Chick-fil-A Hollywood Opening: People Already in Line

By Elina Shatkin Wed., Sep. 21 2011 at 4:37 PM

Courtesy of Chick-fil-A

People waiting in line outside Chick-fil-A Hollywood on the afternoon of Sept. 21, 2011.

The Chick-fil-A frenzy is in full swing. Early this morning, 200 people were already waiting when the line officially opened for tomorrow's Chick-fil-A Hollywood debut.

Tomorrow at 6 a.m. the deep-fried Southern fast food chain known for its chicken sandwiches and its traditional Christian values (read: opposition to gay marriage) opens at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue. It's only the second Chick-fil-A outpost in LA city limits. (The other is near USC.) The first 100 adults through the doors receive free Chick-fil-A for a year.

This afternoon's line-waiters took part in a raffle, in which 100 people as well as 10 alternates were selected to wait out the night for the highly coveted "First 100" prize. Winners receive one chicken sandwich, one order of waffle fries and one drink (equating to 52 meals) every week for a year.

Equipped with mattresses, tents, chairs, tables, umbrellas and computers, the Chick-fil-A faithful have settled in for a long night. The restaurant is providing security, restrooms, a DJ, ice cream sundaes and free chicken sandwiches to help while away the hours.

For those who don't want to wait on the Hollywood pavement for a chicken sandwich, the restaurant opens tomorrow at 6 a.m. -- with protests by gay activists expected.

[@elinashatkin / eshatkin@laweekly.com]

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6750 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

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Life Is Good

You all are idiots. "choke on chicken" Get a life! To each his own ... you want others to accept yourself ... well learn to accept others also.

Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet

I do not like this Green Eggs and Chick-Fil-AM.

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Morgan3993

Can the homophobes behind this operation please learn to spell "filet"?

Life Is Good

You are a dumb ass. Its the name of the restaurant ... not a spelling bee. They aren't homophobes either. As I said, you are a dumb ass.

citizenrobot

It's sad to me how EXCITED everyone is when this company has been proven to be OPENLY GAY RIGHTS. Chick Fil A, anti-gay. See how it even rhymes?

Number two: http://advocacy.britannica.com...

Number 3: AW COME ON PEOPLE, AT LEAST EAT BETTER FOOD

Joe T. Garcia

"May they choke on chicken."

By "they" do you mean: (1) the idiots waiting in line overnight to get a few hundred bucks worth of free fast food, which they will eventually have to eat -- I don't know if they thought that far ahead; (2) the Chick-fil-A owners, meaning you're intolerant of people who are different from you; or (3) the good ole' LA Weekly itself, which, as we constantly see, can't endure people who are different, even on the food pages?

It's one thing to voice disagreement, quite another to hope the object of your intolerance goes out of business, the apparent goal of the Weekly's constant reminders of how different the Chick-fil-A owners are from us hip Angelenos, or chokes. BTW, the next time you seen a poll on gay marriage, check the demographic breakdown for two of our large minority populations -- African Americans and Latinos -- to see who else agrees with Chick-fil-A.

Or did you mean, "May they choke the chicken"?

anncoultersadamsapple

Sorry, dude, but when it comes to intolerance, you can't hide behind polls...

(I like how the new tactic of the intolerant is to accuse people who call out their biases as being the intolerant ones. Nice. Whatever helps ya sleep...)

Itstrue

Eh, "people who call out their biases" are the worst haters anywhere. Your attitude AND posting name are just another example of that. No hate like liberal hate.