Though I agree with what you posted I thought maybe a little more perspective was in order.
There are 1614 CFA stores according to Wikipedia. If every store had 1000 people throughout the day, that would have been 1.614 MILLION people. I went by the CFA closest to me, at 7pm and 9pm. Both times they had OVERFLOW parking in neighboring lots, with HUNDREDS of people waiting to get in. At 7pm the line of cars was about 1/2 mile long.
If we double the 1.614 number (which I think is probably accurate) that would be 3.2 Million people.
Heres the perspective part.
There are approximatly 310 million people in the US. 3.2 million is about 1% of the entire US population.
Much larger than any rally in Washington, EVER. All within days. Mike Huckabee made the idea of August 1 being Chick Fil A appreciation day on July 22. TEN DAYS LATER millions show up.
My point being, don't sell the day short. This wasn't a few hundred thousand people. This was closer to a few million.
:-)
I did the same math you did, but I wanted to be conservative.
I literally looked up the number of stores and multiplied by how many went to the local CFA, just as you did. :-)