Lindsay Graham says he'd go to war for Chik-Fil-A

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BlueWeasel

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We had a friend that lost his wife. His local Walmart paid for everything at the memorial.. your point? Chick o file does not treat it's employees any better than any other fast food establishment, a simple google search will prove that.

Do you know of any CFA employees? Do you know any franchise owners? Do you know what it does in my local community? Fuck off then. The fact that you compare it to Walmart, of all places, shows your ignorance.
 
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MrSquished

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Do you know of any CFA employees? Do you know any franchise owners? Do you know what it does in my local community? Fuck off then.

Hey if being a bigot is excused because you donated to a community garden, more power to you. CFA's starting salary for entry level workers is about 8% less than the national average per a google search. They are nothing special.
 
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Hey if being a bigot is excused because you donated to a community garden, more power to you. CFA's starting salary for entry level workers is about 8% less than the national average per a google search. They are nothing special.

lol whatever bullshit you're googling isn't at all reputable. Not to mention their added benefits that the majority of other fast food can't even touch.
 

MrSquished

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lol whatever bullshit you're googling isn't at all reputable. Not to mention their added benefits that the majority of other fast food can't even touch.

What are these great benefits for non-managerial regular employees you speak of?
 

BlueWeasel

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Hey if being a bigot is excused because you donated to a community garden, more power to you. CFA's starting salary for entry level workers is about 8% less than the national average per a google search. They are nothing special.

I never said they had the highest hourly rate in the industry, nor do I care. I don't consider hourly rates as the only metric to measure employee treatment. Against other fast food restaurants, there is no comparison.

I certainly don't agree with their agenda, but they do a lot locally that other chains don't. If eating their spicy chicken sandwich once a month makes me a hypocrite, so be it. My pleasure.
 

MrSquished

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I never said they had the highest hourly rate in the industry, nor do I care. I don't consider hourly rates as the only metric to measure employee treatment. Against other fast food restaurants, there is no comparison.

I certainly don't agree with their agenda, but they do a lot locally that other chains don't. If eating their spicy chicken sandwich once a month makes me a hypocrite, so be it.

I'm just asking how amazing they are. I did some searching, and it seems that in general the place is just an average fast food joint to work at, and really the only ones that stand our are only because that franchise owner is trying to be better. But on a corporate level, CFA is nothing special. It's really on independent owners that take it to the next level by paying more and doing more.
 

HomerJS

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"walking the walk" do you mean treating and rewarding their employees unlike any other fast food restaurant chain in existence?


EDIT: Also, hilarious to see in the whole LGBTBBQ movement that people are still looking to shove gay-stereotypes down people's throats as-if to say because Lindsey Graham is gay because "he meets these gay stereotypes that I proclaim gays are". Way to go stereotyping racist/sexist folks lol.
Who knew equal rights was "shoving things down people's throats"

That again you minority hating pea brains have always thought that way
 

Zorba

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I've never understood the fuss. Yeah a spicy chicken sandwich is good, as compared to the bottom tier of fast food places.

The only thing that stands out us all of they're locations are nice, but you can do that when you have very few locations and owners can only own one.
 

Vic

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I would too - it's the only fast food restaurant worth a shit

But srsly, I haven't eaten at a MCD, BK, Wendys, etc... in.... shit, 5+ years? As long as I can remember at minimal.

Chick-Fil-A is fucking awesome though. Spicy Chicken Sammich - or the Spicy Chicken Breakfast biscuit is awesome. Plus Nuggets + Waffle Fries.



Chick-Fil-A though is a classic case though of "I don't give a fuck what your politics are" because they continue to sell out the ass regardless of how butt-hurt libtards get of their religious aspects.

They also have some of the most genuine employees with the highest pay+benefits that exist in fast food. So... lol suck it?

Wow.. who could have possibly guessed you're a corporate bootlicker?

And of course Chick fil a cares about "what your politics are." That's why they pay so much in political donations and are constantly putting themselves in the political spotlight (like here).
 
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Vic

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And they refuse to hire "gays" and discriminate against "gay" employees?
Yes. The only places they don't discriminate against LGBT is where it is illegal for them to do so. Or where the virtue signaling SJWs you hate so much impact sales through boycotts.
 
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I've never understood the fuss. Yeah a spicy chicken sandwich is good, as compared to the bottom tier of fast food places.

The only thing that stands out us all of they're locations are nice, but you can do that when you have very few locations and owners can only own one.

Maybe I'm a liberal elitist, but the conservative love of fast food just never ceases to amaze me. Here in the bombed out wreck of Portland where I live, devastated as we are by years of antifa violence, there are like a dozen food carts where I can get a spicy chicken sandwich that makes chick fil a taste like McDonalds. For lunch today, I had grubhub deliver a spicy gyro on samoon bread from this halal market... so freakin good it'll make you cry.
While these idiots brag about which version of McDs they think is best, like that's cool. Whatever, hillbilly.
 
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MrSquished

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Maybe I'm a liberal elitist, but the conservative love of fast food just never ceases to amaze me. Here in the bombed out wreck of Portland where I live, devastated as we are by years of antifa violence, there are like a dozen food carts where I can get a spicy chicken sandwich that makes chick fil a taste like McDonalds. For lunch today, I had grubhub deliver a spicy gyro on samoon bread from this halal market... so freakin good it'll make you cry.
While these idiots brag about which version of McDs they think is best, like that's cool. Whatever, hillbilly.

Here among the burned out husks of buildings that used to be NYC, there are 11 CFA's total. That's a bit under one per million people. Portland has four total.

It helps when you have tons of actual real food options around.
 
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Do you know of any CFA employees? Do you know any franchise owners? Do you know what it does in my local community? Fuck off then. The fact that you compare it to Walmart, of all places, shows your ignorance.
I see you completely missed the point in an emotional "feels" response. You have yet to give any example that Walmart doesn't also do, as well as many other franchise owners, other chains, etc. Point is CFA is nothing special, other than you are blind to reality because of feels....
 
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lol whatever bullshit you're googling isn't at all reputable. Not to mention their added benefits that the majority of other fast food can't even touch.
Nothing is reputable unless it supports your bullshit. You are more than welcome to show your work that disputes the facts that are out there .. like these special benefits and such.
 
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To me the most interesting part of all of this is that a sitting US senator has nothing better to do than screech about fast food.

I think the last time I ate at one was about 10 years ago. It was fine. I would never think of it if it weren’t for the seemingly endless political controversies they get into.
 

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To me the most interesting part of all of this is that a sitting US senator has nothing better to do than screech about fast food.

I think the last time I ate at one was about 10 years ago. It was fine. I would never think of it if it weren’t for the seemingly endless political controversies they get into.

It's just all culture war all the time now with that party.

CFA's proudct has always struck me as distinctly average. No better or worse than most other fast food offering and certainly inferior to other chicken sandwiches you can get from local places. Austin has a lot of midwestern transplants who still love it and I'm like "Hello, you are in the south and there are at least a dozen better places you could go instead".
 
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Meghan54

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It's just all culture war all the time now with that party.

CFA's proudct has always struck me as distinctly average. No better or worse than most other fast food offering and certainly inferior to other chicken sandwiches you can get from local places. Austin has a lot of midwestern transplants who still love it and I'm like "Hello, you are in the south and there are at least a dozen better places you could go instead".

Probably true for most Southern towns/cities. Numbers of vastly superior chicken/bbq joints all around. Sadly for a large number of melanin-challenged residents, those places are run by “them” and would requiredriving into “that part of town.”

This is still a prevalent attitude in the south, esp in smaller ruralish areas…like anywhere outside a distinct city center.

Sad but true.