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How do you even walk in there?

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I don’t think you do

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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/

https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a36622217/chick-fil-a-owner-donations-against-equality-act/

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

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-chick-fil-a-has-not-resumed-donations-groups-oppose-lgbtq-rights/3244765001/

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.

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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

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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.

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Yeah, the one near me has two lanes and four people standing out there to take orders.

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…and I’ve only ever seen them staffed by children.

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9 points

Why would you not just use one of the free parking spots and go inside to order?

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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.

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You’d think so, but Chic Fil A is insanely fast to the point where sitting in line probably faster than the walk and wait.

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It is more convenient to wait in your car. Getting down takes longer

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Yet people say that city people are always in a rush.

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