Perhaps the whites had money for Chik-Fil-A and the people of color were, uh, brown-bagging it?
Near my school, it's pretty much all white. Area, Chik-Fil-A workers, CFA customers. Been there a bunch of times. Then again, it's a few blocks from where I teach and a good place to kill time after school. I have students of color who work for Chik-Fil-A, but not that one. The one closer to their neighborhood. Houston self-segregates to a scary degree, but most kids want to work closer to home.
The one near the Walmart on the way to my school? Fair number of Latinos. Fair number of whites. Some blacks. Neighborhood, employees, customers. Only have been there once.
The one near the post office? Latino owner, mostly Latino and black ... neighborhood, employees, customers. It's clientele really resembled that of the grocery store near it. Been there once, too. It just opened in July.
Hadn't realized this until this post. Sort of had to riffle back through memories and images to find the info.
Then again, I'm sort of slow that way. I've been followed by store clerks who kept asking if they could help me. Only later would I realize that I was the only non-Asian non-Urdu-speaking person in the store, or the only non-Central-American shopper. For my birthday I insisted on going to some small Honduran place where they had to scrounge to find a waitress that spoke any English. Eh. Probably a good thing. My high school students are just like me when I was a grad student: When you look for something, you find it everywhere.
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