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Oops! Chick-fil-A Drama Deals Blow to Chick-Felays

Canadian customers blast small Toronto-area chain

By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 9, 2012 9:55 AM CDT | Updated Aug 12, 2012 11:58 AM CDT

(Newser) – The battle over Chick-fil-A and its president's thoughts on gay marriage has created an unwitting victim: Canada's Chick-Felays. The teeny Toronto-area chain has just four outposts, and definitely isn't serving up spicy chicken sandwiches and peach milkshakes—it combines Portuguese-style chicken with North African spices. But it's been the target of upset customers all the same, reports the Wall Street Journal.

"The servers were like, 'What’s going on?'" says Chick-Felays' founder. "I didn't have any idea what they were talking about. I was selling chicken." And some customers were ordering chicken ... then refusing to pay, and lambasting the "discriminatory" company. A customer finally clued the founder in, though he remains a little confused. "How can they mistake us, when it’s a completely different logo, different colors, different menu, different name?"

Traffic clogs the parking lot at Chick-fil-A in Kinston, N.C., on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. Chick-fil-A supporters are eating at the chicken chain's restaurants as the company continues to be criticized for an executive taking a public position against same-sex marriage. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister,...
Traffic clogs the parking lot at Chick-fil-A in Kinston, N.C., on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. Chick-fil-A supporters are eating at the chicken chain's restaurants as the company continues to be criticized...   (AP Photo/The Free Press, Zach Frailey)
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COMMENTS
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Fatquah
Aug 12, 2012 8:21 PM CDT
Clueless like most Liberals
miamisun
Aug 12, 2012 7:26 PM CDT
First gays wanted acceptance and they got it, now if you don't like their choices they attack you. Only in America is the minority the majority
right2dave
Aug 12, 2012 6:43 PM CDT
Canadian goose burgers...ummm.
 

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