Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City | The New Yorker
"Chick-fil-A’s corporate purpose begins with the words “to glorify God,” and that proselytism thrums below the surface of its new Fulton Street restaurant.
During a recent lunch hour, I was alone on the rooftop of the largest Chick-fil-A in the world.
The restaurant, on Fulton Street, is the company’s fourth in Manhattan, and it opened last month to the kind of slick, corporate-friendly fanfare that can only greet a new chain.
...New York has taken to Chick-fil-A.
One of the Manhattan locations estimates that it sells a sandwich every six seconds, and the company has announced plans to open as many as a dozen more storefronts in the city.
And yet the brand’s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism.
Its headquarters, in Atlanta, is adorned with Bible verses and a statue of Jesus washing a disciple’s feet.
Its stores close on Sundays.
...When a location opened in a Queens mall, in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a boycott.
No such controversy greeted the opening of this newest outpost.
Chick-fil-A’s success here is a marketing coup.
Its expansion raises questions about what we expect from our fast food, and to what extent a corporation can join a community..."
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