ATLANTA
(AP) -- Chick-fil-A has set a one-day sales record amid an ongoing
controversy over a company executive's public stance against same-sex
marriage.
The Atlanta-based company confirmed
in a statement Thursday that the sales record was broken Wednesday for
"Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" after it was declared by former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and Fox News talk-show host.
Chick-fil-A vice president Steve
Robinson says the company won't release sales figures for Wednesday,
when customers lined up outside restaurants and the Rev. Billy Graham,
the 93-year-old evangelist, dined on a Chick-fil-A lunch.
In Louisville and Elizabethtown,
Ky., and in Clarksville, Ind., customers lined up for hours in person
and in the drive-through lane to order meals, many to show support for
the company and its president. Lines extended past closing hour in
Clarksville Wed. night, as WDRB News reported.
Restaurant chain president Dan
Cathy told the Baptist Press last month that the company was "guilty as
charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family." Gay rights
activists and others answered with calls for boycotts. They plan a
national "Kiss In" at Chick-fil-A restaurants on Friday to protest the
owners' position.
Copyright 2012 WDRB News and The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
A friend of mine called from Long Beach, MS. Long lines and police directing traffic at Chick-Fil-A! What a country! What a response!!! May God Bless America!
http://www.wdrb.com/story/19184802/chick-fil-a-sets-sales-record-in-gay-marriage-flap
(AP) -- Chick-fil-A has set a one-day sales record amid an ongoing
controversy over a company executive's public stance against same-sex
marriage.
The Atlanta-based company confirmed
in a statement Thursday that the sales record was broken Wednesday for
"Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" after it was declared by former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and Fox News talk-show host.
Chick-fil-A vice president Steve
Robinson says the company won't release sales figures for Wednesday,
when customers lined up outside restaurants and the Rev. Billy Graham,
the 93-year-old evangelist, dined on a Chick-fil-A lunch.
In Louisville and Elizabethtown,
Ky., and in Clarksville, Ind., customers lined up for hours in person
and in the drive-through lane to order meals, many to show support for
the company and its president. Lines extended past closing hour in
Clarksville Wed. night, as WDRB News reported.
Restaurant chain president Dan
Cathy told the Baptist Press last month that the company was "guilty as
charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family." Gay rights
activists and others answered with calls for boycotts. They plan a
national "Kiss In" at Chick-fil-A restaurants on Friday to protest the
owners' position.
Copyright 2012 WDRB News and The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
A friend of mine called from Long Beach, MS. Long lines and police directing traffic at Chick-Fil-A! What a country! What a response!!! May God Bless America!
http://www.wdrb.com/story/19184802/chick-fil-a-sets-sales-record-in-gay-marriage-flap
