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The Story of How Chick-fil-A Borrowed “My Pleasure” from a Luxury Hotel

Our American Stories / Lee Habeeb
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July 10, 2024 3:02 am

The Story of How Chick-fil-A Borrowed “My Pleasure” from a Luxury Hotel

Our American Stories / Lee Habeeb

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July 10, 2024 3:02 am

On this episode of Our American Stories, the origins of Chick-fil-A’s “my pleasure” catchphrase began in 2001. Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy’s version of the story begins with him visiting a Ritz-Carlton luxury hotel—a hotel his friend Horst Schulze co-founded. Here's Horst with the story.

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It doesn't take long before he makes a name for himself. So in this battle, they're outside a walled city. And at that time, their guns were called matchlock muskets and the matchlock musket always had a small fuse that stayed lit. So at dark, you could see a little glowing ember. So John went to the leader of the regiment and said, I have this idea. How about after dark, we light a bunch of tiny matches.

And that way, when our enemy looks over the wall, they will see thousands of tiny glowing embers and think that each one represents a gun and that they are completely outnumbered. So it worked perfectly just like John said, their enemy looked out, thought they were completely outnumbered and panicked and they were easily overtaken. And John was given credit for that victory and he was promoted to captain. And he was very proud of that title and he went by Captain John Smith for the rest of his life. Later, it's the spring of 1602 and John's 22 years old and they again are outside a walled city preparing to attack when the leader inside the walled city issues a challenge to any English officer. Well, all of the English officers want to be chosen, so they draw lots and John was chosen. And he's very excited because it's a jousting match and he of course has trained well with theater or paleo log and he knows that the weakest part on a suit of armor is the visor. And John describes in his journals what almost sounds like a scene out of a movie because he describes how his opponent came out. So there's John sitting atop his horse. He has his one squire holding his lance and here comes his opponent and as he appears in this bejeweled suit of armor which actually has like a set of wings on it for decoration, he has multiple attendants. The horns glare as he comes out of the crowd and everyone cheers and it couldn't be more opposite than John sitting atop his horse with his squire next to him. Well, as they begin to ride toward each other at the last moment John lifts his lance and slams into the man's visor and kills him. The man's friend is so angry and upset that he challenges John as well.

So the first pass they go toward each other with lances and the lances slam into each other and shatter. So the next pass they use pistols and as they ride toward each other John is hit but his suit of armor protects him. John's bullet hits the man's arm. He loses control of his horse and falls to the ground and as John wrote in his journals later the man lost his head as his friend did before. So now John's feeling pretty good so he issues a challenge of his own.

Hey, if there's anyone who's actually worthy of battling me you know let him step forth and a man named Bonnie Mulgrew accepts that challenge. So the first pass is pistols and they miss each other and the next pass is battle axes. So they're riding toward each other with these massive battle axes and as they swing the two battle axes hit and John's is thrown to the ground and the rules state that he has to pass again without his battle axe.

The only weapon he has is a small sword called a falchion. So as they're riding toward each other what John does is he holds on tight to the reins and he leans out as far as he can and the battle axe just misses him but then he turns quickly and uses that small sword and stabs it in between the shoulder blades on the suit of armor. So it's this amazing victory he is awarded by the leader of the regiment Prince Zygmunt a coat of arms a portrait in gold and a generous reward.

So according to English tradition if you have a coat of arms you are considered a gentleman. So John through acts of his own has now been elevated and he is considered a gentleman according to English society. So it wasn't long after that that his luck runs out there's a massive battle they were completely outnumbered and many many of the soldiers died and many more were taken prisoner and John was taken prisoner and he was sold as a slave to a man named Boscia and he was forced to walk 500 miles to Constantinople where Boscia gave John as a gift to a woman that he liked and her name was Turitska. But as you can imagine John and his broken Italian telling her tales of his adventures of his battles and his victories and how he's a hero and she knows if her parents find out that she's falling for this Englishman they are going to send him away forever. So she sends him away to her brother's farm out in the country and tells her brother keep this slave I will call for him in a couple of years. Well her brother figures out he puts two and two together and figures out that his sister likes this Englishman and so he treats John like the slave to the slaves and he shaves his head ball puts a thick metal band around his neck and forces him to work in the fields along with all the other slaves. One day John's out working in the wheat fields and the brother comes up on horseback and he begins to beat John and John knows something's different this time he's going to kill him. So he takes his wheat threshing bat and he swings it and knocks the brother off the horse and continues to beat him until he's dead shoves him under a pile of wheat takes his clothes takes his horse and rides north.

Now he is in the middle of enemy territory and he's in the middle of enemy territory he is so far from any allies he is very easily identified as a slave he has a thick metal band around his neck he's a white man so he rides for 16 days straight until he reaches Russia where he finds friendly troops and tells them his story and they release the metal ring from his neck and he is free. Now John kept journals and oftentimes he explained in great detail about conversations or what the place was like or often there was so much information but this is not one of those times. Now when he got back to England it was a very different England than the one he had left. When he left Queen Elizabeth I was the ruler while he was fighting in the crusades she died and her cousin King James was now in charge. Where Queen Elizabeth was very focused on strengthening England itself, King James was very focused on strengthening England by growing beyond its borders. Bartholomew Gosnell had just recently returned from a trip to Virginia and he believed that this land in Virginia would be a great place for England to establish a settlement to establish a colony so he was promoting it gathering people to take the journey trying to raise funds to support the journey and when he met John he thought oh this person is perfect. Well as you can imagine it takes a bit of time to prepare for such a journey and it took over two years for Bartholomew Gosnell to raise the funds, get the crew together, get enough passengers, get approval from King James and everything that goes along with that and as you can imagine John's not great at waiting around and just idly sitting by so he used the time really really wisely. He studied map making because he knew that they were among the first English to travel to this area and so they would need maps for those that came after them.

He studied Algonquin so that he would be able to communicate with the local American Indians. And what a story you're hearing about Captain John Smith. Anyone who's read his writing, his own journals, you can't put it down.

It's like Grant's writing Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs. This is some of the best reading material you can have to get your hands around Winston Churchill too, writing about his own life story and particularly all the battles he fought in his life. Smith's story very much like Churchill's except for one difference. Churchill grew up in a palace and fought to earn respect and Captain John Smith grew up on a farm and fought to earn his respect but both men earned the respect and accolades of their peers. And by the way, you're listening to Juliana Rogers, author of Captain John Smith American Hero. You can go to Amazon.com and get the book. You won't put it down.

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