Eating at chick-fil-a leaves a bad taste in my mouth!

[jmowreader]

48. There are three reasons I don't eat at Chick-fil-A

1. To get to the one store they have in my area I have to pass many far better restaurants. I don't know if you're familiar with Spokane, WA, but the only CFA up here is in what they call the Division Street Y. In the entire time I've been back in the Northwest - I returned in 2010 - I've been into the Division Street Y one time, when I needed five of a specific light switch cover plate for my home renovation and the Home Depot up there was the only store in the area that had any left.

2. Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. This is where the Atlanta Falcons play. It is, like almost every other Chick-fil-A in the world, closed on Sunday...which is the day pro football is played in the United States. Exactly why does a football stadium need a restaurant that isn't open for football games?

3. Their franchise agreement. For $10,000 you get to buy a job that requires you to be in the restaurant every second the restaurant is open. Chick-fil-A owns your building, your inventory, dictates your menu and your hours, and don't even think about "going rogue" and opening your restaurant on Sunday because they lock your point-of-sale system that day.

You know what the worst part of the "closed on Sunday" thing is? Think about what Christians do after church on Sunday. (No, not "go buy a six-pack and rush home to see the NASCAR race.&quot They go out to eat, right? And because of CFA's strong Christian heritage, you'd have churchgoers just packing the place. They could easily set up a "10 percent off if you bring in your church bulletin" promotion and find lots of people who see that company as a ministry to work that day...but they refuse to do it. If I ever get really freakin' rich I have a very Christian friend who knows business and I'm going to set her up with a Christian Bookstore that's open on Sundays. None of them are, and it seems to me that Sunday, the day Christians are most fervent about their faith, would be a great day to sell Bibles. But no...if you need a Bible on Sunday you've gotta go to the heathens at Walmart and Barnes & Noble to buy it. Open that place up at 7 am before the churches open, staff it with people who love Jesus and see selling Christian stuff as a ministry, and you can't help but do well.