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'Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day' sets record, restaurant chain says
Chick-fil-A says it set a sales record on Wednesday, the day that supporters rallied around the fast-food chain amid a debate over its president's opposition to same-sex marriage.
The chain won't release sales numbers, but "we can confirm reports that it was a record-setting day," said Steve Robinson, Chick-fil-A's executive vice president of marketing.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee had called on people to buy food at the chain on Wednesday, which he dubbed "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," after a backlash against the company and their president.
The controversy started after an interview with the fast-food restaurant chain's president and COO, Dan Cathy, appeared in The Baptist Press on July 16. He weighed in with his views on family.
"We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit," Cathy said. "We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that."
On a Facebook page Huckabee created announcing the event, more than 620,000 people said they would participate.
He called for a response to a backlash against the restaurants and its president. Customers flocked to the restaurants on Wednesday, many showing their support for the chain and Cathy's opposition to same-sex marriage.
Gay rights activists are planning to hold a "national same-sex kiss day at Chick-fil-A" on Friday.
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This may be one of the stupidest posts Ive ever seen. please crawl back under whatever rock you slithered out from.
Why did you bother reading it and posting comment for?
They will lose 30% of their sales for a while until this blows over. Bottom line is they have upset plenty of people to where they do NOT want their money to be spent on corporate donations to hate campaigns.
Surrrrrrre it was.
Hooray!!! I thought the whole country was Queeer! Thank goodness it is not!
Stay in the middle of the country Jim.
Looks like the commie loving liberals lost that round.
Still stuck in 1950 I see....
Congratulations Chick-Fil-A! You've got a great Chairman. Keep up the good work.
I will never go to any of these restaurants. Hate is hate, pure and simple.
"Hate is hate, pure and simple."
And based on your comments, you are different how ?
I love chick-fil-a, took by children, grandkids and will continuing going. Also I hope the president of Chick-fil-a donates 5 million to Romney's campaign. Yea Romney.
But he is not christian, you better be afraid, he is mormon! it is considered a dangerous cult by most christians!!!
I heard the employees coordinated a plan to spit in the food. I hope you didn't eat there...
The sad thing here is that there are kids living in cars and people out of work for years.
People losing their homes and men and women in our military being killed.
This is what you selfish self serving children choose to support.????
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???
You all need to grow up and learn to fight a COMMON ENEMY...NOT EACH OTHER.
Chic Fil A was passing out free brownies when I was there. On Friday's kiss in they plan on passing out free HIV screening kits.
GLBT are hypoctrits....want their free speech but not others.....
Most in the LGBT community would agree with his right to say what he wants...and we have a right not to buy from his restaurant if we don't agree with his views and how he spends his companies money. What a crazy example of free speech on both sides.
A person making a statement is free speech. A company that is in the business of serving the public making an anti "anything" is just wrong, and reminds people like me of some people having to ride in the back of the bus! So make your statement as an individual (and I'll dimply call you an A$$), but do it as a company and I will never frequent your establishment again and will encourage others to do the same.
ALL GLBT? Wow, that is pretty bigoted. That is like me saying that "all Christians support hate groups," which only CFA does.
I won't eat there again now that I know they are bigots. Not sure they will lose money though, those christians in line seemed awfully fat and could chow down on fried chicken till the cows come home.
It won't take them long to get fat off of that greasy fast food. Then they will die and go to heaven. What's that? A bullentin just in. When God created the universe and the big bang happened, he was killed in the explosion. To late guys. Guess you will have to choose the alternative. See you in Devil's Paradise.
@Steve....you'll eat there again. When you have an opinion, conservative christians will respect that opinion, whatever it may be, we won't even critize it, we'll just leave it alone because you have that rights....
the greatest single threat to this nation is the fundamentalist christians, who preach a doctrine of hatred against anyone who doesn't share their belief system. Not to worry, though.....they will wither away.
This Christian wholeheartedly agrees with you.
Yea- they used to feed us to lions also, see how that worked out!
Lol. That was pretty funny Jimbo. Saying that the number one danger to America is hate, and then singling out a specific group of people as the source of the problem. "Hate is the problem. And those Christians just can't stop hating people. Gosh I hate them. Don't worry though, they'll go away eventually." I'm assuming you intended the irony. Pretty funny.
Dude, you are warped. This whole argument was started by liberals who want to censor free speech.
The man expressed his viewpoint, you all simply disagreed. But since you didn't like his viewpoint, liberals went off the deep end again as always.
Proof once again that Liberalism is a social disease.
So the rednecks have an official place to eat their artery-clogging crap food. I don't know what is dumber, their customers or their name.
Cheng508, do you really believe this was all a marketing scheme with Huckabee getting kick backs. So does that mean Rohm Emmanuel is getting paid by McDonalds?
The people have spoken.