Chick-fil-A is opening two more locations in Toronto
Chick-fil-A, the controversial U.S. fast food giant that specializes in chicken sandwiches anddonating to anti-LGBTQ charitieshas just announced that it's opening two more locations in Toronto.
The chain's entrance into the Toronto marketat Bloor and Yongein late summer 2019 was met withmassive 'round-the-clock lineupsandprotestors calling for a boycottsimultaneously, which certainly made for an interestingly juxtaposed andabsolutely hecticscene.
People are protesting outside the opening of#Toronto's first Chick-fil-A location -@RonaldJayQpic.twitter.com/rmUTnAEo47
— blogTO (@blogTO)September 6, 2019
People continued to express their disgust with the brand's CEO'snotoriously homophobic beliefs and practices, animal cruelty, and how its patronswere making a mess of the citywhile otherscontinued to wait in long lines for its fried chickenwhen it opened a second location in the city in January 2020, this timein Yorkdale Mall.
Though some residents have made it abundantly clear thatthey don't want Chick-fil-A in Toronto, the high demand for its food has led the company to announce three new locations in Southern Ontario on Monday, two of them in Toronto proper.
There's a massive lineup at the new Chick-fil-A in Yorkdale mall#Toronto#Yorkdale#ChickfilApic.twitter.com/pKw6vgdp6f
— blogTO (@blogTO)January 7, 2020
The new restaurants will open in the Scarborough Town Centre's upper level food court, at 336 Queen St. W. ina new office buildingbeing built near Spadina, and at 200-225 Fairway Rd. in Kitchener later this year.
The company also revealed plans to open another 20 outposts in Canada by 2025.
In a news release, the business says it is "grateful for the positive response we continue to receive from our Canadian customers," failing to acknowledge any of the pushback it has received.
Fuck chick fil a til the day I die I’d rather starvehttps://t.co/1CFHZoFKdP
— dylan (@Rosario_609)July 27, 2020
There are no firm opening dates as of yet for Chick-fil-A's new Toronto spots, but we can likely expect that their opening days will be as chaotic and divisive as the others.
Fareen Karim
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