By all accounts, Mike Huckabee’s “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day is looking like a huge success for the company.
Business Insider has a round up of reports coming in from around the country, thus far:
Knoxville News Sentinel editor/reporter Jesse Smithey tweeted this pictureof a long line of cars at a Tennessee Chick-fil-A:Across the country, Twitter users described “mile long traffic to get into chick-fil-a,” stores “so crowded there are cops directing traffic off the highway” and “26 cars in the drive through.” One user, EWErickson, wrote that the “crowd was so big I gave up.”
Earlier, several North Carolina Wendy’s restaurants posted signs saying “We Stand With Chick Fil A.” The fast-food chain, a rival of Chick-fil-A, tweeted atMSNBC’s Thomas Roberts today that the signs were put up by an independent franchisee and have since been taken down. “We proudly serve ALL customers,” Wendy’s tweeted.]
Erick Erickson, editor of the conservative blog Red State, tweeted this picture and estimated the line was “a quarter mile long”:
The Odessa American reported that the Odessa, Texas, Chick-fil-A doubled its profits this morning alone. More than 600,000 people had joined Huckabee’s Facebookgroup and pledged to go to a Chick-fil-A today.
August, 1, 2012 at 12:46 pm
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August, 1, 2012 at 1:06 pm
In Ohio, my local Chick-fil-a had people lined up through the restaurant and out the door. The restaurant sits along a busy road in front a shopping center. Cars were lined up in the drive-thru out into two sides streets onto the main road. The large parking lot was full, and people were parking in two separate parking lots in front of the JC Penney and waling across the street and traffic to go into the Chick-fil-A.
August, 1, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Stand for religious freedom by eating at a fast food restaurant…if that isn’t America, I don’t know what is.
August, 1, 2012 at 2:31 pm
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August, 1, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Unfortunately, there isn’t a Chick-Fil-A in either Oregon or Washington. The closest one to me is either Boise, Idaho or Sacramento, CA, so all I can do is voice support for the company and its standards.
Which I have done. Thank God (literally) for people with high standards and beliefs that control their lives.
August, 1, 2012 at 5:24 pm
I couldn’t get near a store at lunch time [at any location]. Decided to go back later in the afternoon. Police were dispatched to control traffic that was lined up out of the parking lots onto the streets at lunch time. Later people were still lining up to get into the place. Lines went out the door.
Had my Spicy Chicken sandwich and a order of “1st Amendment No Waffling Fries”.
“For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a Taste the protected will never know”
August, 1, 2012 at 6:04 pm
We know these are mostly Conservatives supporting Chick-fil-A. Lets hope this enthusiam continues through Nov 6 2012!!
August, 1, 2012 at 9:11 pm
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August, 1, 2012 at 10:28 pm
The protestors need to re-read the first chapter of Romans.
August, 1, 2012 at 11:01 pm
H8er.
August, 1, 2012 at 11:55 pm
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August, 2, 2012 at 1:58 pm
[...] . . [Cross-posted at RedState] . [Update 08/01/12]: Thanks to Nice Deb for including this post in her Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day round-up! Lots of great links to CFA action all across the country at her [...]
August, 2, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Great round-up of info from all around the country! (Thanks for including my post, too….)
Mr. TiFW went to our CFA for lunch and dinner – waited in line for 30 minutes at 7:00 pm, said that everyone was smiling and very patient; nobody left the line at the drive-thru.
August, 2, 2012 at 6:52 pm
I went to a Chick Fil A yesterday and asked that dude at the counter for a Chicken Sandwich and some Waffle Fries…for free…never gave it to me. Last time I ever even try to give them my service…freaking ridiculous.
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