this is just like bloons td
A dart monkey would do a number on those tires
Spam a bunch of tack shooters and watch the shrapnel fly!
lmao, yes
But why?
It would take longer to drive there sit in that line and then drive home than it would take to just make chicken for yourself. Add some pickle juice to your chicken seasoning and it’ll taste just like Chick-fil-A. Then you could have delicious chicken at home without all of the Christian hate, er, love.
I was reading the chic fil a guys biography in a thrift store other day. It opens with how he was going to give a guy a free car, but recorded the "you get a car" message at the end of 3 consecutive cassette tapes of Christian preacher sermons. Presumably, that's, what, between 3 and 6 hours worth of church to have a chance to catch the message that you get a free car?
Then the guy didn't listen to them all the way through so didn't get a car.
The guy was essentially orphaned from an abusive home and walked hours to work every day. The chic fil a guy was like "what an unfortunate story!"
motherfucker you tricked him like some kind of goblin
Plus it's not just about total time between "I want food" and "Nom nom". There's also the matter of how usable that time is. On a good day it might only take me a few minutes longer to get fast food, but all of that time is spent behind the wheel and most of it is spent driving. Making a sandwich at home, on the other hand, only about a minute is spent actively handling food. The other seventeen minutes while the patty cooks are free; I can it spend doing anything I please. So instead of comparing twenty minutes for fast food vs. eighteen minutes for DIY, it's really more like twenty minutes vs. one minute.
You need to buy the ingredients, which likely means you are committing to cooking at least four sandwiches. So you are going to have to go out to the grocery store anyway.
Cooking means you need to know how to cook the chicken. If you are going from deciding to eating, you aren't going to have time to brine the chicken. You also need to cook the fries, which may take longer than the chicken unless you cook premade fries.
You also need to clean up after you are done cooking, which adds additional time.
And if you really like a fast food place, they likely have an app so you can order and it will be ready by the time you get there.
Cfa moves fast. That's probably only a 10 min wait. If that was a mcdonald's or burger king it would be an hour wait.
Unfortunately no. They serve Limited menu, you'd be through that line in 10 minutes or so
I don't understand this restaurants draw. It's not that good and it is always packed. And they are owned by bigots.
Chick-Fil-A has been around more than my whole life. I remember going there as a kid in the mall. I remember going there as an adult in the mall.
At no time eating at Chick-Fil-A do I once recall thinking to myself "goddamn, this is exceptional!" It's a chicken sandwich. It's not particularly good or bad, and I am not into waffle fries.
At no time eating at Chick-Fil-A did I once think "this line is too long, I will eat elsewhere." I don't recall ever seeing a line at all.
Long about 1986 they started making standalone locations, but I never saw any until the 2000s. I never went, because I had long since decided that mediocre chicken sandwiches weren't really my thing. However, since I first noticed the standalone locations I have also noticed that their lines have consistently gotten longer and longer. It's interesting that the growth of these lines seem to have coincided with the rise of social media, but I won't get too tinfoil-hatty here.
So anyway. One day, I decided I should give them a try - obviously, they're getting something right, right? Let's see what all the hype is about.
Yeah no, it's the exact same mediocre shit. It's fine. It's not great, it's OK for fast food, maybe even slightly above average. But is it good enough to wait in a line like this that wraps around the building twice? No, thank you.
So I guess what I am saying is, I'm with you. I have to figure it's the power of marketing, because the only thing they've done that I can see is increase their marketing. Also their marketing - at least the public marketing (who knows what guerilla shit they do on social media to keep those lines growing) - is super weird. Cows exhorting you to eat chicken, because they don't want to die. I suppose given that cows have no messiah, this is a perfectly reasonable position for them to hold in the eyes of the Chick-Fil-A Illuminati, but idk.
Want a chicken sandwich? I can name half a dozen local shops that will hook you up with better. Is it fast? Jesus Christ, no. The apologists say yes, given the size of the lines, but I say no, given the size of the lines. I guess that's a matter of perspective.
What's not disputable is that this is fast food that, like all fast food - you can honestly live better without.
Your comment was so long, you should get English Comp101 college credits for that.
It's the sauce
It’s not that good compared to any food that isn’t fast food, but compared to other fast food joints it’s hard to beat on quality alone.
I absolutely hate this brand as a company but compared to other options in my area (DFW Texas) this terrible brand is usually faster and cheaper. If I forgot my lunch or something I may go here. Fortunately some of the newer chains have decided it might be a good idea to not be super expensive and slow and I've been going to those instead.
I used to eat lunch at one of these via motorcycle and would walk inside and every single fucking time I'd nearly be run over by a distracted driver.
I rarely go to such places but the quality of service tends to be above average.
It's incredibly easy to understand, people have different tastes and are able to not mind that it's packed! They're probably also unaware/don't care that the restaurant is owned by bigots.
It is good for fast food and, despite being packed, you could join a line of 20 cars and still be on your way in under five minutes. They are incredibly efficient and that helps when people are making decisions, especially with a screaming child in the back.
Maybe it's just because the one near me has horrible quality control but the lines are long, they are not quick, and the sandwiches are mediocre at best
They are incredibly efficient
Being efficient for a drive through and being efficient on an absolute scale are entirely different things. In reality, there is no such thing as an efficient drive through once you account for all the externalities.
What is the bigoted part about them? Sorry, my country only has a handful of American chains(looks at shitty pizza from Dominoes) and I don't think this one has launched here yet.
The owners are (or at least were) serious about their Christian beliefs and used the company's wealth to help fund anti-LGBTQ+ groups. Whether that's changed or not, I don't know, but they shell mediocre chicken sandwiches so it's no loss to just ignore them, except for the amount of pollution people seem to generate waiting in line around their buildings:
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/29/18644354/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-donations-homophobia-dan-cathy
European here, wtf am I looking at?
An American fast food restaurant with two drive-through lines wrapping entirely around the building, along with at least 10 curb-side pickup parking spots. At least 48 visible vehicles waiting for their christian bigotry-flavored chicken sandwiches and nuggets (Chick-Fil-A is the name of the restaurant).
We don't have one where I live, and every time my wife and I go to relatives houses where one is, she keeps telling me how good their food was growing up. I've never had them, and by the time I could drive to another town that had one, I was well aware of how shitty they are.
So every holiday, she breaks out the gift cards we got at our wedding, and asks if we can go this time. I've explained to her why I refuse to go. She agrees they're shitty. She still wants to eat there. So I tell her "I won't try to stop you from eating there, but I won't be joining you."
Unfortunately this attitude also makes me drive almost an hour to get things for some hobbies because I refuse to shop at hobby lobby. Most of their stuff feels like "curated aliexpress" though. Cheap shit, but someone found the best cheap shit. Someone gifted me a leather stamp from there that snapped on its second hit. Looked nice though.
I can see the appeal of fast food when you really can't be arsed to make anything, or you're away from home or whatever, but I can't fathom why you would wait in a line that is charitably going to take an hour to get to you, for incredibly bland food.
Especially when you could park up, go inside and skip the massive queue of cars. Or just eat literally anywhere else.
There's a Chick-fil-a in my town that had to pay to redo the parking lot multiple times because cunts would block the street to get into the drive thru.
I think it’s every chick-fil-a
Peak performance
Also "chick filet" is literally meaning "a cut of baby chicken carcass".
They also have a history of donating to christian camps that try to convert homosexuals (usually children) to become heterosexual using physical and psychological torture.
Everything about this company is evil.
Imagine how many people you could get to circle around a square building if they had pedestrian friendly infrastructure
Odd choice to pick an example with frequent crowd crushes.
World's oldest circle pit.
But that's communism!! /s
Just go in, jeez
Exactly, why would you wait in line for drive-in when you can just park your car and order inside? I thought the concept of drive-in was invented to save time, not waste it.
In North America it is common to have about 75% of the staff focus on filling drive thru orders while the rest handle walk ins. I'll frequently see 4-5 employees working different stations to make the drive thru flow while 1 employee has to handle all the work (except maybe the grill) for the walk ins.
In nearly every aspect of life in North America, you are treated as a second class citezen if you walk instead of drive.
Because it’s worse inside. Trust me on this lmao.
Uuuuuggghhh, are you suggesting i get out of my car?!? 😑
What, leave my car?? It's dangerous out there!
Yeah, you might get hit by a car out there.
How? There's multiple lanes of traffic I need to cross to get to the door!
I do wonder why the car park to the right of the store is blocked off by traffic cones.... 🤷
Gotta have that conservative christian chicken sandwich.
We call it "Hate Chicken".
"Bigot Chicken" here.
Never waiting that long for a mid ass chickin sandwich
it says something very interesting that the chik-fil-faithful swear up and down it's the tastiest thing ever when it's weak soggy breaded no spice bland ass whitemeat with a fuckin' pickle.
makes me wonder if they've either never had decent chicken, or are just lying because this one chicken vendor stans for xtians lol
I have to put my own mayo on the sandwich? WTF
I personally can’t think of any other fast food chicken sandwich that’s as good or better. Maybe Popeyes chicken sandwich if you want something crispier.
its insane yes, but it cant even keep up. Lines out to the street are common in Arkansas
In my opinion, this should be illegal or businesses fined. Their drive thru leaks onto public infrastructure (the road) reducing its throughput and potentially creating a dangerous situation.
Yes, it should be illegal. This happens with all the cult-y fast foods places out here. In N Out, Whataburger, Hate Chicken (aka Chick fil A), Dutch Bros, etc.
Parking, getting out, and going inside will easily save you 50%+ wait time.
Weren't parking minimums supposed to prevent this? :-D
Then again, the worse the traffic jams the more people may consider alternatives.
If anyone's going to get a fine there it would really be the individuals. While the business is creating the demand, there isn't really any process they could put in place to stop people lining out onto the road.
Also, if we were going to forbid it, what would be the substantive difference with forbidding just parking on the public road? Which, yeah, that's definitely a conversation we should have and a direction we should move towards—it'd probably have a greater effect anyway. But it's not clear that there's really a great mechanism for specifically banning queueing.
In WA they've had to close one because morons would back up onto the street, down an offramp, and onto the freaking interstate. For a chicken sandwich.
Of course it's in a non-walkable spot, across the interstate from all of the businesses and offices so everyone drives there
I don’t get it either. The chicken sandwich is OK at best. A solid 7/10 just for consistency. Everything else is meh. People seem to like their fry sauce, which is probably required to eat their flat tasting waffles fries.
Americans like sauces and dressings on things. Ranch on everything, unless it comes with their own sauce.
I grew up around the East Coast of the US so I've been exposed to Chick-fil-A since I was born. Then I lived a good portion of my life in the West Coast, and when Chick-fil-A starting popping up here, people were going nuts over it. I guess they still are and I feel like I'm the only sane one who knows their food is mid at best with all their sauces
Here in New England they're really struggling from what I've seen. Parking lots and drive-thrus empty despite having this crazy 2-lane designed drive-thru. I think different regions have different guilty pleasures.
“Why don’t kids play outside anymore?”
Why would they be playing outside at a fast food restaurant instead of their own yard?
A huge amount of cars waiting to move just reminds me of like a beetle nest.
I think a lot of the comments here mischaracterize chik fil a as another shitty burger joint in a way that would be confusing to people that never seen one. They make really good chicken sandwiches because chicken sandwiches is almost the only thing they make. While most fast food joints might have 1-3 people running it during non-peak hours, chic fil a constantly has a small army in there. I don't even know how so many people stay busy but that crazy looking line pictured will be cleared out in under 10 minutes.
Before I started actively boycotting them for their support of anti-LGBTQ work, I always felt their chicken was only ok. I think burger king’s Ch’King is way better and that Arby’s chicken sandwich is also superior. When they finally got to my market I was thrilled and then very quickly let down.
Unfortunately for most Americans, this is the situation. All of those places have a mediocre chicken sandwich because all of the restaurants are chains. Small businesses struggle with how new commercial areas are built, and chains run on such thin margins it is hard to compete.
I live in a Chicago neighborhood and have access to many delicious, reasonably priced chicken sandwiches. I have not had the need or the craving to go back to chic fila a since
Anyone else always read it as chick-fillah? It's such a stupid spelling.
I always said chick fil aye in my mind
That's how they want it to be pronounced, so success I guess.
How's it meant to be pronounced? I've only ever seen it written down.
Chick feeler? Chick filler? Chick fill urgh Chick fill Ah
I just don't understand what they're trying to call it. Unless it is "filler", my best guess is something like "fillet", though I can't make the letters match up with the words.
The only reason the lines backup now is because they don't use the normal drive thru system anymore. They try to be innovative and have people standing outside with iPads to take your order. Then you sit and wait for them to cook it all because they took too many orders at one time.also they usually have multiple lines all merge into one window. It's madness over at the chic fil a drive thru!
Having worked at a Wendy's, McDonald's, and a Chick-fil-A... The Chick-fil-A system is superior. At least from an employee standpoint. The amount of volume that we could move through the drive thru with the two lane system and people taking orders in person was kind of insane.
It shows with the employees, too. Slinging free drinks and pupper cups at me. Someone was a dick trying to get in line? Have some lemonade, bitch.
It is exactly like you said, but the line moves! It's nothing like other fast food restaurants. Yes chick looks like madness, but it's a controlled madness. It reminds me of Costco. If you been there during peak hours, it's a total madhouse. But, a controlled madhouse.
Idk before our Chick-Fil-A added the second line and started with the iPads, the line extended out onto the four lane road leading into the parking lot and back a block or two.
Same with the restaurant I work at, the parking lot is woefully too small for the volume of traffic we get, and the line regularly spills onto one of the busiest roads in town and holds up traffic badly. We're the third busiest restaurant of its brand in Canada.
Why would you not just use one of the free parking spots and go inside to order?
Notice how the entire car park to the right (where there is one car) is blocked off by traffic cones? I bet that isn't helping.
But as for the others.. yeah.
I thought Tim Horton line ups were bad. Holy heck how do they even account for this at the city planning level?
That's the neat part: they don't!
(Seriously, my city at least is so understaffed it's like the wild fuckin' west, with business owners doing whatever the Hell they want and betting they won't get caught.)
Been to Chik-Fil-A before, they arent even that great, or at least not especially compelling compared to kfc or popeyes. maybe im missing something though idk.
Deffo not so good I'd wait in a line longer then about four cars for them, and in my neck of the woods they have not caught on to that extent. Three of them by me and the lines are fairly minimal at each. So either amazing staff or folks dgaf about them. I'm leaning towards latter personally.
southerner nostalgia. just another reason north and south cant get along
That must be the case because we had a Cracker Barrel around here too and it failed pretty hard. Chik-Fil-A is surviving somehow though so I guess enough of their base is around for that at least.
I was just thinking about this today downstairs in the food court at the bottom of the office building I work in. Hundreds of people come through there for the lunch rush to dozens of fast food restaurants (sushi, buritoes, Thai etc), all in the space of less than 30x30m including seating. I was thinking: there's no way you could do this with a drive through.
I'm curious if they are this popular, or just slow as hell and just make the lines longer to hold more people so they can't leave to get better food
They're very popular and actually very fast as well. A long line like that would typically be no more than 5-6 minutes to get your food
They are very popular and actually have quick service once you finally get through the long line. Most of the ones around where I lived switched to two lanes. They were rated as having g the highest quality service for any fast food chain as well.
Yeah, the one near me has two lanes and four people standing out there to take orders.
..and I've only ever seen them staffed by children.
Every one I've been to was a 10ish minute wait for a sandwich and cold waffle fries.
Also they funded LGBTQI+ hate groups and as such are in my opinion hate chicken.
https://www.thetaskforce.org/chick-fil-a-and-lgbtq-discrimination/
And though they said they won't do that anymore, they will never see one red cent from me. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/business/chick-fil-a-lgbtq-donations/index.html
It's comical to me that conservatives now see them as forwarding the "woke" agenda and are avoiding the company because of it.
Also, their food is average at best.
I love Dutch Bros but they all look just like this too. Often with cars forming a line in the actual street.
> Dutch Bros
> no racks stacked with bikes, or bike-throughAs a Dutchman, what a Bullshit Brand
Yeah never understood the hype for that place. Just syrups and terrible espresso.
What's the red umbrella guy? Another order spot?
I'm guessing they basically made a second drive through line. They just need someone outside to walk the food out to the second line.
Given that exact location, and surrounding infrastructure, that is by far the fastest way
Gotta love how whenever someone posts something about Chick Fil A, there are several comments calling them bigots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people
They stopped donating to anti-LGBT organizations 11 years ago (except for FCA and the Salvation Army, organizations that are considered anti-LGBT due to stances, not actions. They stopped donating to those in 2020 anyways.)
Doesn't change the fact that they ever decided to donate to them in the first place. Some things you just don't get to come back from; sucks to be you.
Reminds me of a joke:
So a man walks into a bar, and sits down. He starts a conversation with an old guy next to him. The old guy has obviously had a few. He says to the man:
"You see that dock out there? Built it myself, hand crafted each piece, and it's the best dock in town! But do they call me "McGregor the dock builder"? No! And you see that bridge over there? I built that, took me two months, through rain, sleet and scorching weather, but do they call me "McGregor the bridge builder"? No! And you see that pier over there, I built that, best pier in the county! But do they call me "McGregor the pier builder"? No!"
The old guy looks around, and makes sure that nobody is listening, and leans to the man, and he says:
"But you fuck one sheep..."
Since we're already splitting hairs and crap like that around here I'd like to point out that it does not, in fact, suck to be Chick-fil-A. They're raking in billions and don't give a rat's ass.
Also yes, dissolve the company. ...... But gimme their weird chickeny pickle sandwiches and nugget-things because for some reason I like them 😰 Won't buy them for myself though.
Don't really want to support a place that makes their minimum wage employees stand outside to take people's orders either. That includes In N Out. And Dutch Brothers. Also none of them are as good as all the crowds imply, I don't really get it.
CFA employees make well above minimum wage around here.
Thank you! It drives me crazy how threads about chick fil-a are always exactly the same. "Bigots" and "chicken sucks anyway". Something didn't pass the smell test.
it's okay to like their greasy sloppy bullshit chicken in peace. you don't have to defend their bigotry online.
plus.
"they only USED TO donate to hate groups" really isn't the defense you think it is
