UK debut Chick-fil-a to close

My only experience of Chick-fil-A is that it was one of only 5 food outlets at Tampa FLA airport landside, and I got from them a chicken burger, rather nice salad and some curvy fries which I had in my hotel room with a bottle of Beyerskloof Pinotage I found in my luggage.

I couldn't understand why it was closed on a Sunday when I returned a few days later ..

So I was interested that the chain had their eyes on the UK market, opening their first place last week.

Well, apparently they are giving up on the UK and going to close their debut restaurant.

UK's first Chick-fil-A to close after LGBT+ backlash
18-Oct-2019 By Sophie Witts
US fast food chain Chick-fil-A is to close its debut UK restaurant following criticism from LGBT+ groups.
https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Articl ... T-backlash

[Jenise]

They opened one on the college campus in my liberal town, and it too closed. For political reasons, I avoided it and to this day have never tried what they do.

Chick-Fil-A are bad people. I won't cross their threshold, never mind give them money.

My only experience of Chick-fil-A is that it was one of only 5 food outlets at Tampa FLA airport landside, and I got from them a chicken burger, rather nice salad and some curvy fries which I had in my hotel room with a bottle of Beyerskloof Pinotage I found in my luggage.
I love that you found!! A bottle of Pinotage in your luggage.

I love that you found!! A bottle of Pinotage in your luggage.

Lucky eh? There were no wine shops landside in the airport.

There's a different take on this story in today's Guardian: it says thelandlord of the shopping mall announced they would not extend Chick-fil-a's 6-month lease.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... rights-row

No loss. Plenty of nice people sell good chicken.