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I can only hope BGW doesnt get a CFA.
For both thematic and ideological reasons.


Now on the other hand if they wanted to open up a Fish n Chips shop somewhere that happened to also sell tenders and sammichs?
I would be down.
 
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belsaas said:
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Chick-fil-A’s Owner Is Bankrolling Hate Groups Targeting Trans Kids

“They’re doing hardcore, extreme stuff, but they make it seem like it’s a bunch of soup kitchens.”
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Chick-fil-A is under attack over its CEO's ties to a Christian charity accused of trying to squash proposed LGBTQ protections. Here's what we know about the chain's donations.

Chick-fil-A is facing backlash over its CEO's donations to the National Christian Charitable Foundation.
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Yes, Chick-fil-A Is Still Doing Harm to the Queer Community

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Also as @Zachary said, chain fastfood in a theme park makes it feel cheap to me. I expect that of a Six Flags, not a SEAS park.
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Chick Fil A is not your typical fast food. If it makes you feel cheap on the same level at McDonalds that’s on you. Also, I don’t really know what to tell you for their political slant. I’m not bothered enough to not eat there and neither is 95% of everyone else, so not sure what you really expect
 
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What does CFA do on Sundays in other parks, having taken the spot of some park-run restaurant that probably would have remained open on Sundays to serve the crowds that typically pour into a theme park during the second busiest day of the week? Going dark on Sundays sucks in a park that arguably has only half a dozen places to serve something like a full meal to a crowd of tens of thousands in the span of just a couple of hours per mealtime.

I know a lot of people who deliberately stay away from CFA due to their actively regressive political actions. Plenty of other people make a point of eating there specifically because they like it when certain demographics are treated as less-than. And then tons of people don’t care about what their money goes to support, either not thinking about it at all or otherwise imagining it doesn’t matter because somehow the product being sold makes the politics irrelevant. That range of sentiment doesn’t at all change what CFA is to me. Their actions represent their values. I don’t say this about many companies at all, but I won’t give them my money. They’ll still do just fine, a reflection of far more than just the values of one company.

Seeing it for what it is, CFA isn’t the sort of controversial and polarizing place I really want to deal with at a theme park. Between the politics, the complete thematic incongruity, and the Sunday doctrine, to me it represents the point where a park chasing profits is lying down with the wrong dog.

There may be marginal benefits… a CFA probably will keep far more people out of the lines for other places than its predecessor did. Just not on Sundays, when it will be a needed food service facility deliberately kept dark for reasons a great many of its customers don’t relate to, and which complicate the host park’s stated intentions to provide an environment that is inviting to everyone.

I’ll be curious to see how SEAS gets CFA to back away from their typical presentation of large styrofoam drink buckets. Or whether they punt on the environmental concerns in pursuit of that sweet chicken money.
 
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This thread is massively downplaying the popularity of chick-fil-a, to the point where I see people acting like the world of good it does for the park 6 days of the week is somehow outweighed by lengthening lines elsewhere one day. To add on to that, closing on sundays does not create an unwelcoming and oppressive environment like the comment above me claims it does.

At the end of the day it’s just a restaurant and nothing we say changes the park’s decision so I’ll leave it at that
 
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My quick piece on CFA:
If you go to one, get to know regular employees if you can. There’s one (of 5) near me that I always go to; and it’s infrequently; because the GM and Assistant GM are both LGBTQ+. At this franchise location the ownership loves to give the corporate people the middle finder by hiring as many LGBTQ+ people as possible and letting them wear pride pins.

So I do like to support that specific location when I can.
 
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halfabee said:
What does CFA do on Sundays in other parks, having taken the spot of some park-run restaurant that probably would have remained open on Sundays to serve the crowds that typically pour into a theme park during the second busiest day of the week? Going dark on Sundays sucks in a park that arguably has only half a dozen places to serve something like a full meal to a crowd of tens of thousands in the span of just a couple of hours per mealtime.
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If the one in Hershey is any indication (and I expect it is), CFA will be closed on Sundays. IIRC all in park locations are corporate partners.
 
I don't have a problem with this... with the correct placement / implementation.

MUCH, MUCH larger issues happening in Busch theme parks...
 
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This thread is massively downplaying the popularity of chick-fil-a, to the point where I see people acting like the world of good it does for the park 6 days of the week is somehow outweighed by lengthening lines elsewhere one day. To add on to that, closing on sundays does not create an unwelcoming and oppressive environment like the comment above me claims it does.
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That’s not at all what the post above you claims, though I now realize I didn’t do a great job with my wording to separate the effects of CFA’s Sunday closing doctrine from the effects of their anti-inclusion politics. Those are indeed two very different sets of negative impacts, one far more important than the other (which is merely annoying). They do stem from the same “reasons” fundamentally, as I stated. Still, I should have separated them better in that one sentence starting with “Just not on Sundays.”

With that said, I certainly hope most readers weren’t confused by it. “Did he really mean it’s a form of literal oppression for a theme park chicken dive to be closed on a Sunday?” No, pretty obviously he didn’t. But I’ll leave the original post as-is, so others can determine whether they would have really, truly concluded that from my murky sentence in the context of the rest of the post.

There is an interesting conversation to be had about the boundaries between encouraging the profit-generating activities of a company we’d like to see succeed and turning a blind eye to the pointedly anti-equality activities of a freely selected corporate partner. The number of chicken sandwiches that partner sells per day (including their dark day, of course) doesn’t obviate that discussion. In fact, it brings that discussion into raised relief.
 
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lightninlady said:
Really suspicious how people are disliking posts showing that CFA has done shitty things to the lgbt community. Anyway I think putting any fast food in a SEAS park is really tacky.
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IDK if I would call it suspicious. More like sad or disappointing but thats another discussion.

Back to the original topic I just remembered if they did want to go with a chicken chain in BGT they could have gone with Nandos and it would have matched a bit more then CFA.
 
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