Where is their "authority" to tell a business they can't open a store in their city?
Where is the diversity, the tolerance that liberals, and the LGBT call for?
I've seen nowhere where this company has discriminated against anyone.

It is usually the people crying for tolerance that are the least tolerant of others..

Just because someone is tolerant, it doesn't mean they're tolerant of everything.

Selective tolerance?

they dont have the authority, thats why it wont stand,,,

Here is an article by Don Cathy a man of ethics!



Make the Second Mile Second Nature

By Dan Cathy 5/14/2009 4:00:40 PM

I grew up in a Beaver Cleaver world, where every night Ward and June sat at the dinner table with Wally and the Beav. June always wore her sweater and pearls, and Ward never thumbed his BlackBerry or glazed over from watching Fox News or CNN. Wally and Beaver never texted Eddie Haskell or Lumpy Rutherford from the dinner table, and they never fought over the Wii remote.

In our world the dinner table became a theater where Mom and Dad taught my siblings and me etiquette and civility. That scenario was multiplied a million times over, all across America. My parents’ generation taught us honor, dignity, and respect for each other and our neighbors.

Today’s youth would tell you that was “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” Instead of growing up with Wally and Beaver, they had Beavis and Butt-Head or Bart Simpson for role models. For many young people, both parents are busy working, and two nights out of three, dinner is takeout in front of the television. Every day 60,000 of those young people show up as employees at our 1,425 Chick-fil-A® restaurants from coast to coast, serving more than a million customers. And every day we receive letters, calls, and e-mails from customers raving about their polite encounters with Chick-fil-A restaurant team members. What’s up with that?

It starts with my dad, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, who set the standard in 1946 when he opened the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia. All my life I watched him treat his customers and staff with honor, dignity, and respect. Nothing cut deeper into Dad’s heart than the possibility of losing a single customer.

Much more recently, Dad started a quiet revolution throughout Chick-fil-A with two little words: My pleasure. Dad had visited a Ritz-Carlton hotel, and when he said, “Thank you,” the man behind the counter smiled genuinely and responded, “My pleasure.”

Dad liked the sound of that more than the usual “You’re welcome,” or worse, “No problem.” “My pleasure” indicated a sincere desire to serve. We asked everyone working in Chick-fil-A restaurants to say, “My pleasure,” whenever a customer thanked them.

About the same time, some of our restaurant operators began putting fresh flowers on the dining room tables. One operator even brought in a tall pepper grinder and went from table to table asking if customers wanted fresh pepper on their salads. All of these things seemed to exceed the ordinary quick-service dining experience, and our customers let us know they appreciated them.

That very big little breakthrough was a lesson from above. We were just beginning to understand the business impact of Jesus’ admonition in the Sermon on the Mount: “If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles” (Matthew 5:41).

In biblical times, a Roman soldier could compel someone to carry his pack for one mile, or 1,000 paces (two steps per pace). Jesus told his listeners to stop grudgingly counting their steps and instead to carry the pack a second mile. Reading this in the context of Christ’s earlier statement in the Sermon—“Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven”—we realized that offering “second mile service” to our customers actually glorified God!

Not only that, we soon learned at Chick-fil-A that second-mile service generated a profit—at a higher margin than a chicken sandwich—by building brand loyalty. We get a lot of help selling from the Chick-fil-A Cows encouraging people to “Eat Mor Chikin,” but that’s nothing compared to the power of a customer telling somebody about an over-the-top experience at our restaurant.

Second-mile service becomes a topic of conversation among our customers because, in my observation, it is so scarce. We experience so little honor, dignity, and respect in our world, people are willing to pay handsomely to experience it. When we treat people the way God intended for them to be treated, it’s like fresh, cool water on the parched earth, providing sustenance to flowers just waiting to blossom. It happens in a millisecond, and it doesn’t cost us anything to treat people the way God wants us to treat them.

Photo: John Loomis

So how do we convince 60,000 young people to go beyond the expected requirements and make second-mile service second nature?

Turns out it’s easier than we anticipated. Teenagers understand it in their hearts when they experience that instant, five-second interaction. They carry a meal to the dining room for a customer, then slide a chair out as they place the tray on the table. They look the customer in the eye and are greeted with a broad smile, or maybe an expression of shock. At that moment, they realize just how powerful small acts of courtesy and kindness can be.

They’ve just gone the second mile, done the unexpected, and it feels good. And in fact, we’ve found those young people looking for opportunities to experience that feeling and sense of satisfaction again and again.

God wired all of us to serve this way, no matter what business or walk of life we’re in. God built us in such a way that it’s very difficult to experience fulfillment or the abundant life until we lose our sense of self-consciousness and develop a sense of others-consciousness—and learn the skills to make it happen.

We like to think Chick-fil-A has become the country’s largest school of etiquette, teaching the skills we have learned from four- and five-star restaurants and resorts. We visit these places, ask questions, and study their good habits, then bring those habits into our work environment. In the early days of our business, we asked our lowest-paid, least-senior, least-trained team members to walk around the dining room, spraying down tables and wiping them off with a cloth from their back pockets. Well, you never see that at a fine restaurant. They keep their restaurants clean, but not with a spray bottle and a rag. Instead, they discretely pass through the dining room looking for anything out of place and take care of it without drawing attention to themselves.

Today we place our highest-paid, most-senior people in the dining room to interact with our customers and make sure the room and the tables are clean. If they see a straw wrapper or a drink dome on a table beside a customer, they remove it without interrupting or drawing attention to themselves. Every time they touch that table, they send a subliminal message to the customer: “We care about you. You’re somebody special.” The customer looks up and smiles, and that teenager has his reward.

And that’s a picture of how Christians should live in the world and relate to their neighbors. When Christians stop counting their steps and start looking for opportunities to go the second mile, they form relationships with others built on honor, dignity, and respect. Through those encounters Christ transforms us and fulfills the promise of Proverbs 11:25: “He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.”

Dan Cathy is president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, Inc.





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For example, I am pretty tolerant, but I don't have to have tolerance for bigotry against me because I'm Jewish. No one has to be tolerant of everything.