Chick Fil A

I like their nuggents and my grandchildren love them. I would much rather take them there than to a burger place.

John

Their Ice Tea is some of the best anywhere and we all like the chicken strips. For B'fast I like the strip, egg and cheese on a biscuit.

MikeS.

They're grilled chicken salad is the best in FF IMO, and about as healthy as FF is going to get.

So far, Chick-Fil-A has been a roadtrip place for us. But not for long....
The recently departed Krispy Kreme in San Marcos, CA is being transformed into Chick-Fil-A.

I've never had a bad meal at Chick-Fil-A. It kept us fed during the eight days we were without power after Hurricane Isabel.

Don't care that much for their sandwhich as the meat is too thick and sometimes doesn't look like it was cooked all the way through. So now I settle for the chicken strips and dip them in their Polynesian sausce and honey mustard. I agree that their tea is the best. I have only found one other place in Huntsville, Al, that makes tea as good and that is David Gibson's Barbeque.

I like Chick-Fil-A all right (don't love it), but I will say that the service and cleanliness is top-notch. I do have one major complaint, though...you can't get the food on a tray! Doesn't matter whether you're eating at the restaurant -- which I would prefer to do -- you always get the food in a bag, which makes for an unnecessarily messy lunch. I went there to spend some time studying the other day, and it was such a pain trying to put ketchup on my fries, and dress up my sandwich with no plate or tray. Seems kind of silly to me. I've even asked for a tray, but my request was met with a blank look. So I no longer go there to eat. From a food standpoint, that's no great loss, but it is a pleasant atmosphere inside...oh well!

I have three things I love about CFA
1) The chicken sandwich is very good.
2) They'll give me as many extra pickles as I ask for.
3) They close on Sundays.

Wish they had packets of Horsey Sauce from Arbys however.

Posted this in the Chicken thread, http://www.hi-tm.com/Documents/Bloody-chik.html.

John

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Originally posted by joanie41

I like Chick-Fil-A all right (don't love it), but I will say that the service and cleanliness is top-notch. I do have one major complaint, though...you can't get the food on a tray! Doesn't matter whether you're eating at the restaurant -- which I would prefer to do -- you always get the food in a bag, which makes for an unnecessarily messy lunch. I went there to spend some time studying the other day, and it was such a pain trying to put ketchup on my fries, and dress up my sandwich with no plate or tray. Seems kind of silly to me. I've even asked for a tray, but my request was met with a blank look. So I no longer go there to eat. From a food standpoint, that's no great loss, but it is a pleasant atmosphere inside...oh well!

Local Chick Fil A always puts it in a bag but they do place the bag on a tray???

John

If I were you folks, I would not prefer food on a tray. Those things are nasty and they are not sterilized inbetween use. I have watched them several times and they simply take them back, about half way wipe them off and off they go.

I am not sure that bags are much cleaner but at least they have not had thousands of finger prints, droppings and other things spilt on them.

I have noticed something that Walmart and other folks are doing now is to privide sanitary wipes for your convenience for carts and other things. Great idea.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

I understand that the tray isn't clean, and I don't put my food directly on it. But when I'm trying to season my food, add sauces, etc, it's cumbersome to do it without having anything to rest my sandwich on, and invariably, stuff spills all over the table. When I go to other fast food places, I put napkins on the tray, or just use the wrapper, and everything is contained in one area. I just find it less messy.

The bottom line is that I find Chick-Fil-A pretty underwhelming from a food standpoint, but I do like the atmosphere inside. Maybe next time I go, I'll bring a paper plate!

You could open the bag and use it as a plate.

We don't have Chick Fil A here. Just @ the mall in Racine. I love their carrot raisin salad.

I may bhave to stop for b'fast in about 4 hours.

MikeS.

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

If I were you folks, I would not prefer food on a tray. Those things are nasty and they are not sterilized inbetween use. I have watched them several times and they simply take them back, about half way wipe them off and off they go.

I am not sure that bags are much cleaner but at least they have not had thousands of finger prints, droppings and other things spilt on them.

I have noticed something that Walmart and other folks are doing now is to privide sanitary wipes for your convenience for carts and other things. Great idea.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Don't they put those paper things on the trays that I can never get off into the trash?

John