Sentences with phrase «fil a»

Schultz and Chick - Fil - A's Dan Cathy (who spoke out opposing gay marriage) have faced withering critiques for their activism, while Facebook's Sandberg and Goldman Sach's Blankfein have generally been praised for their public statements supporting gender and marriage equality.

It was a short time later that Chick - fil - A sent Muller - Moore a letter telling him to stop using the phrase because the company felt it could be confused with «eat mor chikin.»

Is Chick - fil - A the nation's most beloved fast food chain?

That's exactly how Chick - fil - A franchise owners feel as they anticipate the grand opening of their new restaurants.

Today, McDonald's is pushing its McCafe offerings, as players such as Taco Bell, Chick - fil - A and Starbucks have attempted to encroach on the breakfast market in the past year.

While the blend of spices that sets Chick - fil - A's chicken apart remains a secret, locked securely in Chick - fil - A's home office in Atlanta, the rest of the recipes reveal a quite simple approach — fresh, clean ingredients made from scratch each day in more than 2,000 restaurants throughout the country.

After success with chains such as Subway and Chick - fil - A, Vani Hari is taking on the cereal industry.

During his six seasons as head coach they have gone 27 - 46 and competed in only one bowl game — the 2011 Chick - fil - A bowl.

The former, which sells and installs beehives at various company locations, has inked contracts with clients including Delta and Chick - fil - A, while the latter works with film studios and directors including Darren Aronofsky — charging them as much as $ 50,000 a pop — to make a film or television production more ecologically friendly.

«It is important to us to provide a wide variety of menu options and this will occasionally mean we have to remove one menu item to make room for another,» Chick - fil - A wrote.

David Farmer, Chick - fil - A's vice president of menu strategy and development, told Business Insider that the service would not only benefit customers — it would also clear out the area in front of the counter where customers cluster to pick up their food.

Chick - fil - A also launched frosted lemonade nationwide, which is a blend of fresh - squeezed lemonade and its «icedream» ice cream.

In July, Don Cathy told the Baptist Press that «we,» as in Chick - fil - A, «are very much supportive of the family — the Biblical definition of the family unit.»

Chick - fil - A has been criticized in the past for supporting anti-gay-marriage organizations.

Chick - fil - A got rid of cole slaw, which has been on the menu for 49 years, and is replacing it with a kale and broccolini salad.

A couple months earlier, an Iowa Chick - fil - A restaurant donated 200 sandwiches to the city's gay - pride picnic.

A Chick - fil - A franchisee announced plans to support an LGBT film festival in October.

McDonald's U.S. has been trimming complicated menus, ceding control to restaurant operators and testing customized burgers to compete with popular chains ranging from Chic - fil - A to Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG).

The service lets parents order at the drive - thru with their children in the car with them, then go inside where a Chick - fil - A employee will have a table ready — with however many high chairs they need — and serve them.

Chick - fil - A supporters rallied to the company's defense, resulting in record single - day sales, but one day of round - the - block lines was not enough to account for the months of bad press the company endured.

For example, if you're at Chick - fil - A, go for the breaded and fried Chicken Sandwich over the Cobb Salad.

Manhattan's first Chick - fil - A opened on October 3 at the corner of West 37th Street and 6th Avenue in a three - story, 5,000 - square - foot space.

The new restaurant is one of 88 that Chick - fil - A opened across the country in 2015.

Chick - fil - A, which is usually closed on Sundays, opened to provide meals for travelers, according to the airport's Twitter feed.

Chick - fil - A received a «B,» and McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts received «C's.»

Chick - fil - A's sandwich is a heavy - weight competitor, dominating all the taste tests Business Insider has thrown at it.

The change even prompted one Chick - fil - A fan to start a petition requesting that the chicken restaurant bring it back.

Chick - fil - A was the first in the quick service restaurant industry to announce a commitment to «No Antibiotics Ever» in its chicken supply back in 2014.

While other Chick - fil - A menu changes have also sparked some Internet outrage, we shouldn't expect them to come back anytime soon.

Because chicken makes up 99 % of our menu, Chick - fil - A is prioritizing completely eliminating any antibiotic use in the poultry supply first.

But Chick - fil - A's strengths — simplicity and quality — helped it come out on top in the end.

This new sandwich, however, is as close as McDonald's can get to Chick - fil - A's formula.

On the three - dollar tier of the menu sits the new classic chicken sandwich, which almost anyone can see is a direct stab at Chick - fil - A's sandwich.

The fast food restaurant launched a mobile ordering app called «Chick - fil - A One.»

A recent AP story reported on the David - and - Goliath battle between a Vermont folk artist and the Chick - fil - A restaurant chain.

Blogger Vani Hari has had a busy few years, convincing Chick - fil - A to cut the corn syrup and forcing Subway to remove chemicals from its bread.

So Chick - fil - A partnered with Thrive Farmers, which operates with a more ethical payment system that splits revenues of bean sales with the farmers that harvest them.

The company's senior manager of digital experience, Michael Lage, told Business Insider that it's particularly helpful for those with young kids: «I have a 2 - year - old daughter, and I can't imagine interacting with Chick - fil - A without the app anymore.»

In acting this way, Chick - fil - A is setting an example for other companies, and contributing to an overall pattern that is liable to have a chilling effect on free speech and entrepreneurship.

Chick - fil - A joins the ranks of other fast food chains that have recently implemented mobile ordering including Starbucks (sbux), Dunkin' Donuts (dnkn), and Taco Bell (yum).

Chick - Fil - A and gay marriage, anyone?

One year ago, Chick - fil - A made a very similar move: It had always offered coffee, but as Chik - fil - A VP of strategy David Farmer told Fortune, «We weren't focused on it, and customers weren't as excited for the coffee as they were about the other menu items we're known for.

The drink popularized by craft coffee shops has been adopted by various chains in the past couple of years, including Starbucks (sbux), Peet's, Le Pain Quotidien, and even Chick - Fil - A.

The company's lawyer has told Muller - Moore that his kale slogan «is likely to cause confusion of the public and dilutes the distinctiveness of Chick - fil - A's intellectual property and diminishes its value.»

Why it's hot: Chick - fil - A rolled out a popular app last year that lets customer order and pay for their food, and the company has been expanding to new territory in the Northeast.

But CEO Cheryl Bachelder says that as the chain expands in the US and abroad, the company's biggest competitors are not KFC and Chick - fil - A, two other quickly growing chicken chains.

But Chick - fil - A One isn't just a mobile ordering app; it's also a rewards program.

Chick - fil - A also ranked eighth overall in total sales, despite a relatively low number of locations.

Before Cathy passed away in 2014, he made his children sign a contract agreeing that Chick - fil - A will always remain a private company.

According to a 2016 annual drive - thru report by QSR Magazine, Chick - fil - A was voted the most polite chain restaurant.