The Cathy family is known for establishing the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant empire based in Atlanta.
While other bowls may include complimentary tickets in their donation calculation, the Chick-Fil-A Bowl does not.
It will make matters much worse, as Chick-fil-A is seeing now, Santorum and Hucakbee notwithstanding.
One official said the suspect was carrying Chick-fil-A-related items at the time of the shooting.
McGehee said she hopes someone will protest at each of the more than 1, 600 Chick-fil-A locations.
Chick-fil-A said it set a sales record Wednesday but declined to release the numbers.
In Los Angeles, same-sex marriage supporters Luke Montgomery and Eduardo Cisneros kissed outside a Chick-fil-A restaurant.
The accompanying Wall Street Journal map shows Chick-fil-A's store locations charted against public sentiment toward gay marriage.
Asked what evidence he had linking the center to the shooting, Perkins referred to the Chick-fil-A matter.
Inside the backpack, police found 50 rounds of 9mm ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, the complaint says.
"Students on college campuses have been concerned with the giving practices of Chick-fil-A for years, " Windmeyer said.
Chick-fil-A Bowl president and CEO Gary Stokan sent an open invitation to DragonCon attendees for exactly that reason.
By essentially refusing to address the issues its founder raised, Chick-Fil-A just made a lot of people madder.
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Marci Alt said she would like Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy to meet her wife and their two children.
Perhaps the biggest impact made by the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, however, is its involvement in the Play It Smart program.
Fast food chain Chick-fil-A, under fire in July for its financial support of anti-gay groups, stopped making those donations.
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Truett Cathy opened his first Chick-fil-A outlet in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall in 1967.
The number of ACC and SEC alumni living in Atlanta has provided a collateral benefit to the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
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The most error-free chain was Chick-fil-A, with fewer than 3 percent order mistakes.
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Throngs of people heeded his call, snaking around various Chick-fil-A restaurants nationwide Wednesday.
In contrast, Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno went further, saying he would work to block any Chick-fil-A in his ward.
In recent months, Chick-fil-A has become an unexpected totem for the religious right with its vocal position against gay marriage.
Plus, if you start boycotting Chick-fil-A because you disagree with the COO's views, how far will you take your principles?
"All Chick-fil-A did was refuse to be bullied by the politically correct crowd, " said Mr. Perkins in a radio commentary.
In making charitable giving a cornerstone of its bowl game, the Chick-fil-A Bowl hopes to sow further seeds of giving.
Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was proposed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in an effort to show support for the company's viewpoint.
Heather Roberts of Sugar Land, Texas, made a point of patronizing at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday while visiting Atlanta for a conference.
Some Christian leaders are urging their followers to "affirm a business that operates on Christian principles" by eating Chick-fil-A's delicious sarnies.
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The Family Research Council's president, Tony Perkins, recently defended the chief executive of restaurant chain Chick-fil-A, who had criticized gay marriage.
Over the years of its partnerships with the conferences, the Chick-fil-A Bowl has worked to receive higher seeds from each conference.
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