Chick-fil-A is always closed on Sunday — except in these rare inspiring instances

Kate Taylor



Dec. 18, 2017, 12:46 PM

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Chick-fil-A is always closed on Sunday.
Occasionally, however, locations will open in emergencies, providing free food to those in need.
Chick-fil-A prepared free meals for the thousands of passengers stranded after a power failure halted activity at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Similar instances happened following the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting and when tornadoes hit Texas in 2015.


It is a well-established fact that Chick-fil-A refuses to open on Sunday.

It's a tradition that has been in place since the company's foundational years. The company attributes the rule to Truett Cathy on its website: "Having worked seven days a week in restaurants open 24 hours, Truett saw the importance of closing on Sundays so that he and his employees could set aside one day to rest and worship if they choose — a practice we uphold today."

However, in very specific situations, Chick-fil-A employees will spring into action on Sunday.

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When the world's busiest airport closed for hours without power on Sunday, stranding thousands of passengers, Chick-fil-A employees made thousands of sandwiches for people stuck in Atlanta.

"While Chick-fil-A is always closed on Sunday, our restaurants open occasionally to serve communities in need," spokesperson Amanda Hannah said in an email to Business Insider.

This isn't the first time that Chick-fil-A has opened on a Sunday.

In 2016, following the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, local Chick-fil-A locations broke tradition to open on a Sunday. Employees worked to prepare food for first responders and people donating blood following the shooting at the gay nightclub, which killed 49 people.

In 2015, Chick-fil-A locations in Texas prepared free food for responders and others impacted by tornadoes that ripped through the state, killing 11 people.

According to Hannah, when Chick-fil-A opens on Sunday, the company does not make a profit. Instead, she said, it attempts to "do what we can to offer comfort to people experiencing hardship."

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Chick-fil-A did WHAT on Sunday?

TODD'S AMERICAN DISPATCH



By Todd Starnes

Published June 14, 2016


FoxNews.com





(Courtesy of Chick-fil-A)


It’s not all that unusual in the Christian faith to express sympathy and compassion by preparing a country ham or a batch of biscuits or a peach cobbler.


It’s how we show folks that we care – we feed them.


Honestly, I think we do a better job communicating love with a sweet potato pie than we do with words.



Or if you are Chick-fil-A you communicate love through a chicken sandwich.


And that brings me to a heartwarming story that has emerged from the aftermath of the Islamist terrorist attack in Orlando.

Now, I should tell you that the folks over at Chick-fil-A are going to be mighty upset with me. They did not want me to tell you what I’m about to tell you.


But it’s a story you really need to hear. It’s a story we all need to hear – a chicken sandwich for the soul kind of story.

Normally Chick-fil-A is closed on Sunday so workers can go to church or spend time with their families or just sit on the front porch in a rocking chair and wave to passersby.


So when I received word through some of our readers that several Chick-fil-A restaurants in Orlando had opened their doors on Sunday – I was a bit intrigued.


Hours after the gunman had massacred 49 people and wounded dozens more in the Pulse nightclub, the community sprang into action.


One of the most inspiring photographs showed hundreds and hundreds of people waiting in long lines – for hours to donate blood.


Team members at two nearby Chick-fil-A restaurants figured those folks must be getting hungry. So somebody flipped on the lights and they started frying chicken.


Before long they were serving sandwiches and nuggets and sweet tea to all the folks waiting to donate blood – along with a host of law enforcement personnel.


“We love our city and love the people in our community,” a team member wrote on the restaurant’s Facebook page.


The following day many of their restaurants provided free chicken biscuits and orange juice to firefighters and police officers and first responders.


“We are appalled by the senseless crime that was committed this weekend, but we are part of a community that stands strong and stands together,” they wrote on Facebook.


So why is Chick-fil-A so generous?


It’s because Chick-fil-A’s number one priority is not to make a profit (which they do.) And it’s not to make the best chicken sandwich in the world (which they do).


Their number one corporate priority is to “glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.”


Chick-fil-A declined to comment on their activities in Orlando.


“We are just honored to be one of many organizations that are helping our friends and neighbors in the Orlando community during this difficult time,” a spokesperson for their central Florida stores told me.


Now, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the giant egg in the room.


Back in 2012, Chick-fil-A was targeted by leftwing bullies – after CEO Dan Cathy made comments supporting traditional marriage.


They were accused of making “hate chicken.” They were accused of being anti-gay. And they were castigated by the mainstream media.


In May a New York City councilman objected to the Southern restaurant chain opening a store in Queens.


Mayor Bill de Blasio urged New Yorkers to boycott Chick-fil-A and Councilman Daniel Dromm accused them of spreading a “message of hate.”


I suspect if you asked folks around Orlando would strongly disagree with that sentiment.


If you asked them, I bet they would tell you that Chick-fil-A doesn’t just serve chicken, they serve a community.


As we say back home in Tennessee – those folks at Chick-fil-A – they’re good people.


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