This is the same Chick-Fila that I tried to get into last Wednesday and couldn't get near.
I was there from 9 to about 9:30. The place was *not* mobbed. I'd call business "steady" or "normal", prob 3-4 dozen people going through the restaurant while I was there. Plus whoever went through the drive-in, I couldn't see that.
I talked to the girl behind the counter for a bit. She said that she'd never seen anything like last week. Frankly, she looked like she was glad for a "break", if you'd call normal business traffic a break.
As a side note, probably 1/2 of the people who came through either asked the same question I did, or were talking (positively) about the prior week's events. IMHO, what's happening at Chick-Fil-A is a huge event, something that we might not see (or fully understand) the end result of for a good while. You wouldn't think that buying a chicken sandwich is an earth shattering act of political defiance, but I'm sure that other significant moments in history were only understood with hindsight, as well.
You wouldn’t think that buying a chicken sandwich is an earth shattering act of political defiance,
And, I guess people didn’t see that throwing tea overboard was a political defiant message either but as we know, it was.
IMHO, the Chick-fil-A stand was our tea moment. All it takes is that last straw.