A San Antonio Chick-fil-A manager has given new meaning to the phrase “a wing and a prayer.”
The boss at one of the famed chicken joint’s Texas locations went viral after an April 7 TikTok showed him praying over customers, urging them to “stick to God.”
The clip of the manager, known only as “Mr. Matt,” earned plenty of praise and thousands of likes — though some keyboard warriors got their claws out about the God-fearing episode at the Northwoods location on San Pedro Avenue.
“He’s the best,” Sergio, another of the store’s managers, told The Post. “If it’s someone’s birthday, he gets the whole dining room to sing to them. He brings his positive energy everywhere he goes.”
Danielle Gill, wife of conservative US Rep. Brandon Gill, who represents Texas’s 26th Congressional District, reposted the video.
“This San Antonio, Texas Chick-fil-A manager has gone viral for praying for his customers and encouraging them to ‘stick to God’ during lunch,” she wrote, along with a praying hands emoji.
“More of this, please! God bless him.”
Mr. Matt included encouraging messages in the impromptu sermon.
“Trust in Him … Don’t worry about today, just trust in God … Lean on Him,” he said.
Mr. Matt’s lunchtime sermon was exactly what some diners ordered.
“Even if you don’t believe, everyone needs prayer. Thank you sir,” said one commenter on Instagram.
“Which CFA is this? I want to go there,” enthused another, while a third went all out with “yes and amen in the name of Jesus hallelujah thank you God amen.”
Not everyone was feeling Mr. Matt’s blessing.
“If I wanted that, I would go to a church. I go to a restaurant to eat,” someone scolded on X.
“How about he just does he damn job without religious bull***t?” squawked another.
“Just concentrate on making good chicken sandwiches,” groused a third.
Praying in a Chick-fil-A is hardly out of character — the chain’s business model is rooted in Biblical principles.
Founder S. Truett Cathy, who opened the first restaurant in 1967 in Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall, laid out a corporate policy that leans on Christianity.
Cathy, who died in 2014, wrote that Chick-fil-A will “glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.”
Mr. Matt and corporate headquarters did not respond to requests for comment.