier this month, it quite understandably drew ire from human rights groups.

Shockingly, their voices were heard.

The company has now shut down its location in The Oracle (a shopping center) in the city of Reading a mere nine days after opening.

The Oracle said: “We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further.”

This isn’t some anti-Christian move. It’s anti-hate. The chain has donated well over a million dollars, through its Chick-fil-A Foundation, to groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home, and The Salvation Army. All three groups are known for their anti-LGBTQ policies. Dan Cathy, the company’s CEO, famously said in 2012 that he was a supporter of “traditional marriage.”

Cathy has since backtracked by saying he “regrets making the company a symbol in the marriage debate,” but the company itself still gives money to Christian groups with anti-LGBTQ agendas (even if that’s not the focus of those groups). There are plenty of companies with admirable goals that don’t support bigotry; the people running Chick-fil-A made a decision to give money to certain Christian groups instead.

They have a right to do that. But companies and customers also have the right not to do business with them. What doesn’t make sense is why The Oracle even allowed Chick-fil-A to open up there at all. It’s not like their anti-LGBTQ views were secret. Even with the six-month grace period, both companies will be able to profit from religious extremism.

Reading Pride is taking a more charitable stance, noting that The Oracle’s decision was “good news” because it gives employees time to find other jobs. But that doesn’t mean other people are letting this location fade away without repercussion. In fact, plans are in the works for daily protests against the outlet until it closes.
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I just went to Chick-Fil-A today. Cars were lined up around the block to get some food. I happily enjoyed my chicken sandwich, chicken nuggets and waffle fries with buffalo sauce.

Most people (at least in the US) don't care this much about politics, and almost everybody has been over and done with the outrage culture for years now. They just want to get some actually halfway decent fast food and to be able to eat in peace. They don't like campus preachers, and they don't like all of this outrage activism either for the same reasons.

 

[Flame]

What's going to replace it , maybe a tofu shop or Starbucks?

A better chicken place probably. Chick Fil A is pretty terrible compared to others.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Most people (at least in the US) don't care this much about politics, and almost everybody has been over and done with the outrage culture for years now. They just want to get some actually halfway decent fast food and to be able to eat in peace. They don't like campus preachers, and they don't like all of this outrage activism either for the same reasons.

Yup. Ignore human rights as long as you can get a cheap chicken sandwich.

 

[columbus]

I just went to Chick-Fil-A today. Cars were lined up around the block to get some food. I happily enjoyed my chicken sandwich, chicken nuggets and waffle fries with buffalo sauce.

Most people (at least in the US) don't care this much about politics, and almost everybody has been over and done with the outrage culture for years now. They just want to get some actually halfway decent fast food and to be able to eat in peace. They don't like campus preachers, and they don't like all of this outrage activism either for the same reasons.

I'm guessing that "No N!gg€rs, J€ws, or !r!sh" signs were good for business as well.
At one time.
Tom

 

[Watchmen]

When there are that many possibilities, all of whom I dislike, yeah.
It's hard to remember which Christian said the ugliest thing to me, over my 60+ years.
Tom

I’m not even a Christian. Pathetic.

 

[Watchmen]

There are some things that it's good to be intolerant of.

Anyone who thinks differently than the left is to be obliterated off the face of the earth, right?

 

[columbus]

Anyone who thinks differently than the left is to be obliterated off the face of the earth, right?

Is that really your conclusion from this?
Tom

 

[Watchmen]

Is that really your conclusion from this?
Tom

It’s my conclusion based on observing the ever growing extremist liberal front.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

A Chick-fil-A opened in Toronto, not too long ago, and in an area that has a fairly high population of LGBTetc. It's flourishing, and if that's the case, I suspect that it is delivering what its customers want. Personally, I'm not interested, and haven't bothered to check it out -- but I don't want it closed. Putting a bunch of people out of work, robbing those who took the risk to start it up of their investment -- those are not things I want.

I will never buy a beer from Coors, for similar reasons, but don't wish to see Coors shut down.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Meh, I've eaten there. Found it overpriced and overrated. I mean, it's good but they don't give you much and it's not amazing. For that alone, I wouldn't eat there again.

 

[Father Heathen]

Once again the “progressives” show off their intolerance.

So it's "intolerant" to not give your money to businesses that fund efforts to limit or restrict the rights of others?

 

[Nanoha]

Yup. Ignore human rights as long as you can get a cheap chicken sandwich.

Same-sex marriage is literally not a human right. Article 16 of the UDHR grants "men and women" the right to marry and found a family. Even so, in many jurisdictions, marriage in general is not an explicit constitutional/legal right. In any case, conceptualizations of "human rights" come and go; they are fundamentally political and are based on culture. Pretending as if what just so happens to be our modern, Western conception of rights constitutes inviolable natural law is just silly.

 

[Father Heathen]

What's going to replace it , maybe a tofu shop or Starbucks?

Because nobody else sells chicken sandwiches.

 

[Father Heathen]

Anyone who thinks differently than the left is to be obliterated off the face of the earth, right?

Such melodramatic hyperbole. You surely wouldn't give your money to businesses that support things you consider to be immoral or unethical, would you? What's the difference?

 

[Salvador]

So it's "intolerant" to not give your money to businesses that fund efforts to limit or restrict the rights of others?

I certainly don't consider myself as being intolerant for having kept my money away from businesses or organizations who support the government infringing upon people's Constitutional 2nd Amendment Right to be well-armed. Both sides of the political spectrum can play the boycott game.