Chick-fil-A feels free-market bite
Lewis DiuguidLittle margin for error exists in the fast-food industry. Chick-fil-A learned that the hard way after its president, Dan Cathy, made comments opposing same-sex marriage.
The company, in an about-face, now pledges to stop giving money to anti-gay groups and to avoid such topics. Organizations such as Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marrriage will have to find another trough from which to feed.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Equality Matters, an LGBT advocacy group, showed that Chick-fil-A donated $3 million to Christian groups opposed to homosexuality between 2003 and 2009. In 2010 the fast-food company gave nearly $2 million to such groups.
That’s a lot of sandwiches. Cathy’s comments resulted in both support for Chick-fil-A and boycotts of the company.
The support resulted in long lines of people eating at the fast-food company for a day or two. The company’s recent response shows that the business loss from people voting with their dollars and stomachs to take their business to one of many other restaurants had a greater, more lasting effect.
Joe Jones
9 months agoI guess this is why Chick Fil A is having record setting sales?
Wow almost lunch time..you spurred me to go to CHICK FIL A
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoYou of course have a link showing the company saying the boycott is hurting sales lewis?
Mark Hastert
9 months agoAwww….they had a genuine heartfelt conversion….
Stephen Platt
9 months agoPlease explain the free-market bite headline to me. This sounds more like Chick-Fil-A is facing threats and intimidation much like a Rainbow PUSH Coalition tatic. Ironic name Jesse Jackson names his group isn’t it.
Phil Cardarella
9 months agoI really did not need another reason to NOT go to Chick-fil-a besides their crappy waffle fries, but i have not been back since I found out that part of my money would be going to finance bigotry.
Bigotry sorta leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Mark Hastert
9 months ago“Bigotry sorta leaves a bad taste in the mouth.”
….and high in cholesterol.
Johnathon Busby
9 months agoWell, they changed their practices, that’s what really matters. One step at a time, we can stop the anti-equality agenda. Regards to motive, either 1) they sincerely changed their ways, or 2) they don’t care for how this has affected their profitability.
Seems to me far more likely they re-affirmed their love of money, as opposed to suddenly embracing equality. That’s business.
Mark Hastert
9 months ago“You godless liberals”
You see there’s that first amendment thing for ya. We Liberals worship the same God as everybody else we’re also free not to. Some think than their particular religious views are superior to those of others. A Liberal believes that we’re all free to have our own opinion and worship any way we wish.
On the one hand our legislatures ban Sharia law and on the other they want to pass laws that are the Christian equivalent. Religious intolerance isn’t confined to mobs burning embassies. Once you claim sole possession of God you’re on the same path.
Johnathon Busby
9 months agoJerry: I do not criticize that you believe, though I find it unreasonable. I criticize those who use their belief to treat others as less than equal. But that’s just me.