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<time class="caas-attr-meta-time caas-attr-seperator" datetime="2019-10-20T16:39:34.000Z" style="font-weight: 400; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.923em; color: grey;">October 20, 2019, 11:39 AM CDT</time>
Just days after Chick-fil-A’s first restaurant in the United Kingdom opened and amid protests by activists about the company’s opposition to same-sex marriage, the chain said on Saturday it will close the site in six months.
The Oracle, the shopping mall in Reading, England, where the restaurant leases space, told the BBC it would not allow Chick-fil-A to stay beyond its “initial six-month pilot period” and that it was the “right thing to do” after a call to boycott the chain by Reading Pride, a local lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender advocacy group.
<time class="caas-attr-meta-time caas-attr-seperator" datetime="2019-10-20T16:39:34.000Z" style="font-weight: 400; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.923em; color: grey;">October 20, 2019, 11:39 AM CDT</time>Just days after Chick-fil-A’s first restaurant in the United Kingdom opened and amid protests by activists about the company’s opposition to same-sex marriage, the chain said on Saturday it will close the site in six months.
The Oracle, the shopping mall in Reading, England, where the restaurant leases space, told the BBC it would not allow Chick-fil-A to stay beyond its “initial six-month pilot period” and that it was the “right thing to do” after a call to boycott the chain by Reading Pride, a local lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender advocacy group.
