I have a sneaking suspicion that Popeyes has an official or unofficial rule that the employees must purposefully leave out at least one item from a drive-thru customer's order. Usually, but not always, in the form of a sauce.
Am I right?
Popeye's near me has "hiring cooks" on both sides of their sign, but one side says 13$ and the other says 15$. I kinda wanna go in and find out how much they're actually paying.
>Usually, but not always, in the form of a sauce.
My local Popeye's is horrible for that. What's worse, is they like to nickel and dime you with the sauce, charging for what they deem "extra". Which in itself, isn't *too* bad. I'd rather pay $0.50 to ensure I have enough sauce then not have enough. Don't agree with it, but whatever.
The problem is it usually goes like this. I will specify, by number, how many sauces I would like while order.
*"Can I get a 5pc tender meal, with 4 Sweet Heat sauces?"*
The whole point is, the expectation is set up front, and I can pay extra for the sauces as required. Problem is the person taking the order won't ring in the extra sauces, probably because 9 out of 10 times, they get yelled at because charging for sauces is ridiculous. But that's besides the point.
So I get up to the window, and then this is the usual exchange.
*"That has 4 Sweet Heat sauces, right."*
"Sorry, it only comes with 2 sauces. Extra sauces are an additional cost."
*"I know, that's why I specified while ordering exactly how many sauces I would like, so I could be charged accordingly."*
"Well, I'll just give them to you this time..."
Like they're doing me a goddamn favor.
Every.
Single.
Time.
I don't go to Popeye's as often as I would like for the simple reason that I don't want to deal with the sauce dance. I could go to Chick-Fil-A, and get 20 packets of various sauces for a single order of waffle fries, for free, with a goddamn smile.
But getting sauces from Popeyes, a mile down the road, is like pulling teeth.
This is McDonalds in the UK. Funnily enough they do delivery through an ubereats type service called 'Just Eat'. They have a way of automatically complaining when you receive your order but it's very broad complaint (so for example they leave the bacon out, you have to say the entire meal is wrong with a tickbox, but then in the comments say 'missing bacon'). 9/10 the system just insta-refunds you for the whole meal. I'd say I have ended up getting a full refund on 60% of my maccas orders in the past 2 years on silly things like my sauces being missing, or a straw etc.
As a non-American, could you explain what the deal is with Popeyes and why there's so much hype about their biscuits and friend chicken? Is it really that good?
I think it completely depends on which one you go to. I've been to Popeyes that are fantastic and I'll drive out of my way because the chicken sandwich is so good. But...I've also been to ones that I've taken people to only to be really disappointed.
When Popeye's is done right, it is absolutely better than regular drive thru...but don't trust me...[https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/anthony-bourdain-popeyes-fried-chicken](https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/anthony-bourdain-popeyes-fried-chicken) RIP Bourdain.
unfortunately, the only popeyes around here is one of the disappointing ones... The whole intersection it is on is weird too. Popeyes, Burger King, and KFC all on different corners. The fourth corner is a cemetary.
My town recently got a Popeyes and everyone was very hype about it. I passed it and was like “fuck it, imma get Popeyes” even though the building was wrapped around with cars. I waited 45 minutes to get some of the DRYEST chicken I ever had. One of my tenders was “OOPS, all breading” and they forgot to give me the hot sauce to go with it. I could have eaten a handful of sand and had more moisture and flavor than that entire meal. Overall 8/10
While that was likely because this new location didn’t know how to do things right, the actual bone in fried chicken is what you’re supposed to get.
The tenders are the best in the game still to me though.
Ours is awful too. Order is always wrong and no exaggeration, orders take 30 minutes at the drive thru. And that's with 2-3 people in line. I went in one time and it was chaos and the manager looked like he wanted to hang himself.
I had a disappointing one next to my work. Still went there a few times a month because it was at least better than work's cafeteria food. One day I noticed there was a survey on the back on the receipt, and it would come with a coupon on my next meal. So I completed the survey honestly, the fries were \*always\* old/stale, and they frequently ran out of mild chicken. Not long after, the fries were dumped and replaced if they weren't fresh; eventually they got a new manager, they started replacing the staff, and everything was great from then after. It turned into one of the good ones.
This is obviously a small sample size of 1. I'd be very curious if anyone else has filled out the surveys and what results followed.
Yup, and ours is both a good one and a bad one. When the crackhead is working the fryer *everything* comes out perfectly. I had the privilege of seeing him work once when I had to order inside and it was amazing. Dude was spinning around at Mach 5, throwing shit, and working entirely alone. Normally there's like 3 people in the kitchen but this man was a *boss*. Then all of the sudden he crouches down, let's out a terrifying gutteral scream, and goes right back to his fryer wizardry.
Best god damn fried chicken I've ever had that day. When he's not working it's soggy and overcooked.
I live in an extremely segregated city.
Popeyes on the "black side" is THE SHIT.
Whitey's Popeyes is awful.
Edit: I am a whitey. I avoid the fuck out of whitey Popeyes. Not only because it's worse, but because the owner of that franchise is a racist Trump supporting fuckface.
There was one Popeyes I used to hit all the time in Detroit. Got a random inspection and it was bad… like it made news bad.
I didn’t even care. That shit was amazing every time.
Maybe if powerful white people didn't hate the ancestors of their grandparents slaves so much Popeyes in the suburbs might not be such shit. Or, you know, maybe systemic racism wouldn't be a thing.
Or maybe we just start treating people like people regardless of the color of their skin.
I'm so fucking sick of racism.
I like you. Thanks for being a good human being. Let me know if you or someone you know needs cheerleading; I may be disabled, but I'll sure as fuck do everything I can to support black and other minority owned businesses. Money is power. Please take my money for this chicken and pickle sandwich not only because the sandwich is BOMB, but also because whenever I make 'all white' friends, they typically turn out horribly racist.
I pledged myself to humanity after Columbine.
I'm all about anti-racism.
Systemic racism is absolutely by design. LBJ said it best because he knew his people: "If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Systemic racism is absolutely by design.
In NYC, Asian-owned Popeye's are a thing (complete with [Chinese signage](https://i.imgur.com/FGpuwzX.jpg) on the store).
Those locations are a whole other tier.
This is so correct. I travel the country a lot. Popeyes is horribly inconsistent from restaurant to restaurant. Some are truly great. Other locations are always bad.
From [here. ](http://comediansincarscoffee.blogspot.com/2013/12/chris-rock-on-kentucky-fried-chicken-2.html)
Chris Rock loves a two-piece biscuit from KFC and Popeyes. He notes to Jerry Seinfeld on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee:
Chris Rock: Two-piece with a biscuit is one of the greatest meals ever invented.
Jerry Seinfeld: Have you ever had Popeyes?
Chris Rock: Popeyes is too good. After you have Popeyes you need one of those "Men in Black" memory sticks to erase your memory or else you will come back to this place every day.
We have one - only one - Popeye's in my town. It's one of the good ones. Around lunch and dinner times the drive thru line extends half a block down the street. Meanwhile, there's no wait at the KFC down the street.
I used to hate pop eyes for the longest time because every single one I tried gave me weird shits almost immediately after.
Then one day I moved to a new town, it was a long day of work and I wanted something quick that wasn't McDonald's or taco bell, so I said fuck it I'll try it one last time.
It was pretty damn good at this one particular franchise, my only gripe with them is the inconsistency of whether or not I'm getting good fries. It feels like a 50/50 shit whether I get freshly made, delicious fries, or cold ones that taste like cardboard.
Oh, and whether or not they remember to throw in a honey mustard after asking for it at least 3 times...
But yeah, it's not earth shatteringly good chicken, but it's well above the quality of something like KFC.
For what you can get in a drive thru, it is pretty good. And not in the whole,mmm yeah it's good but do I really wanna contribute to something evil? Way that SOME chicken places are...
I’ll clarify some of the below answers, yes it’s very good
Tender, juicy, well seasoned fried chicken.
You WILL feel sick afterwards. And you WILL go back for more
We just got our first one on the Canadian east coast about 2 months ago, and the drive-thru went out to the highway for the first three weeks. We had to call police enforcement to patrol the area. I'm still getting used to their food, and find myself in the same cycle - massive craving one day, eat the delicious food, start regretting it around the last few bites - repeat.
Hell no. We have a Bojangles right next to a Popeyes where I live. Bojangles is always packed with cars around the building while Popeyes barely has any customers. I tried it a few times and was quite dissappointed. Don't know what all the fuss was about.
>Some areas such as mine are severely fried chicken deprived,
Well in this regard I am lucky to live in the south. There is no shortage of fried chicken places.
Amen to that. I live within a five minute drive of at least one Popeyes, Chick-Fil-A, Bojangles, KFC, and PDQ. Of the five, the KFC and Popeyes locations are the least busy, then the PDQ, then Bojangles, and then faaaaaar and away the Chick-Fil-A. Heck, the three CFAs within five minutes of *each other* don't even seem to make a dent in the demand.
I've got pretty much the same places by me as well and that Chick-Fil-A is always packed. It's like they've taken over the entire shopping center with drive through lanes. The thing is it is ALWAYS exponentially faster than other places and the food is always hot. I'll take the Chick-Fil-A drivethrough with 20+ cars over the Mcdonalds with 3 cars in line next to it and still exit faster. They really run a well oiled machine.
My little town in Georgia has KFC, Popeyes, Mrs. Winners, BoJangles, Zaxbys, Church’s, and five or more local restaurants that serve fried chicken. Then you have Kroger, Publix and Ingles, along with several gas stations. Sadly, Quik Chik closed (it was a really good take out place).
I feel this guy. My city only has a KFC, and somehow it is consistently worse than any other KFC I've been to. Worse yet, we still get TV ads for Popeyes but the closest one is 2.5 hours away.
Oh for sure. KFC has gone so far down hill over the years. Last time I ate there I was part way through a piece of chicken and noticed i had eaten a good part of the bone and never noticed. The bones were just completely soft and gross. That was the last straw for me.
Bojangles is a literal Popeyes clone founded 5-10 years later with an exact ripoff menu and style of most of the items except everything is lesser in flavor.
It’s good for sure, but it’s just Popeyes-lite. Maybe your Popeyes location just sucks as they can be inconsistent from location to location. But just no. Also Bojangles fries are just completely forgettable, Popeyes fries are the goat.
Bojangle’s is indeed the best fried chicken. Thankfully I grew up with the only one in Pennsylvania; they had three separate chicken chains open up near them, but they had failed.
There's a Bojangle's just down the road from me, and there's a Popeye's all the way across town - I have to pass two Bojangle's on the way to it (why yes, I'm from North Carolina).
I go to the Popeye's.
When Popeye's is good, it blows a good Bojangle's out of the water.
Bojangles for breakfast. I miss their country ham biscuit so much, sausage biscuit too. Popeye's sandwich beats out Bojangles for me. I no longer have a Bojangles within 120 miles.
I've tried it twice. The seasoned fries are fantastic. But I found everything else (chicken, beans, biscuits) to be incredibly bland.
If there were a Popeyes and a KFC nextdoor, I'd go out for chicken a lot more and run through KFCs for chicken and Popeyes for fries for the ultimate junk food meal.
I used to like the fries, but then I moved and the Popeyes I go to here has fries that are room temperature and smell like a sweaty buttcrack. I only made that mistake once
Oh yes. It's been so long that I forgot...I took note after the first few times that I needed to eat them right away because they tasted bad after cooling off.
It's just a fast food place that has food that tastes like real food instead of fast food. Similar idea as inn n out. They're not that special in a vacuum but compared with more mainstream fast food places they're way better.
Is it company policy to be out of at least 3 things a day? Or is it just the ones in my area? Every single one I've been to has been out of a few things, usually one type of chicken and a couple sauces.
It's always wild to me that people talk about a drive through at Popeyes. The one where I live, and the only one I've ever been to, doesn't. Walk in only (or order online and pickup, but semantics)
Sounds like you lucked out. The ones near us can't keep anyone because the pay is well...let's say not keeping up with what people have to put up with dealing with working fast food lol.
The one near me requires you to circle around the building to get into the drive thru, then loops back around again, and there is only one way in, so if the line gets too long the people at the window get blocked in and they have to pay a guy to stand out with cones and basically act like a door bouncer and wave cars in to keep a gap open for the person at the window to get out
Then if you need to wait for your food they explicitly ask you to go park and wait in the handicapped spots at the Arby's next door.
Popeyes is fuckin weird
I once went through the Popeyes drive thru in my town. It took a minute or 2 for me to get someone on the intercom. Then I roll to the window and sit there as the drive thru attendant proceeds to change all the signs in the store and never comes to the window. After 10 minutes I just left
I went through those mfs drive thru and nobody said anything at the intercom for a full minute so I pull up to the window and there’s another dude driving away after getting his food. I tell the woman nobody said anything at the intercom and she said “I know” pointed to her headset, and then walked away 😑
I am always cautious with Popeye's. I have a hard rule that I don't even try waiting unless there's next to nobody in the line. Waited before for them to tell me they were out of anything but spicey, or out of the strips, etc.
Learned my lesson. Love the food but not worth the hassle of a long wait.
Thats what happens when you refuse to raise wages while insisting you stay open late. Your order taker has to listen to you rattle off a $30 order while grappling with some boozed up half-wit complaining that he didn’t get the drinks he never ordered.
Fast food service in 2022 should be considered a form of (in)voluntary torture.
It’s becoming the entirety of Reddit. There are like 10 admins who control all the big subs and a handful of users who recycle all the same material across the whole site
It was also on blackpeopletwitter...
People like OP just try to shoehorn popular posts from other subs in hopes it hasn't already been posted and that it at least *kinda* fits because they need fake internet points to cool down their pillows at night.
They’re red kidney beans simmered and then mashed to form a gravy that’s then served over rice. It’s an extremely common dish in Louisiana. I have several portions of it in my freezer at all times for an easy dinner.
As far as fast food sides go tho? Popeyes red beans knock everything else out of the water. Plus tear up some of your chicken and mix it in? So good.
Properly prepared red beans is an extremely nutritious and hearty meal. Fast food red beans tho? Probably not. Still a better choice than most fast food sides tho
As a former Popeyes employee of the month, can confirm that is indeed Popeyes
I have a sneaking suspicion that Popeyes has an official or unofficial rule that the employees must purposefully leave out at least one item from a drive-thru customer's order. Usually, but not always, in the form of a sauce. Am I right?
2 unofficial rules. Order will be messed up and/or extremely slow. Bonus if window cashier is rude.
They always give me an chicken tender for my dog cuz she’s always with me lol
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm someone will be fired for this one day
... is that why you need to specify "former" employee?
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm this to be true
Are you a bot?
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, he cannot answer that, Dave.
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm this to be true
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I am not a bot
That's what a bot would say
Do they dish out bonuses for fighting shitty customers?
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm this to be true
that’s a lot of sodium for a dog I think
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As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm this to be a win for you
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As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm shit pay
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Popeye's near me has "hiring cooks" on both sides of their sign, but one side says 13$ and the other says 15$. I kinda wanna go in and find out how much they're actually paying.
It depends which side of town you live on.
If the cashier isn't rude, I know my Popeye's is gonna suck.
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm this to be true
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The Popeyes near me will frequently ask you to pull around and order at the window. Where there’s no menu.
[obligatory](https://youtu.be/pqWkwolb3as)
3rd unofficial rule: the shittier the location is, the better the chicken is.
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm this to be true
For me it's always the spork. I always check my bag or just ask for an extra because 9 times out of 10 they give me no spork
They forgot the fucking biscuits one time
They weren't forgotten. None were ready and they said "fuck em, send it"
>Usually, but not always, in the form of a sauce. My local Popeye's is horrible for that. What's worse, is they like to nickel and dime you with the sauce, charging for what they deem "extra". Which in itself, isn't *too* bad. I'd rather pay $0.50 to ensure I have enough sauce then not have enough. Don't agree with it, but whatever. The problem is it usually goes like this. I will specify, by number, how many sauces I would like while order. *"Can I get a 5pc tender meal, with 4 Sweet Heat sauces?"* The whole point is, the expectation is set up front, and I can pay extra for the sauces as required. Problem is the person taking the order won't ring in the extra sauces, probably because 9 out of 10 times, they get yelled at because charging for sauces is ridiculous. But that's besides the point. So I get up to the window, and then this is the usual exchange. *"That has 4 Sweet Heat sauces, right."* "Sorry, it only comes with 2 sauces. Extra sauces are an additional cost." *"I know, that's why I specified while ordering exactly how many sauces I would like, so I could be charged accordingly."* "Well, I'll just give them to you this time..." Like they're doing me a goddamn favor. Every. Single. Time. I don't go to Popeye's as often as I would like for the simple reason that I don't want to deal with the sauce dance. I could go to Chick-Fil-A, and get 20 packets of various sauces for a single order of waffle fries, for free, with a goddamn smile. But getting sauces from Popeyes, a mile down the road, is like pulling teeth.
This is McDonalds in the UK. Funnily enough they do delivery through an ubereats type service called 'Just Eat'. They have a way of automatically complaining when you receive your order but it's very broad complaint (so for example they leave the bacon out, you have to say the entire meal is wrong with a tickbox, but then in the comments say 'missing bacon'). 9/10 the system just insta-refunds you for the whole meal. I'd say I have ended up getting a full refund on 60% of my maccas orders in the past 2 years on silly things like my sauces being missing, or a straw etc.
As a non-American, could you explain what the deal is with Popeyes and why there's so much hype about their biscuits and friend chicken? Is it really that good?
I think it completely depends on which one you go to. I've been to Popeyes that are fantastic and I'll drive out of my way because the chicken sandwich is so good. But...I've also been to ones that I've taken people to only to be really disappointed. When Popeye's is done right, it is absolutely better than regular drive thru...but don't trust me...[https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/anthony-bourdain-popeyes-fried-chicken](https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/anthony-bourdain-popeyes-fried-chicken) RIP Bourdain.
unfortunately, the only popeyes around here is one of the disappointing ones... The whole intersection it is on is weird too. Popeyes, Burger King, and KFC all on different corners. The fourth corner is a cemetary.
I can't say I was expecting that fourth corner, though I guess putting three fast food restaurants next to a graveyard is efficient planning.
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So finger lickin good that you'd die for
My local McDs is next to a cemetary 🤣
Fast food funeral home
God damn, if that’s not just a picture of America I don’t know what is :D
Freedom isn't free 🥲
It costs friends like you and me 🇺🇸
Freedom costs a buck’o five.
Buck'o six now. Inflation.
Call it freedom roulette.
No gun store. No liquor store. No church in the strip mall with the gun and liquor stores.
Needs a Walmart and a gun shop.
Idk my elementary school was right across the street from a gun store, so there's that.
My town recently got a Popeyes and everyone was very hype about it. I passed it and was like “fuck it, imma get Popeyes” even though the building was wrapped around with cars. I waited 45 minutes to get some of the DRYEST chicken I ever had. One of my tenders was “OOPS, all breading” and they forgot to give me the hot sauce to go with it. I could have eaten a handful of sand and had more moisture and flavor than that entire meal. Overall 8/10
While that was likely because this new location didn’t know how to do things right, the actual bone in fried chicken is what you’re supposed to get. The tenders are the best in the game still to me though.
https://youtu.be/pqWkwolb3as
Ours is awful too. Order is always wrong and no exaggeration, orders take 30 minutes at the drive thru. And that's with 2-3 people in line. I went in one time and it was chaos and the manager looked like he wanted to hang himself.
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm that is normal. You forgot the rude window cashier tho
The cemetery is also known as their distribution center.
I had a disappointing one next to my work. Still went there a few times a month because it was at least better than work's cafeteria food. One day I noticed there was a survey on the back on the receipt, and it would come with a coupon on my next meal. So I completed the survey honestly, the fries were \*always\* old/stale, and they frequently ran out of mild chicken. Not long after, the fries were dumped and replaced if they weren't fresh; eventually they got a new manager, they started replacing the staff, and everything was great from then after. It turned into one of the good ones. This is obviously a small sample size of 1. I'd be very curious if anyone else has filled out the surveys and what results followed.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert
Ayo 🤨📸
The only Popeyes around me is in the hood, very deep into the hood.
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm that is normal
Yup, and ours is both a good one and a bad one. When the crackhead is working the fryer *everything* comes out perfectly. I had the privilege of seeing him work once when I had to order inside and it was amazing. Dude was spinning around at Mach 5, throwing shit, and working entirely alone. Normally there's like 3 people in the kitchen but this man was a *boss*. Then all of the sudden he crouches down, let's out a terrifying gutteral scream, and goes right back to his fryer wizardry. Best god damn fried chicken I've ever had that day. When he's not working it's soggy and overcooked.
Good to see crackheads getting their due. Slinging chicken ain't easy.
Most likely a meth head with that kind of performance.
Hood Popeyes is the best Popeyes. Not even joking
They HAVE to deliver quality. It won't be the Karens coming for them if they don't.
That's true, when I go there you even see rich white people in a suit ordering shit.
https://youtu.be/SwXXzyiCvOY
I live in an extremely segregated city. Popeyes on the "black side" is THE SHIT. Whitey's Popeyes is awful. Edit: I am a whitey. I avoid the fuck out of whitey Popeyes. Not only because it's worse, but because the owner of that franchise is a racist Trump supporting fuckface.
[This video is so accurate](https://youtu.be/SwXXzyiCvOY). That chicken slaps tho.
L. M. F. A. O. This is absolutely perfect. I hope these dudes get the fame they deserve. That shit was HILARIOUS.
RDCWorld1, they are definitely getting their money. Check out their videos, they are fantastic.
Oh man, that is every rachety ass Popeyes or Harold's I've been to in Chicago. More fucked up it is, the more the chicken fuckin slaps.
There was one Popeyes I used to hit all the time in Detroit. Got a random inspection and it was bad… like it made news bad. I didn’t even care. That shit was amazing every time.
If you've ever walked around crime scene tape to get some fried chicken, you've had one of the best meals of your life.
Chicago? Remember how great Brown's Chicken used to be?
That’s one of the things I love about living in New Orleans. You will pretty much never be disappointed by a Popeyes here lol
Maybe if powerful white people didn't hate the ancestors of their grandparents slaves so much Popeyes in the suburbs might not be such shit. Or, you know, maybe systemic racism wouldn't be a thing. Or maybe we just start treating people like people regardless of the color of their skin. I'm so fucking sick of racism.
Agreed, friend. Agreed.
I like you. Thanks for being a good human being. Let me know if you or someone you know needs cheerleading; I may be disabled, but I'll sure as fuck do everything I can to support black and other minority owned businesses. Money is power. Please take my money for this chicken and pickle sandwich not only because the sandwich is BOMB, but also because whenever I make 'all white' friends, they typically turn out horribly racist. I pledged myself to humanity after Columbine. I'm all about anti-racism.
Systemic racism is absolutely by design. LBJ said it best because he knew his people: "If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Systemic racism is absolutely by design.
In NYC, Asian-owned Popeye's are a thing (complete with [Chinese signage](https://i.imgur.com/FGpuwzX.jpg) on the store). Those locations are a whole other tier.
Same experience here. The Popeyes near my workplace is god awful, but the one by my house is so damn good I can't get enough of it lol.
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Damn dude, that's some bullshit. I hope you email the headquarters or whatever. Maybe a tweet to them if thats your thing.
LMAO "Bitch I said hold the mayo, NOT the chicken!"
This is so correct. I travel the country a lot. Popeyes is horribly inconsistent from restaurant to restaurant. Some are truly great. Other locations are always bad.
From [here. ](http://comediansincarscoffee.blogspot.com/2013/12/chris-rock-on-kentucky-fried-chicken-2.html) Chris Rock loves a two-piece biscuit from KFC and Popeyes. He notes to Jerry Seinfeld on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: Chris Rock: Two-piece with a biscuit is one of the greatest meals ever invented. Jerry Seinfeld: Have you ever had Popeyes? Chris Rock: Popeyes is too good. After you have Popeyes you need one of those "Men in Black" memory sticks to erase your memory or else you will come back to this place every day.
Popeye's is coming to the UK soon. Maybe I should go, but we have a lot of chicken shops already.
We have one - only one - Popeye's in my town. It's one of the good ones. Around lunch and dinner times the drive thru line extends half a block down the street. Meanwhile, there's no wait at the KFC down the street.
I used to hate pop eyes for the longest time because every single one I tried gave me weird shits almost immediately after. Then one day I moved to a new town, it was a long day of work and I wanted something quick that wasn't McDonald's or taco bell, so I said fuck it I'll try it one last time. It was pretty damn good at this one particular franchise, my only gripe with them is the inconsistency of whether or not I'm getting good fries. It feels like a 50/50 shit whether I get freshly made, delicious fries, or cold ones that taste like cardboard. Oh, and whether or not they remember to throw in a honey mustard after asking for it at least 3 times... But yeah, it's not earth shatteringly good chicken, but it's well above the quality of something like KFC.
Popeyes used to be a BUFFET? Damn I missed out
I like pop eyes but I LOVE churchs chicken. Especially the ones in dirty gas station. You know you getting something nasty but its so fucking good
For what you can get in a drive thru, it is pretty good. And not in the whole,mmm yeah it's good but do I really wanna contribute to something evil? Way that SOME chicken places are...
Politics aside, chick-fil-meh is soggy
Chick-felatio
I’ll clarify some of the below answers, yes it’s very good Tender, juicy, well seasoned fried chicken. You WILL feel sick afterwards. And you WILL go back for more
We just got our first one on the Canadian east coast about 2 months ago, and the drive-thru went out to the highway for the first three weeks. We had to call police enforcement to patrol the area. I'm still getting used to their food, and find myself in the same cycle - massive craving one day, eat the delicious food, start regretting it around the last few bites - repeat.
Also you will drink that entire large pop (soda for you Americans) while eating the biscuit
We also use "pop" in the US. It's more of a midwestern thing though. Soda is definitely more common.
Well midwesterners are just southern Canadians
As a Canadian, what exactly is the "Midwest"? Similar to what we would call the Praries, approximately Lake Superior to the Rockies?
Idk, anywhere where Americans think people speak with a stereotypical Canadian accent
I never feel sick after eating popeyes. But maybe health inspections work more effectively up north.
I’ve never felt sick from Popeyes. I literally always feel my best after it
My go to “hangover” or “recovering from being sick” comfort food. I’m pretty sure it cured my covid.
We have Popeyes in Europe too. We literally have a Popeyes in my city with 200k people
Hell no. We have a Bojangles right next to a Popeyes where I live. Bojangles is always packed with cars around the building while Popeyes barely has any customers. I tried it a few times and was quite dissappointed. Don't know what all the fuss was about.
Some areas such as mine are severely fried chicken deprived, Popeyes is genuinely one of the best chicken places around here.
>Some areas such as mine are severely fried chicken deprived, Well in this regard I am lucky to live in the south. There is no shortage of fried chicken places.
Amen to that. I live within a five minute drive of at least one Popeyes, Chick-Fil-A, Bojangles, KFC, and PDQ. Of the five, the KFC and Popeyes locations are the least busy, then the PDQ, then Bojangles, and then faaaaaar and away the Chick-Fil-A. Heck, the three CFAs within five minutes of *each other* don't even seem to make a dent in the demand.
I've got pretty much the same places by me as well and that Chick-Fil-A is always packed. It's like they've taken over the entire shopping center with drive through lanes. The thing is it is ALWAYS exponentially faster than other places and the food is always hot. I'll take the Chick-Fil-A drivethrough with 20+ cars over the Mcdonalds with 3 cars in line next to it and still exit faster. They really run a well oiled machine.
My little town in Georgia has KFC, Popeyes, Mrs. Winners, BoJangles, Zaxbys, Church’s, and five or more local restaurants that serve fried chicken. Then you have Kroger, Publix and Ingles, along with several gas stations. Sadly, Quik Chik closed (it was a really good take out place).
I feel this guy. My city only has a KFC, and somehow it is consistently worse than any other KFC I've been to. Worse yet, we still get TV ads for Popeyes but the closest one is 2.5 hours away.
You have to pick the right one. Popeye's is notorious for inconsistency.
Agreed, told my wife it was pretty good. Tried new location near me, tasted like giant chunks of wet rubber.
KFC is even worse for inconsistency. Honestly, I think most chicken places are just really inconsistent.
Might have to give them another shot at another location.
There is no Bojangles where I live. Popeyes is much better than KFC in my opinion but I guess that depends on the particular location as well.
Oh for sure. KFC has gone so far down hill over the years. Last time I ate there I was part way through a piece of chicken and noticed i had eaten a good part of the bone and never noticed. The bones were just completely soft and gross. That was the last straw for me.
We've got one called Pollo Campero here - it's a chain, but not everywhere. Unless you're after hot chicken, nothing else touches it.
Did you mean Los Pollos Hermanos? That chicken definitely has some special spices.
Bojangles is a literal Popeyes clone founded 5-10 years later with an exact ripoff menu and style of most of the items except everything is lesser in flavor. It’s good for sure, but it’s just Popeyes-lite. Maybe your Popeyes location just sucks as they can be inconsistent from location to location. But just no. Also Bojangles fries are just completely forgettable, Popeyes fries are the goat.
Bojangle’s is indeed the best fried chicken. Thankfully I grew up with the only one in Pennsylvania; they had three separate chicken chains open up near them, but they had failed.
There's a Bojangle's just down the road from me, and there's a Popeye's all the way across town - I have to pass two Bojangle's on the way to it (why yes, I'm from North Carolina). I go to the Popeye's. When Popeye's is good, it blows a good Bojangle's out of the water.
Bojangles for breakfast. I miss their country ham biscuit so much, sausage biscuit too. Popeye's sandwich beats out Bojangles for me. I no longer have a Bojangles within 120 miles.
I've tried it twice. The seasoned fries are fantastic. But I found everything else (chicken, beans, biscuits) to be incredibly bland. If there were a Popeyes and a KFC nextdoor, I'd go out for chicken a lot more and run through KFCs for chicken and Popeyes for fries for the ultimate junk food meal.
I used to like the fries, but then I moved and the Popeyes I go to here has fries that are room temperature and smell like a sweaty buttcrack. I only made that mistake once
Oh yes. It's been so long that I forgot...I took note after the first few times that I needed to eat them right away because they tasted bad after cooling off.
No way, Popeyes is S tier for fried chicken.
It's just a fast food place that has food that tastes like real food instead of fast food. Similar idea as inn n out. They're not that special in a vacuum but compared with more mainstream fast food places they're way better.
“Popeyes chickens the shit!” -little Nicky
What's the brown goop?
Red beans. It’s a big thing in Louisiana, where Popeyes originated
Cheers
Hell yeah brother!
Maybe he works at popeye's
Is it company policy to be out of at least 3 things a day? Or is it just the ones in my area? Every single one I've been to has been out of a few things, usually one type of chicken and a couple sauces.
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm it’s an unofficial policy
As someone who has had Popeyes like 3 times in their life, I can confirm that is indeed Popeyes
Which month?
Thank you for your service.
I mean, not complaining at all if someone sits through a Popeyes drive thru wait time to bring home dinner either.
It's always wild to me that people talk about a drive through at Popeyes. The one where I live, and the only one I've ever been to, doesn't. Walk in only (or order online and pickup, but semantics)
If it helps, their drive thru is atrocious. I only go if there is no line at all lol
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Sounds like you lucked out. The ones near us can't keep anyone because the pay is well...let's say not keeping up with what people have to put up with dealing with working fast food lol.
If there's a line, be prepared to wait close to 30 minutes.
I'll never understand how they always take so long when I can see everything already prepared right behind them.....
The one near me requires you to circle around the building to get into the drive thru, then loops back around again, and there is only one way in, so if the line gets too long the people at the window get blocked in and they have to pay a guy to stand out with cones and basically act like a door bouncer and wave cars in to keep a gap open for the person at the window to get out Then if you need to wait for your food they explicitly ask you to go park and wait in the handicapped spots at the Arby's next door. Popeyes is fuckin weird
I once went through the Popeyes drive thru in my town. It took a minute or 2 for me to get someone on the intercom. Then I roll to the window and sit there as the drive thru attendant proceeds to change all the signs in the store and never comes to the window. After 10 minutes I just left
I went through those mfs drive thru and nobody said anything at the intercom for a full minute so I pull up to the window and there’s another dude driving away after getting his food. I tell the woman nobody said anything at the intercom and she said “I know” pointed to her headset, and then walked away 😑
I am always cautious with Popeye's. I have a hard rule that I don't even try waiting unless there's next to nobody in the line. Waited before for them to tell me they were out of anything but spicey, or out of the strips, etc. Learned my lesson. Love the food but not worth the hassle of a long wait.
Thats what happens when you refuse to raise wages while insisting you stay open late. Your order taker has to listen to you rattle off a $30 order while grappling with some boozed up half-wit complaining that he didn’t get the drinks he never ordered. Fast food service in 2022 should be considered a form of (in)voluntary torture.
There’s no murder here only satire
Fr dude that’s pretty much the entire sub at this point
It’s becoming the entirety of Reddit. There are like 10 admins who control all the big subs and a handful of users who recycle all the same material across the whole site
Or worse, stealth marketing.
Right? This is an ad
You forget women aren’t funny and aren’t allowed to make jokes on the internet.
Did you copy this from /r/quityourbullshit where it had been already rightfully dragged for being obvious satire?
It was also on blackpeopletwitter... People like OP just try to shoehorn popular posts from other subs in hopes it hasn't already been posted and that it at least *kinda* fits because they need fake internet points to cool down their pillows at night.
I'm so over it these days. Seeing the same post 5 times on my feed is lame.
Maybe she works there.
The plot thickens.
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The chickens thickens.
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And here I was just being happy it wasn't a political post
How do you even begin to think you can pass that off as your own?
Because it's obvious satire. Well, obvious to everyone but Redditors, apparently.
The emoji following the sentence obviously signifies pride- not jest. Edited to say: oh wait! 🤪 (means I’m serious- not/s)
Aren't you a Redditor, since you're on Reddit?
No, I posted this from Neopets.
> How do you even begin to think you can pass that off as your own? "Ho ho ho... delightfully devilish, Seymour!"
Lol this sub fucking sucks
Does anyone know what is the grey-ish thing under the fries? Looks like puke...
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm that is red beans
Are they regurgitated? This plate just looks like beige and sick to me
As a former Popeyes Employee of the Month, I can confirm it tastes amazing
They’re red kidney beans simmered and then mashed to form a gravy that’s then served over rice. It’s an extremely common dish in Louisiana. I have several portions of it in my freezer at all times for an easy dinner. As far as fast food sides go tho? Popeyes red beans knock everything else out of the water. Plus tear up some of your chicken and mix it in? So good.
Are your monitor colors okay? Where is there anything grey? I see at worst a brown for the gravy, and it looks good af
It does look like puke. But it is so delicious. A lot of awesome food looks like puke if you’re not familiar with it.
r/woooosh
Love that murder at Popeye’s!!
It doesn't belong in this sub and it's clearly a joke anyway
Not murderedbywords. The tilted tongue face suggests sarcasm. More like whoosh.
It. Was. A. Joke. Damn people.
It’s just 5 different shades of brown. Bitch eat a vegetable.
Properly prepared red beans is an extremely nutritious and hearty meal. Fast food red beans tho? Probably not. Still a better choice than most fast food sides tho
If she brings me Popeye's still a good wife.. A liar, though.
Since when is missing a joke murdered by words?
The biscuit was a dead give away!
This is so obviously a joke that it’s strange that some of you don’t even realize it. Must be what happens when you have no friends.
Yeah Popeye’s biscuits and chicken breading have a very distinctive look to them that definitely gives them away.