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Former 5 year employee here, has anyone ever commented on your scent? I had two friends that swore I had a unique scent they really loved (I was insecure about my odor since I lived in a smoking household, that's why it came up hah). So one of my friend's started dating someone, and he later started working at CFA, and she said he had the same smell! Apparently I was there so often the smell of peanut oil was ingrained in my pores. Just curious if anyone else had a similar experience haha.

Anyway, for any one else curious, favorite meal is a number 1 with no pickles and french fries on top with all of the honey roasted barbecue (it's essentially Chick fil a sauce without the mayonnaise as far as I can tell). My favorite secret is: during the summer I believe, we sold banana shakes. Cookies-n-creme and banana is so delicious. Omg.

I also have a slight lisp and had a weird amount of customers and friends who would ask me to repeat my pleasure. -_-

Probably my favorite experience was around the time that the owner's gay remarks came out, there was the pro-gay protest that was supposed to consist of a bunch of people coming in and making out in front of us or something (no one really showed up). But in response to that, other people organized a freedom of speech gathering on that Monday, and I wasn't even supposed to work that day but somehow ended up working from 7 am to close, and didn't get a break until 5 pm -_- (head set all day!). But the sheer amount of people who were kind to us that day was touching. One lady bought all of us on shift $15 gift cards at the register. Another person brought us all chocolate covered strawberries, someone brought in freez-e pops. Things like that. I'm reminded how every christmas you'd have a chain of people doing random acts of kindness and buying the meal for the car behind them. I saw up to 5 cars in a row do that :)

For the record, at that time we had about 3 openly gay employees, and our assistant GM was bi and had invited a bunch of managers (and the owner) to her wedding with another woman. What I mean is, the culture in our store was not anti-homosexual as far as I could see. At that time, it hadn't come out that Cathy had donated to conversion camps (although I still am a little uncertain about the details, like would a reasonable person know that the company he donated to was doing that stuff? I don't know). But as I worked in a store with openly gay people and knew there was no overt discrimination, I felt it was kind of unnecessary to boycott a business because the owner has disagreeable views.

Omg people used to always call it an accent for me too! I was about that age too, if I was the right gender I'd wonder if I knew you lol. I stopped working there before they came out with the frozen lemonade at my location (2008-2013), but maybe I'll try it. I love it because when I go home I go back to the store and the managers and the owner always still remember me. Working there through high school really set the tone for what I expect out of a work place. Fortunately for me, our store had a very close knit environment for the most part.