Chick-fil-A

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• 2026-02-15 [L..T] ‘We Don’t Take Food Stamp’: Black Manager Says Something Was Very Wrong Inside Philadelphia Chick-fil-A and Speaking Up Got Her Fired «In her federal civil rights lawsuit filed on Jan. 29 (and obtained by Atlanta Black Star), Tiffany Lynch, 38, claims that Joshua Grimm, owner/operator and president of the Chick-fil-A franchise in Wayne, Pennsylvania, created a hostile work environment by making discriminatory jokes and comments and treated Black employees and job applicants differently than their white counterparts. [..] When she objected to the discrimination, Lynch says, she was fired in retaliation.»
• 2025-10-15 [L..T] ‘Fake Apology!’: Chick-fil-A Sparks Outrage After Black Officer Was Forced to Pay While White Partners Ate Free — Then Came the Excuse No One’s Buying «A Black police officer said his visit to his local Chick-fil-A left him feeling embarrassed and humiliated after his three white colleagues were all given free breakfast while he was left to pay for his meal. [..] Tracey Reid, a police officer in Clover, South Carolina, said he and his partners were all in uniform when they went to get breakfast at a Chick-fil-A in Augusta, Georgia, a few weeks ago during a work trip. [..] Reid said it’s normal for restaurant chains to offer police officers and other first responders complimentary meals as a gesture of appreciation for their service. [..] However, while they were in line, the staff members only offered free meals to Reid’s three white partners, but Reid had to pay for his food at the register. [..] “We came in together, same uniform, stood in line, there was never a time we were not together while standing in line,” Reid’s colleague, Clover Police Sgt. J. Gordon, told WSOC-TV.»
• 2025-05-26 [L..T] ‘Shut Up, Ape, Before I Put You In a Cage!’: Black Chick-fil-A Worker In Idaho Filed 30 Complaints But Was Forced to Endure the Racist Abuse Because Harassers ‘Couldn’t Be Fired,’ Lawsuit Claims «A Black man who worked as a cook at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Idaho filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit claiming his co-workers subjected him to relentless racial harassment, including calling him an “ape” and “ni—er” and comparing him to a slave. [..] According to his complaint obtained by Atlanta Black Star, shortly after Thomas Wade started working as a cook at the Chick-Fil-A franchise in Ammon, a suburb of Idaho Falls, in December 2022, he applied for the company’s leadership development program but was passed over for a white male employee.» ... «In March of 2023, Wade says he “intervened” when Isaiah Ibarra, Eric’s son, and another employee were antagonizing a third co-worker. [..] “Shut up, ape, before I put you in a cage,” Isaiah Ibarra allegedly said to Wade. [..] When Wade said he would report the conduct to management, Isaiah allegedly called him a “monkey-looking ass” and warned him that “my parents own this store.”»
• 2012-07-16 [L..T] Chick-fil-A's flippant response to years of LGBT controversy: 'Guilty as charged' Chick-fil-A COO Dan Cathy defends the company's anti-gay activities on Biblical grounds.