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I'm probably the only person in the South that's never eaten there.
We don't have Chick-fil-A here and I think the closest ones are in Gallatin Tennessee and Bowling Green Kentucky, both being about 35 miles from here.
They do send a Chick-fil-A food truck up here a couple times a month to set up shop in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot for a few hours and when they do, there's always a crowd of 30-40 people surrounding it waiting to order.
You'd think with that kind of enthusiasm, they'd open up a franchise here.
I've never been to one. No desire too.
ReplyDeleteIn my less than humble opinion you ain't missing much. Popeye's is better.
ReplyDeleteOh Heaven's know. Popeye's has got to be the worse Fast food chicken I've ever had. And I've tried a lot. Popeye's needs to go the way of the DoDo bird.
DeleteI won't be stopping at a Popeye's again either.
DeleteBojangles is best
DeleteAny fast food chicken is sub-par. Come to think of it, any fast food is sub-par.
DeleteIf there are not enough gays to not hire you may have a long time to wait for a franchise.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the fun in opening a Chick-fil-A if you don't have a woke crowd to do the advertising for you?
As in reverse psychology because the wokes are boycotting and having a fit, right?
DeleteWay back before it became controversial, we went there once, and then didn't return because of what became known at our house as 'The Gristle Incident.' But then when people started demanding that nobody should patronize them, the old orneriness demanded I go back and try it again, and low and behold, I liked it and have been back often.
I think BG is much further than 35 miles from Lafayette.
ReplyDeleteI'd say there isn't enough population in Macon County to justify a full up Chik-Fil-A.
Bowling Green is 36 miles from my house as the crow flies, 40 by road.
DeleteWe've get several fast food places here and they do a booming business, even the DQ that opened just a few months ago.
I enjoy their spicy sammiches. The closest franchise is in an adjoining county and it has always been swamped with customers since it opened years ago. I like to think every time I eat there I piss off a liberal.
ReplyDeleteI've found very few restaurants that make chicken that I think is worth it. But Chick-Fil-A is the exception. their spicy hot sandwich is to die for. And not only do they make a good chicken, but they piss off the liberals to no end. So it's a twofer. Good chicken, pissed of leftards. How can that be bad?
ReplyDeleteI stop by and purchase a sandwich every once in a while, when there's no line, just to support a franchise with some of the same principals I have....
ReplyDeleteOur local Chik-fil-A is tasty and has a great staff. If you eat a lot of fast food there is a very high profanity you have eaten more than saliva.
ReplyDeleteThree Chick-Fil-A shops within 10-minutes of our place. One closest pretty much always has a line. Ages ago, I tried their food. Once! Even checked out their online menu and found NO JOY. Their product is just waaay too expensive, too salty and appears to be assembled from chicken pieces compacted together. Sorry but I like my fried chicken with a bone - doubles in use as a handle when eating a chicken leg. "Chick" isn't serious fried chicken - it's high priced Greasy Mc snack food. I'll spend my fried chicken nickel at Popeyes or even Walmart. Not keen on chicken sandwiches but when inclined, I'll go to Arby's or my local Italian deli for a chicken Parma sub or dlx chicken burger.
ReplyDeleteAnd doubling up on Arby's; they've come a long way since their "just dried roast beef" days. Their sandwich offerings are now consistently good and varied - fries need help though.
I'm surprised by the comments here. It's obvious there are no Southerners. Please keep your Yankee crap and anything west of the Mississippi to yourselves. I'd gladly bring Chick-fil-A back to the Garden if Eden (Georgia) only.
ReplyDeleteLook at the bright side. At least he didn't put Pud butter on the fries.
ReplyDeleteMy wife likes the place & the spicy deluxe is good, not a fan of their fries.
ReplyDeleteThere's Chick Fil A restaurant about 1/10th of a mile from me. I've had their offering twice, the first time with a 20% off introductory coupon when it first opened 6-7 years ago. After the second time, when I got their exorbitantly priced less than a playing card sized piece mystery meat in their sandwich, I haven't been back.
ReplyDeleteThe place does big business on the weekends with lines of cars for the drive through a hundred or more yards long every weekend, so they must be doing something right or the clientele doesn't know value.
Nemo
I tried the place once. Unimpressed with the food. Appalled with the lines.
ReplyDeleteThey're overwhelmed in our end of town. They shut down to expand the kitchen to keep up. Still, Lunch and Supper, they have three lanes taking orders, workers carrying the orders from the pick up windows to the cars in lines and still the line blocks the entrance between them and Cracker Barrel and backs up in both directions on the feeder road in the shopping center...
ReplyDeleteThere is a crap ton of them here in Dallas. Every one of them has at a minimum a drive through line that encircles the building. You don't park inside that circle because you won't get out when you leave. Wait time in the drive through is about 10 minutes. They are pretty efficient.
ReplyDeleteyou have a piggly wiggly??? i thought they all shut down about the same time winn dixey and safeway went away. maybe they all just went to smaller markets so they didn't have to compete with the big box rip offs that infest big cities.
ReplyDeletePiggly Wigglys are thicker than fleas around here. And Safeway didn't go away - I retired from their NorCal warehouse 6.5 years ago and am still in contact with friends that work there. They might've shut down in your area, but they're still going strong, especially in the western US.
DeleteThere is a Piggly Wiggly about a mile from my house and also a Winn Dixie about three miles from my house.
DeleteWinn Dixie is alive and well in FL.
DeleteI think there's still a Piggly wiggly in Mountain City or Dillard GA, above Clayton.
DeleteAnd I remember Safeway as a kid growing up in SoCal.
I like Chick Fila, lines are too long. I head to KFC, they have a great chicken sandwich too.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
There stuff makes me poop within 20 minutes of eating there. Not sure why, but I suspect oils used in cooking. So not my first choice. But I would eat there if I was in the mood. Food was always acceptable for the most part
ReplyDeleteNo Chick-fil-A in Rapid City SoDak. Strange. Nearest ones are 2 down in Cheyenne. Pennington County is second most populous in SD so I wonder what their “corporate calculus” is. Perhaps a logistics problem. We don’t have Costco yet either. AF’s new B-21 will be based here first, for ops & training, so I suspect Chick-fil-A will be coming. They do have great chicken.
ReplyDeleteI tried Chick-Fil-A once. It was the nastiest thing I've ever tried to eat. In the time it took to get from the counter to the table it had steamed itself into a sodden mass in its foil bag. I tossed it after the first bite.
ReplyDeleteIt's breaded fried chicken on bread. With mayonnaise.
ReplyDeleteTried it once. Didn't finish it.
Chick-Fil-A is okay. I still prefer a well made Whopper. I indulge in any fast food maybe twice a year.
ReplyDeleteThere is a LOT to be said for a well made Whopper!
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