The fast-food chain Chick-fil-A expects to open its new Westwood location on June 27, according to the restaurant’s website.
The restaurant will be located on the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Le Conte Avenue in a building owned by UCLA.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the previous owners of the Westwood Plaza building where Burger King was formerly housed, signed the lease with Chick-fil-A. In June, UCLA completed the purchase of the 10-story office building for $72 million and inherited the lease, said Steve Ritea, a UCLA spokesman, in July.
Plans for the chain’s opening garnered mixed reactions from the UCLA community, after its president said in interviews that he was in support of “traditional families,” which its owners believe is based on a marriage between a man and a woman.
The restaurant plans to have a “First 100 Event” during its grand opening, in which the first 100 customers will receive one free Chick-fil-A meal per week for a year, according to their website. The date for the event is still tentative.
Compiled by Chandini Soni, Bruin contributor.
Absolutely shameful. This horrible corporation is not welcome in our progressive community.
Seriously stop acting all butt hurt (no pun intended) about this. If you don’t like their food or what the owner of the entire company believes, then don’t eat there. It’s one thing to oppose the CEO but it is another to use that opposition to protest the opening of a new Chick-fil-A location
Actually, those two things are very intertwined. The values that the Chick-Fil-A CEO holds will directly relate to what lobbying groups/activist groups he donates money to. That means your chicken sandwich funds anti-gay activism and the conservative politics that contributes to the hate against the LGBT community in our nation. You may choose to use your money wherever you want, but there is no excuse to support a business that actively marginalizes your LGBT peers, friends, and family. If you consider yourself an Ally to the LGBT community you would not support this business either.
I’ve been judged a lot by people recently. Those people don’t know, they just don’t understand how it feels to be ashamed of doing something you love. They don’t understand what it feels like to be ridiculed by society for doing what comes natural to you.
I didn’t choose to like chick-fil-a. I was born this way, born enjoying delicious chicken sandwiches. People can continue to look at me weirdly, but I’m just going to keep doing what makes me happy.
What I’m trying to say here is, if you want to eat at chick-fil-a, it get’s better.