Chick-fil-A after assuring a black Twitter user that his “community” will be the first to know when a new menu item is supplied, has come under fire for being racist.
On September 9, the fast-food restaurant responded to a fan who asked when the chain will start serving spicily spiced chicken nuggets.
If spicy goods are added to the permanent menu, your community will be the first to know, Don! wrote Chick-fil-A.
Users immediately began accusing the chain of being racist and inquiring as to if it was referring to the black community in a barrage of tweets.
One reply reads, “What do you mean, ‘your community’????.”
“Your neighborhood?” says another Tweet. I’m going to require an explanation for that statement since “Our” community wouldn’t want others to assume it had racist overtones.
A spokeswoman addressed the outrage on social media in a message to NBC News.
The statement read, “The reaction was a poor choice of words but was in no way intended to be inappropriate or insulting.”
We commonly use the term “community” in a broader sense when referring to places where we operate restaurants and provide local residents services.
Some Twitter users praised the fast-food chain’s remark in response to other messages criticizing it.
One person commented, “All joking aside, they reply like this regularly,” before attaching a screenshot of another tweet from Chick-fil-A that used the same sentence.
The message reads: “Hello there! Since we are aware that our clients enjoy spice, we are trying hot foods in several marketplaces. If spicy goods are added to our regular menu, we’ll be sure to let your community know!
The chain has recently been the target of boycotts in reaction to the business’s prior funding to anti-LGBTQ organizations.