... no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Truett Cathy is one of the nation’s most endearing success stories. Beginning with a small restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Ga., in 1946, he opened his first Chick-fil-A restaurant in the early 1960s. The privately-owned corporation is now the second-largest quick service chicken restaurant chain in the U.S., with 1,400 locations and annual sales of $2.6 billion in 2007.
Not one of the locations is open on Sunday, and never will be.
“It was not hard to decide to close on Sunday,” said Truett Cathy, who first implemented the policy at The Dwarf Grill, and calls it the best business decision he ever made. “When you work 24 hours, six days a week, you’re ready for a break.”
The closed on Sunday policy is one of three points of a covenant that the family put in writing some years ago.
“Success is all about succession,” said Dan Cathy, explaining a covenant the family formulated to articulate their commitment and values and re-assure store operators that current priorities will be sustained in the future.
The covenant also spells out the company’s commitment to never go public, and to always make decisions regarding the business in a consensus format.
Family members may have different perspectives, but it is important that the parents and the three children be together and in harmony in the decisions, said Dan Cathy.
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I do too. But that is not ‘seperation of church and state’.