The Associated Press obituary of S. Truet Cathy doesn’t fail to remind us of the gay marriage clustercluck that his chain of Chick-fil-A restaurants incurred, thanks to homophobic statements by his son and chairman, Dan. But also, those chicken sandwich haters have nothing on his $6 billion-empire:
Cathy opened his first postwar diner in an Atlanta suburb in 1946 and by 1967 he had founded and opened his first Chick-fil-A Inc. restaurant in Atlanta. Over ensuing decades, the chain’s boneless chicken sandwich he is credited with inventing would propel Chick-fil-A expansion to more than 1,800 outlets in 39 states and the nation’s capital.By early 2013, the company says on its website, annual sales topped $5 billion as the chain offered up a taste of the South that went beyond chicken to such offerings as sweet tea, biscuits and gravy.
The New York Daily News notes how his Southern Baptist roots
[Washington Post, New York Daily News, Christian Post]
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