They've earned my business FOR LIFE.

[Cranky]

Used to own a furniture store and displayed a sign that said we have the right to refuse business to anyone. Is that discrimination? If it is, how so? If a gay couple walks in to my store arm in arm and are lip locked, I have the right to tell them to take it somewhere else. Plain and simple just like I have the same right to tell a heterosexual couple that walks in doing the same thing to take it somewhere else but I bet you money, I'll get repercussions from the gay couple along with every lawyer in town that wants to jump on the band wagon to let the world know that they have rights to do that crap anywhere they want....

 

[patrick66]

A business has the right to refuse service for ANY reason they deem fit, so long as it's legal. "No shirt, no shoes, no service" also applies to the belligerent, the obnoxious, and the in-your-face types - which the gays that shut down that bakery were. So, Greg, let's say YOU own a bakery and someone wants a cake that celebrates, say, lynching, or child abuse, or axe murders. They want a pretty graphic cake. You refuse to bake the cake. What then??? And, yes, the premise is EXACTLY the same!!!

 

[JoeSbee]

Ok I shouldn't ,But What's really wrong is that .The ones who scream for equality really want special treatment or rights. That the truth is so distorted with so many issues. That if it offenses someone /special interest group they seem to have more rights than you or I do. Somehow they have a larger voting base than you or I. I really could rant on. But I must go pull the wagon for all those who just ride in it

 

[moparedtn]

I grew up in SW Atlanta in the 60s-70s (pretty much Chick-Fil-A's home) and we sold coupons for their sandwiches for Little League fundraisers and such.
The company was big into the community then (as now) and we actually met a lot of the Cathy family in those days. Real nice folks, salt of the earth types.

My dad used to fuss that they were way too expensive back then (75 cents!) but he liked (as president of the local Little League) that their coupons were certainly neater to keep track of than the World's Finest candy bars that would melt and make a mess in the families' 1968 Dodge Monaco wagon.

They were a treat for us kids back then and they still are to this day for me now. I eat there every week without fail as my travels take me by one here or there.
Never, ever, have I had them screw up an order, be rude or give me poor quality food. Ever.
Their hiring and franchise ownership guidelines are the best in the biz and the company routinely wins customer polls.

In short, a damn fine American company that's provided jobs for tens of thousands, gives back in spades to the community and is committed to being the best in the business at what they do.

Notice I haven't slandered, name-called or otherwise attacked their opponents ad-hominem style like others in this thread have?
Neither do they.
There's a reason for that...and yes, they have my business for life.