Will Chick Fil A ever come to Flint?

I wrote yesterday about the kindness of the people in the Twin Cities.

While there, we were also able to eat at Chick Fil A. If you’ve ever eaten there, you know well that they, likewise, are incredibly nice to their customers. The saying you hear time and again is, “It’s my pleasure.” So with the Minneapolis nice added together with the Chick Fil A nice, my head was about to explode in a gooey aftermath of cotton candy and lollipops.

I have been looking forward to, for some time, the appearance of Chick Fil A in Michigan. Their product is available at a local college, but it pales in comparison to the real brick and mortar experience. I have discussed the possibility with managers of Ohio locations and have been told of the stringent guidelines the company uses to determine the location of stores.

This makes me fearful that Flint may never see the restaurant’s arrival. You see, many among us have a mentality that we are the gift to the companies that choose to set up shop here. I cannot tell you the number of times I have heard someone say that the people of our city built General Motors. I have to admit, they also helped run them out of town.

When an employee looks at the opportunity given them with ingratitude and entitlement, they will soon lose the opportunity. In some cases, when a community develops an attitude of us against you, the opportunity may never come.

If Chick Fil A came to Flint, I imagine the employees would be saying to the customers, “The pleasure was all yours.”