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I'll never understand the literal lines around the block for fucking Bigot-Chicken.
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.
But is it "wait a fucking half hour or more in a god damned drive through" good? Fuck no it isn't.
The streamlined menu makes it so the line goes pretty fast.
Even when it's around the building it'll only take 10 min.
Evidently some people value their time less or the chicken more.
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.
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
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.
It’s not that good anymore. IMO Wendy’s chicken is better nowadays
Popeyes spicy chicken is so much better than either.
Is the chicken even that good?, no way they don't come from a CAFO. Stressed out chicken meat taste like water to me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don't have to eat fast food AT ALL. You would be more healthy and you would avoid funding awful people.
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.
It would be so much easier to just not shop at those places.
But if you didn't know about it in advance, that system would be useful
I don’t disagree, but:
Slim Chicken’s is better (I swear to god if any of you ruin Slim Chickens for me 🗡️)
The name doesn't work if you eat a lot of their food. Does that count as ruining it for you?
In America, where chic and slims are? I wouldn't bet on it ruining anything for them.
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.
$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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.