Every day is a stinkin’ day now. Let’s pick a date at random: May 12. According to NationalToday.com, May 12 is National Limerick Day and World Migratory Bird Day. How about August 4? National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, National Mustard Day, and U.S. Coast Guard Birthday. Today is International Day For Tolerance,…

Chick-fil-A, the extremely popular fast-food chain, creator of our favorite fast-food sauce, and slinger of cult-status waffle fries, now delivers nationwide. That means you, Takeout reader, could be lounging shirtless on your cat-hair-covered couch, digging into a Spicy Chicken Deluxe—with waffle fries,…

No, this Chick-fil-A trick won’t change your life, but as far as fast-food hacks go, it’s pretty solid. (It actually made me say “whoa” out loud at my screen.) Here’s how the “hack” works: Like other fast-food paper boxes, Chick-Fil-A’s nugget vessels have a small, round hole in them. Its true purpose, my instinct…

Maybe you’re like me: You read the headlines about some Pittsburgh city officials opposing Chick-fil-A as a sponsor for an upcoming kids’ marathon, and you assume it’s because Spicy Chicken Deluxe Combos aren’t exactly health food. But that’s not the reason Pittsburgh City Council and Pittsburgh Public Schools board…

Drive-thru is big business for fast-food restaurants, full stop. This year’s Drive-Thru Study from QSR Magazine finds that drive-thru sales make up about 70 percent of the average fast-food chain’s business, so it’s incredibly important that these chains keep you happy from the moment you shout into the ordering mic…

Stephen Bellissimo is having quite the week. Not only did the Florida resident celebrate turning 100 years old while wearing a jaunty, shiny hat, but he was gifted free Chick-fil-A food for life. Bellissimo—known as “Mr. Steve” to the workers at his local Tampa-area Chick-fil-A—has been visiting that location every…

Chick-Fil-A is famous for a few things: like extremely popular chicken sandwiches, and being closed on Sunday. According to the company website, founder S. Truett Cathy “saw the importance of closing on Sundays so that he and his employees could set aside one day to rest and worship if they choose—a practice we uphold…

The residents of Merritt Island, Florida, are facing an unusual choice. Come Wednesday, they may eat their fill of waffle fries and chicken sandwiches at the Chick-Fil-A located at 777 E. Merritt Island Causeway, Suite 164, or at the new Chick-Fil-A opening at 785 E. Merritt Island Causeway. Yes, those addresses are…

Have you ever visited a restaurant and said to yourself: “I like ready-to-eat food here, but how can I do more work?” Then this news may be of interest to you: Chick-Fil-A will be offering meal kits.

Imagine you’re Gracelyn Griffin, born Tuesday in San Antonio, 16 years into the future. She walks into a Chick-Fil-A with friends, they’re ordering fried chicken sandwiches and her pals reach for their wallets. Griffin holds up a hand and just says: “I got this.” Her friends shoot a puzzled look and ask: “How?”…

In college, a mentor sat me down for a chat. She told me if I wanted to make it as a theater director (those were the days), I only needed to know two things. First, I had to work harder than anyone else. And second, and more importantly, she said, “Never turn down free food.” I took that advice to heart. I love free…

There exists an annual report known as the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s Restaurant Report, in which survey proctors ask 22,500 Americans (!) about their experiences at various chain restaurants. Customers are asked to rate restaurants on a scale of 0 to 100 in categories such as food accuracy; waitstaff…

Determined as we are to find some feel-good stories to wrap up this hell week, we were happy to find this tale of a hometown hero at a Chick-Fil-A in Austin, Texas. When an elderly diner began choking in the restaurant, another customer quickly started giving him the Heimlich maneuver. When that failed to dislodge the…

Our president is sucking up to a murderous dictator; Florida recently had a devastating multi-fatality school shooting; and children are being ripped away from their parents at America’s border. So, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, you must have a lot of issues to juggle—what’s at the top of your agenda?

The low unemployment rate has not been the best news for fast-food owners. Historically, high-school kids have flipped burgers for an after-school or summer job while saving up for a used car or clothes at Forever 21. But now that those jobs are so plentiful, unskilled workers can apparently pick and choose; a recent …

Some people get really manic about their Chick-Fil-A, and as we’ve seen, some do not. But a survey of the company’s 10 most-purchased items, as featured on the Today show this week, is a bit puzzling. The branch’s beloved lemonade, for example, is all the way down at number six. Soda is number two, which sort of makes…

Maybe it was a case of overselling. After all, Chick-Fil-A fans are passionately rabid about their favorite fast-food sandwich, creating lines out the door to wait for a coveted space at the counter. So when Business Insider gathered up a bunch of millennials who hadn’t ever tasted Chick-Fil-A before for whatever…

It’s something I hadn’t even really thought about until this Business Insider video pointed it out: The vast majority of fast-food logos are red-based. The educational (yet under-four-minute) video also outlines that there are reasons for that that go back thousands of years.

Millennials, your day may be done. Lest we forget, there’s a whole new burgeoning generation for marketers to freak out over: Generation Z. So twice a year, CNBC offers Piper Jaffray’s Taking Stock With Teens study. The most recent version, which just came out this week, contains some surprising factoids about the…

A few years ago, Chick-fil-A was a p.r. manager’s nightmare, battling boycotts after its Christian COO Dan T. Cathy made statements in opposition to same-sex marriage. But today, Forbes and BuzzFeedNews point to a new Technomic report that says “Chick-fil-A could leapfrog Wendy’s, Burger King and Taco Bell by as early…