re: Smartest and Dumbest Fast Food Workers

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Their practice is slightly shady

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but it obviously makes for great employees.

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Who at least have the modicum of intelligence necessary to get your order right and to you in a timely manner...unlike most of the other aforementioned places.

Afreaux,

Please provide proof Chick-fil-a hires ONLY Jesus freaks.

Thanks.



They've always been closed on Sundays because the founder is Christian. It doesn't mean they hire only Jesus freaks. They hire HS kids and young college kids. Very few adults, and if there are adults they've always been older (55+). They just won't hire some trashy 25-50 year old who doesn't give a shite and just talks on the phone instead of getting your damn food.

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So you're telling me none of BKs, popeye's, or Jack in the Box's workers have ever robbed or sell/do drugs?

Get that shite outta here.

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you guys(not necessarily you) always tell Afeaux shite about making assumptions, but look at what you are doing how do you know if they have robbed, or sold drugs? do you go and ask for each of thier police records before you get your food

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Drop by the Siegen location today and ask the employees how often they go to church, or if they're a member of a Christian organization.

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None of my business. Just get me my chicken biscuit w/ cheese and small light roast coffee within 5 minutes of ordering, and that will be just fine.

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Think it's a coincidence that Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sundays?

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Truett Cathy, the founder, was a religious man. He didn't believe in making his employees work on Sundays. His business is extremely successful...imagine how much more so it would be if it WERE open on Sundays.

Money isn't everything to some people. It takes character to voluntarily surrender 1/7th of your income because of what you believe.

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you guys(not necessarily you) always tell Afeaux shite about making assumptions, but look at what you are doing how do you know if they have robbed, or sold drugs? do you go and ask for each of thier police records before you get your food

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Fair enough.


But, context clues. Context clues.

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That's not the only company mandate. Chick-fil-A's corporate mission, as stated on a plaque at company headquarters (and by Cathy), is to "glorify God." It is the only national fast-food chain that closes on Sunday so operators can go to church and spend time with their families; franchisees who don't go along with the rule risk having their contracts terminated. Company meetings and retreats include prayers, and the company encourages franchisees to market their restaurants through church groups. Howe Rice, a franchisee in Glen Allen, Va., hosts a Bible study group in one of his two Chick-fil-A restaurants every Tuesday. He offers a free breakfast to all who attend. "You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work," says Cathy.

They screen prospective operators for their loyalty, wholesome values and willingness to buy into Chick-fil-A's in-your-face Christian credo, espoused often by Cathy, an evangelical Southern Baptist who says "the Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift."

The parent company asks people who apply for an operator license to disclose marital status, number of dependents and involvement in "community, civic, social, church and/or professional organizations."

Is it legal? There are no federal laws that prohibit companies from asking nosy questions about religion and marital status during interviews. Most companies don't because it can open them up to discrimination claims, says James Ryan, a spokesman for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Chick-fil-A has more freedom to ask whatever it wants of franchisees because they are independent contractors and not necessarily subject to federal employment discrimination laws. (Employees, however, may sue under those laws.)

Chick-fil-A, the corporate parent, has been sued at least 12 times since 1988 on charges of employment discrimination, according to records in U.S. District Courts. Aziz Latif, a former Chick-fil-A restaurant manager in Houston, sued the company in 2002 after Latif, a Muslim, says he was fired a day after he didn't participate in a group prayer to Jesus Christ at a company training program in 2000. The suit was settled on undisclosed terms.

The company might face more suits if it didn't screen potential hires and operators so carefully. Many Chick-fil-A job candidates must endure a yearlong vetting process that includes dozens of interviews. Ty Yokum, the training manager for the chain, sat through 7 interviews and didn't get the job. He reapplied in 1991 and was subjected to another 17 interviews--the final one lasted five hours--and was hired. Bureon Ledbetter, Chick-fil-A's general counsel, says the company works hard to select people like Yokum, who "fit." "We want operators who support the values here," Ledbetter says.

Those who do say they like the member-of-the-club feel that goes along with working with Chick-fil-A. "It is very difficult to get in, but once you're in, you're in for life," says Donald Elam, a Chick-fil-A franchisee in Superstition Springs, Ariz.: "I tell all my people, 'I'm not working for Chick-fil-A; I'm working for the Lord.'"

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Forbes.com - "The Cult of Chick-fil-A"

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we want employees to base their business decisions on biblical principles

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Restaurant.org

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Chick-fil-A, the corporate parent, has been sued at least 12 times since 1988 on charges of employment discrimination, according to records in U.S. District Courts. Aziz Latif, a former Chick-fil-A restaurant manager in Houston, sued the company in 2002 after Latif, a Muslim, says he was fired a day after he didn't participate in a group prayer to Jesus Christ at a company training program in 2000. The suit was settled on undisclosed terms. The company might face more suits if it didn't screen potential hires and operators so carefully. Many Chick-fil-A job candidates must endure a yearlong vetting process that includes dozens of interviews. Ty Yokum, the training manager for the chain, sat through 7 interviews and didn't get the job. He reapplied in 1991 and was subjected to another 17 interviews--the final one lasted five hours--and was hired. Bureon Ledbetter, Chick-fil-A's general counsel, says the company works hard to select people like Yokum, who "fit." "We want operators who support the values here," Ledbetter says.

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last time i checked, my head isn't going to explode if someone holds a group prayer at a company retreat...

as long as they aren't asking me to join their church and/or do things i don't want to do, i'd be fine with it.

it makes for very polite employees.

Popeyes is the worstest. I don't even go there anymore cause I don't want to have a 4 minute conversation with a retard who will inevitably frick up my order.

at least when you go somewhere like mc d's, bk, or jack in the box, you halfway know to expect crap...

subway is definitely on my shite list. when you say "everything but banana peppers and jalapenos" how can you possibly mix that up?

who says "everything AND something else"