A Chick-fil-A owner shocked his employees in the best way after shutting down for renovations
Source: Yahoo Finance
A Chick-fil-A owner recently had to shut down his Austin, Texas, restaurant for five months for renovations.
Instead of temporarily laying off his 50 workers, Jeff Glover shocked his staff by continuing to pay them during the entire five months the restaurant would be closed, ABC affiliate KVUE reports.
Glover even gave them a $1-per-hour raise for sticking with him.
Starting pay at Glover's Chick-fil-A is $11 an hour and he pays full-time workers roughly $3,600 a month before taxes, according to KVUE.
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Almost as impressive as him continuing to pay them was starting pay at a fast food place at $11/hour.
Wow. I'm quite stunned that there's someone involved with that pretty horrible company who is actually a great person.
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A non-standard one, but a coupon.
The church didn't get money out of it. Or not much. That begs for an explanation.
CFAs do "spirit nights", fundraisers. My school's stuco has 2-3 per night. The football team, cheer squad, theater company, band, orchestra all have their own spirit nights. The next high school over (whose zoning border is the road the CFA is on) does the same. As does the middle school and a couple of elementary schools, all public. Then there are community groups, churches, etc. I've seen some CFAs where, to avoid having everybody who came in saying they were with the group whose fundraiser was being advertised ("Tell us if you're here for the Quack-a-roony Save the Ducks Fund!"
they'd require ID or proof of some affiliation--show your student ID, for example, or give the name of the play or what street the church was on.
The discount may have been a reduction in the amount of money that the church got as a result of its fundraiser; or possibly you misunderstood. It's equal opportunity. You have a group, sign up for a spirit night fundraiser. There may be some constraints on whose allowed--it is, after all, a private organization and it may have its own rules that don't violate federal regulations that govern our behavior.
What you're describing is also not a separation of church and state, unless you have some evidence that CFA is part of the state governing apparatus--a branch of the EPA or OSHA perhaps, or it reports to the Dept. of Education or the state DMV. Otherwise what you really want is a separation of church from civic and public life. Many do and don't see the different between "state" and "public life". But since public life is composed of the public, and churches are composed of the public, that's really calling for a pandemic of full-blown schizophrenia.
Excuse me, two of my other selves are complaining. One wants the coffee sweeter and the other really wants me to plant the yellow hibiscus because he likes yellow and the red one's already in the ground. "Lambda discrimination"--lambda being the symbol for wavelength--he's screaming.
He's over-estimating the time so as not to back himself into a corner. You know, like how the airlines estimate landing times.
Cher
Maybe it's s word usage issue, but they don't print "tracts" on their wrappers.
They print citations on them - eg "John 3:16" - not even the verses themselves, just the citations.
"Tracts" are small pamphlets or booklets, like the wildly unintentially funny comics published by Jack Chick:
Those gems, known as "Chick Tracts" after their author, have nothing to do with the sandwich restaurant.
The citations are about as prominent a religious symbol as the Kosher Union certification, which anti-Semites are careful to look for in order not to buy food paying the "Jew Tax". (utterly disregarding that the larger volume of sales from a larger market allows lower unit price)
Those that are into pasting them on things will call a bible verse a "verse", but they'll also call a citation to one a "verse". I only use the word "citation" to avoid ambiguity, in that they don't print the whole verse.
But you wouldn't call it a "tract citation" either. The Bible wouldn't be called a "tract". A "tract" is a little booklet you used to find in phone booths or passed out at airports.
Some of the major assholes use one called "A tip for you" or similar titles, in lieu of tipping at restaurants. I mean, what's 15% on a bill, when this little booklet can point you to eternal riches!
Some are designed to look like money
I like the seasonings, and I like the way it's fried - not too much crust and not too hard.
And the chicken is usually cooked perfectly. Personal taste and all that, I guess.
Furthermore, the staff is always polite, clean, well-groomed and diverse. I saw my first teen girl working at my local CFA wearing a headscarf, which surprised me, since it's known for having a somewhat Christian atmosphere. After thinking about it a moment, if I were a strict parent, I'd probaby think it's the safest fast food place, since most have very high standards regarding employment.
who looks like she came to work in the same clothes she fell asleep in the night before after she drank too much. 
Ugh
"If you've spent your teen years nurturing that brooding gangsta hip-hop persona and can't turn it off and show you can meet their guidelines during the interview--and that might include dealing with tattoos and hair that is obtrusive and might put off some customers--you don't get a front-of-house job."
And they definitely don't deserve one.
Learning to "be yourself" also means learning how to act like a grown up - which means doing a good job, being clean, neat, punctual, and POLITE to the customers, etc.
I can assure you no one at my local CFA has ever glared at me and said "Whatcha' want?" like I hear at some other local places.
"How may I serve you?"
"What would you like, ma'am?"
"Would you like to place an order?"
Nope, it's not difficult to say those words in a nice tone of voice.
