Brickbat: Getting Fried

New York lawmakers have introduced a bill that could require some Chick-fil-A restaurants to open on Sundays. The fast food chain famously is not open on Sunday. The bill would require any restaurants located in rest areas on state highways to be open seven days a week. While the law would apply to all such restaurants, backers are open about the fact it is aimed at Chick-fil-A. The bill would not apply to restaurants operating under current contracts with the state but would apply to any future contracts.

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[Adans smith]

We know what this is about, I cry foul.

[SQRLSY One]

I firmly require ALL of my chicks to be open to me on ALL Sundays and holidays! Else I leave them with egg on their faces!

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[Mickey Rat]

The person behind the bill is politically gay. The motivation for this bill is undoubtedly revenge for the sort of charities the owners have chosen to donate to (which is separate from the company) and anti-Christian bigotry.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Meh. I don't know the requirements of franchising in a rest stop, but I'm open to the idea of idiots stipulating you can't take up residence if you're not going to service the stupid Sunday drivers.

[Quicktown Brix]

I agree, but it should be in the contract, no bill/law required.

[Rossami]

Yup. This is a simple matter for contract. As a law, it's seems likely unconstitutional. It certainly opens the state up to expensive and pointless challenges.

[Moderation4ever]

I agree the contract is the place for the stipulation, not a law. I also suspect that this is one of the cases where some lone law maker has a idea and it gets everyone hackles up. What the real chance this law gets passed?

[A Thinking Mind]

Are prostitutes also required to work on Sundays?

[Chumby]

You can neither buy Chick-fil-A nor pay to fil-a-chick on Sundays.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Ha! These are rest stops, not truck stops. Rest stops are the ones where you don't want to use the men's rooms at night or you might run into Buttface 1/2.

[DRM]

The predictable result of adding more requirements to leases is a reduction in the amount the state can charge for the leases. If New York State legislators want to burn money on disapproving of Chick-fil-A, well, it's not the stupidest thing they've ever spent money on.

[Don't look at me!]

Funny, you can’t buy a car on Sunday.

[Dan S.]

If they don't want to be open Sundays, then don't bid on these contracts. Which I presume Chick-fil-A won't do if this law passes. It is not at all unreasonable for the State to want the restaurants at its service areas (which were recently rebuilt, and are distinct from "rest areas" on non-toll highways) to be open every day of the year. Frankly, I'm surprised it takes an act of the legislature to do this; I would have thought that the Thruway Authority could make the decision about such contractual provisions on its own.

[Davy C]

Either the legislature has micromanaged the contract provisions such that the Thruway Authority can't change them, or they *could* change them and the legislature is just mad that they haven't.

It is not at all unreasonable for the State to want the restaurants at its service areas (which were recently rebuilt, and are distinct from “rest areas” on non-toll highways) to be open every day of the year.

Even Christmas?

The question for me is: How busy are these places on Sunday? Will the other places at the service area (Chick-Fil-A is *never* the only one, according to the article) be overwhelmed if one place is closed on Sunday? If there's a problem then there's a reasonable justification. If not then they're unreasonably targeting this company.

[Agammamon]

Maybe the throughway authority already studied the situation and felt that there was no need to compel things to be open on Sunday?

Its not like people on the road in NY are ever that far from a restaurant anyway.

[Ben of Houston]

Here's the thing. These franchises were specifically targeted in 2021 by these same legislators explicitly because of the religious beliefs and actions of the Cathy family.

This is just a backdoor ban because their upfront actions were stopped by the courts because of their blatant disregard for the first amendment.

[Chumby]

From a few years ago, Dave Ramsey had reported that in the same general area, Chick-fil-A makes more money per square foot while not being open on Sunday than other fast food restaurants that are open seven days per week.

[Longtobefree]

In an unrelated story, Chick-fil-a notifies their rest area employees they will be out of work on the day the current lease expires.

[Agammamon]

Just open up with one employee, let the line build up - they'll get tired of waiting and go somewhere else.

The idea that a traveler in the NE *even needs rest stops*, given how densely populated the NE is, is insane.

FFS, even out here in the SW you're never more than 2 hours between cities, in southern NY you *never get out of the city*.

[markm23]

Is the Throughway a toll road? It is much more convenient to get a meal at a service plaza on the toll road than to pay a toll to get off the toll road, then deal with local traffic and the unknown local street grid to find a restaurant, and finally find your way back to the toll road and stop for a ticket to enter it. OTOH, you will save money by avoiding the service plazas; the gas stations, restaurants, and other concessionaires pay a high rate for that location, and make up for that with semi-monopoly pricing.

Usually there is no slacking off of inter-city traffic or the service plaza business on Sunday. More tourists are on the roads on weekends than weekdays, and the long distance truckers only stop for the weekend if they have to wait for Monday to deliver and pickup their loads. Commuter traffic is reduced, but commuters are only on the toll roads for a few minutes, if at all, and probably are getting their gas and meals at lower-cost places on the surface streets.

[Bill Godshall]

I drove 250 miles across the Pennsylvania Turnpike yesterday, and stopped at two rest stops (that both contained 4 or 5 food service providers), where most food service businesses were shut down.

But Starbucks, the convenience stores and the gas stations were open in both rest stops (as were the restrooms that I needed).

[Bill Godshall]

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[Chumby]

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[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Hate-Fil-A just donated $100K to a "rescue mission" in my locale which requires volunteers to sign an agreement not to "promote" homosexuality, bisexuality or "transgenderism". I've been boycotting them for years and the answer is to hurt them in their wallet by refusing to patronize them.

[Bill Falcon]

The Thruway authority knew Chick doesn't open on Sundays and signed a contract with them. Honestly the NYC Bolshevik legislature has better things to do like figure out why 100K people left NY State last year or how economic engines like Rochester have become a Ghetto. I recently moved to South Carolina from Central NY after growing up there and coming back for 19 years to raise my family. The place has completely collapsed due to the left wing "yentas" mostly from NYC pushing cultural Marxism. Pretty much my whole extended family has moved to Texas or the Carolinas. Rocky started the decline with his "liberal" come in and don't work welfare laws in the 60s and its gone down here from there.

[Chumby]

I’m sure they don’t give a rat’s ass if some woke rube chooses to not patronize them.

[mad.casual]

I don't know who wrote what, but this place is better with with their comment behind a gray box, I can only assume open or closed, Chick-fil-A, and virtually any other restaurant, is better without them loitering outside the women's restroom mumbling their nihilist pseudo-religious nonsense to themselves.