{"id":12067,"date":"2022-04-23T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12067"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:11:48","slug":"chik-fil-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/04\/23\/chik-fil-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Chik-Fil-Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chick-fil-A\u2019s Crazy Long Drive-Through Lines Have Santa Barbara Residents Squawking<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Backed-up traffic for chicken sandwiches plucks a nerve; \u2018It\u2019s almost like we\u2019re in L.A. now\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0<\/em>Christine Mai-Duc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cars lined up on the street to enter the Chick-fil-A drive-through in Santa Barbara in November.
PHOTO:\u00a0LARRY BICKFORD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.\u2014Business has boomed for Chick-fil-A<\/a> franchisee Travis Collins during the pandemic, thanks to surging appetite for chicken sandwiches from his drive-through window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he\u2019s throwing the works at controlling the lines of cars spilling onto surrounding streets. The city council in this affluent coastal city has proposed declaring his drive-through a public nuisance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neighbors and city officials say customers hungry enough to brave the crowded lot for Chick-n-Strips or the signature sandwich of chicken with pickles on a buttered bun have caused so many traffic jams, bus delays and hazards on the city\u2019s main drag that something must be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s against the law, they know it\u2019s against the law, but their chicken burgers are more important to them,\u201d said nearby resident Rick Closson. The retired pharmacist once spent a week outside the Chick-fil-A counting the line of cars at 15-minute intervals and informing drivers who were blocking sidewalk space that they were breaking the law. Drivers mostly blew him off, he said, and kept their eyes trained on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Wall Street Journal Chick-fil-A\u2019s Crazy Long Drive-Through Lines Have Santa Barbara Residents Squawking Backed-up traffic for chicken sandwiches plucks a nerve; \u2018It\u2019s almost like we\u2019re in L.A. now\u2019 By\u00a0Christine Mai-Duc SANTA BARBARA, Calif.\u2014Business has boomed for Chick-fil-A franchisee Travis Collins during the pandemic, thanks to surging appetite for chicken sandwiches from his drive-through window. Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}