Alabama Chick-fil-A location hands out free sandwiches to stuck motorists
Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes files this report about a Chick-fil-A in Alabama that decided to brave hazardous conditions to help out motorists stuck on the highway during yesterday’s snowstorm by giving them free chicken sandwiches:
Icy interstates and highways soon became clogged with cars and trucks. Thousands of motorists soon found themselves stranded with nowhere to go β including many stuck on Highway 280.
But a good number of those stranded motorists were able to find shelter in the storm thanks to the kindness and generosity of Chick-fil-A restaurant employees and the restaurant’s owner, Mark Meadows.
Once the snow started accumulating, Meadows closed the restaurant and sent his staff home. But a few hours later, many of them returned β unable to get to their homes.
βOur store is about a mile and a half from the interstate and it took me two hours to get there,β manager Audrey Pitt told me. βIt was a parking lot as far as I could see.β
So Audrey left her car on the side of the interstate and joined a flock of bundled up drivers trudging through the snow.
βAt one point there were more people walking than driving,β she said.
Some of the drivers had been stuck in their cars for nearly seven hours without any food or water. So the staff of the Chick-fil-A decided to lend a helping hand.
βWe cooked several hundred sandwiches and stood out on both sides of 280 and handed out the sandwiches to anyone we could get to β as long as we had food to give out.β
The staffers braved the falling snow and ice, slipping and sliding, as they offered hot juicy chicken breasts tucked between two buttered buns. And Chick-fil-A refused to take a single penny for their sandwiches.
The meal was a gift β no strings attached.
For the frozen drivers, it was manna from heaven.
βThey were very excited and extremely thankful,β she said. βPeople were thankful to get something to put in their stomachs.β
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But Chick-fil-Aβs generosity didnβt stop there.
βWe opened up our dining room to anyone who wanted to sleep on a bench or a booth,β Audrey told me.
And this morning, the weary staff members fired up their ovens and began preparing chicken biscuits. The only thing that is closed β is Chick-fil-Aβs cash register.βWeβre not open for business,β she said. βWeβre just feeding people who are hungry.β
What awful, hateful employees …