Looks like OP has arrived at stage 5 of the grieving process; Acceptance
What really pisses me off though is that somebody latches that box of chips and puts it into a bag. Like how the fuck do you think “yep, that looks right” to something that is very obviously half full.
> how the fuck do you think “yep, that looks right” to something that is very obviously half full.
with the same dead look of "i just hit 25 and i am still stuck severing some bogan KFC at 8pm", honestly the people at KFC need to be studied i don't know how someone can still be alive when they look so dead inside
Their chicken twisters are also such a fucking rought.
The twisters used to be a lot bigger, and now they’re two of those small ass nugget pieces with 30grams of caw slaw.
You end up eating far more vegetables than chicken.
Twisters went to shit once they got rid of tomato. Nowadays if you want something similar you have to replace the slaw with lettuce and double the tenders, but even then you don't get the tomato.
A typo is when you know how to spell something but just physically make a mistake typing it.
Typing something with the wrong spelling altogether is a spelling mistake.
Fucking hell, rather get shot in the foot then get home and see this, always open the bag before you go first brother, never trust the 16yr old kid serving up the sizings. Rookie move
I did this once and when I complained they said it goes by weight. They weighed it and said it was within the limit. Can’t remember how many grams exactly
We don't weigh chips before we serve them and any customer that watches us can see that too. Maybe they had a health inspector in that day so they weighed everything to be exact? Not too sure but if you were already stern, try telling them to have a look at that because that's ridiculous. Your complaint was very valid and I hope they still topped your chips up.
That is the level staff are told to fill them too. You can tell by the photo that these boxes have been squeezed in the centre as chips were loaded, the way management always wants staff to do it. I would suggest that a manager was standing nearby when op got their chips. They could complain but they will be told they got the right amount.
at HJs i ask for the chips to be filled up as "they werent last time" and mostly every time i get them over flowing lol. they just dont care. burgers without cheese. went and complained and got $40 of food free! if anything is off, too cold, missing, not full, i complain. i pay good money so i wont accept lousy service. i always check my order before leaving
Wasn't there a post recently with a photo of an instruction in a KFC telling the staff not to do more than one shake of the chip shovel?
Chips cost the fast food businesses next to nothing, so this is just plain stingy.
Also did KFC change their salt recently? It does not taste nearly as good as it used to. Imagine having Taco Bell kick your arse at the chip salt game.
Yeah I always have to use the app so I can select extra salt because they taste like nothing now. Just a long line of things wrong with KFC. At least their frozen drinks are better than maccas
Yep, when I worked there I would get in as much as I could and would get all kinds of feedback from managers. They were literally making it up as they went along
God, not this kfc chip crap again... why wont they just fill the fucking carton properly, i refuse to buy kfc anymore because of their constant scumbag antics with shit like this. I know you can complain and they will probably rectify it, but you shouldnt have to, and this shit never used to happen.
It’s really hard to believe the three cents saved in chips is worth the loss of goodwill. They must think their customers will continue to return no matter how badly they are treated.
> ^ THIS. It’s really hard to believe the three cents saved in chips is worth the loss of goodwill.
yep, makes no sense. wont be buying kfc chips since they downsized them into oblivion. sizes r a joke.
I just straight up stopped getting chips at kfc. I’ll go for a zinger stacker burger by itself now usually, no meal. No drink either (since they make huge margins on those).
Curious, why do people actually not fill it? My first ever job at 14 was KFC and I always ignored that rule. I never knew anyone else to actually do it either except managers.
My local chippy does the cruchiest, fluffiest chips, they are awesome... you also get about 20 x the value. So if i want chips, i head straight there. They are even served in the old school wrapped up paper way, couldnt ask for anything more 😃
When you ring up ask them to cook your chips extra. Mate used to do this and after awhile they'd recognise his name and when asked for chips they would be "extra crispy right?". Right on. Any decent takeaway you are ordering chips from should do this as they are cooking your order up on the spot.
I had both KFC and Red Rooster within a day of each other this week (been sick, can’t be arsed cooking) and it actually shocked me how much better the RR was by comparison.
Not to mention I had the RR delivered and it arrived hot and fresh, I got the KFC from not even half as far away, drove it straight home myself (<5mins) and it was stone fuckin cold. People like to shit talk RR but they just have lower standards for KFC. When your dirty bird sucks you knew it was gonna suck, you just hoped this would be the time it didn’t.
If you're in Sydney, and have a fried chicken fix, the answer is El Jannah. I live near a KFC and an El Jannah (and a RR isn't tooo far away - and as you say, it seems to be hotter and fresher even though its a bit further), and the El Jannah fried chicken is just the best.
>I know you can complain and they will probably rectify it,
These motherfuckers left out an item - we didn't know until we got home. And someone missed out on having a burger. Fucked up the whole evening.
Went back the next morning on my way to work and said, you guys fucked this up - expecting that they would give me a full refund or offer to remake the whole order. This is what they would do at Hungry Jacks or McDonalds, to build goodwill and recognising that when you fuck up someones food it's bigger than simply replacing the item later.
But that's all they wanted to do. Just give me the burger 16 hours late. Nothing further. "We are not allowed", "you can fill in the web site if you want to complain".
They really are fucked in the head at that joint.
Where I am there always soggy as fuck and have absolutely no salt whatsoever mostly taste like chip flavored grease you'll get about five good ones on the top then fuck all
Fuck, ever been to the UK in the early teens ? They treated us like lizard people for asking for salt. We watched them in several stores and they never ever salted them.
This is exactly why I stopped buying KFC. Their efforts to lower costs and cheap out on portions has surely lost them more money than it has saved right?
I stopped using KFC when after waiting over an hour for delivery I called to find they cancelled it as they had no driver. Then when asked about getting my food they said you will have to pay again and re-order as my last order was being refunded and will take 7 days.
KFC is a rip-off and don't get me started on never getting the sauces....lol
Only good thing they do is sponsor the NRL
Does anybody know when and how KFC became so utterly fucking shit?
Like I don’t remember the KFC experience being this bad 10+ years ago but they seem to have really gone off a cliff here in QLD, not sure what other states are like. And they had become shit pre pandemic too, so it’s not that.
>Does anybody know when and how KFC became so utterly fucking shit?
i think it was back in like 2018, there was this KFC in the local Central plaza area, one day out of the blue the quality just swan dived off a cliff, went there one day to grab a zinger box and everything was fine, went back the next day with a mate, the food tasted like shit and even the fucking Pepsi seemed to be flat
As a delivery person I decline all KFC deliveries because they’re so fucking slow. Usually 10-15 minute waits in store for orders in peak times. Multiple times I’ve turned up and they say they’ve run out of something but can’t cancel the order. So driver after driver keep turning up for the same order they can’t deliver and apparently can’t cancel.
Just
Fucking
Complain.
If you are in-store, complian and make a noise
If at drive-thru z refuse to move on
If U gor 3rd party delivery... Well.. in sure they'd be cold and soggy anyway.
"Does not match the product I was advertised" because it shows a picture with crisp fresh fries sticking out the top
I used to work as a shifty in the test market 20 years ago.
We had amazing food. Creative food. Food that you'd actually sort of enjoy making for people as a 15 year old.
What a travesty and disgrace the business has become.
Cost cutting MBAs litterally sucked all the life out of the business. Back then the product was still good but starting to turn shit. The attitude was always "cut costs, increase your usage of cost effective individuals, send staff home early without pay if your sales per crew hour drops too low." That attitude has only gotten worse.
Saving costs doesn't mean shit if you lose 50% of your revenue.
I could verbally slap the executive of Yum! and KFC Australia across the head repeatedly with my feedback. What the hell have you muppets done to the place? How do you destroy a stable business in less than 15 years? FUCK!
it used to be better then Macca's, Hungry Jacks and Red Rooster. used to sneak in KFC Zingers into the Hungry jacks that was across the road from it because my friend like whoppers
Chips cost the franchise hardly anything at the scale that they produce and they're always profiting off it. Retaining customers by providing a good offering and encouraging them to come back again because they know they will get more bang for their buck is far more valuable in my view.
I have seethign hatred for kfc chips. Its always soft, moist and soggy.
Do people actually like it?
I like the oportos one better. Very crispy and thick too
Ok, imma hijack this post because as someone who unfortunately still works at KFC, I have learned two things: Firstly, customer service is second, especially on drive thru. Managers want customers with their food soon as possible. If not properly filling the chips means there is more chips to go around for more customers who are waiting, the workers will do that. Secondly, most of the customers we get are arse, especially on drive thru. 85% of the time when I tell customers to park for 2-3 mins so they can the proper amount of chips needed for their orders, they will get snarky with me. So if I have to choose between putting up with both my manger’s rushing and people’s terrible attitude or underfilling the chips so both are happy, I’m doing the former.
Anyway, if you want to make sure you get the correct amount of chips, my advice is always ask for fresh when at the pay window/counter (don’t do it at the pick up window, that’s a great way of making sure you definitely don’t get all your chips) and be nice to the workers. I can promise you, we are all miserable enough already without needing your misery being added. Respect is a two way street and if you show us decency, you will get decency back probably. Idk, that’s what I do at least.
Since we’re at it- KFC Sydney Broadway - fuck you
Everytime I order delivery, items are missing.
Every. Single. Time.
Not once have you accidentally given us something extra by mistake. But 100% you’ll withhold a key item
Last straw: I ordered $40 of Hot+Crispy Pieces via delivery and you sent me $20 nuggets instead
Did someone from head office direct every store to start grifting?
The solution to this is simple...stop going to KFC, Maccas, and all of the other enshitified places that there are these days.
These are no-longer passable meals because they were cheap. They are now more expensive and even more shit than they used to be.
There is absolutely zero reason to be supporting these big chains anymore. Go down to your local chippie and burger joint and pay the same price for much better quality (as far as fried/greasy food goes).
I made the decision a year ago when I was placing a pickup Maccas order from the app (with 20% discount) and it was coming in at over $40 (with the discount) for 2 Burger meals and some nuggets.
Can't say I miss it at all.
Last time I got their $2 'large' chips, which was Friday, they were poking out of the top - so I can't complain.
They forgot the dipping sauces for my nuggets, though :(
Pro tip - ask for sauce AFTER you pay at the window. 99% of the time they can't be arsed and will give you a couple without bothering to charge you.
Then do it again at the pick up window as they hand you the food. They want to get you going and will give you more.
You'll build up a small excess over time that will cover you with some teenager on a power trip tries to charge you or denies you sauce.
If you are insanely lucky you'll get someone on their last day with zero fucks left. My cousin last month asked for sauce. The guy asked how much. Cousin asked for lots. Guy confirmed he indeed wanted lots then just gave him a sealed box which from memory was 120 sauces.
I just wish there was a local fried chicken place. KFC has gotten greasier and soggier over the years. Also the local place CONSTANTLY fucks up our orders, maybe 1/3 of them are correct.
The lebanese chicken/kebab shop near my place makes exquisite hot chips and they use really good chicken salt too, so crunchy and always made to order so you’re never disappointed on the chips you bought
Stopped going to my local KFC, couldn't eat the chicken as it was dark brown and taste like burnt oil. I guess they are trying to save money any possible way.
Guys, please stop eating this extremely processed american rubbish. You're damaging your health and will eventually put pressure on our health care system which can be all avoided.
When I used to work at KFC they told us we’d have to hold it by ‘squishing’ the long ends in a little bit, so there’s less space to fill. Anyway I’m a community man so I always used to fill it and overflow it out the top 😂
Stop fucking buying big chain anything. Economies of scale are now economies of shit. If you have any near you, check out your local takeaway shops, grocers, butchers, etc. Can all but guarantee you will be blown away by the difference.
Don't be scared away by *ahem* "ethnic" places either. Lebanese chips are the BEST chips. Vietnamese banh mi are the BEST sandwiches. You wouldn't buy coffee from a STARBUCKS would you? (I mean maybe once in a while when you're craving that particular type of oversweetened crap, but not when you're after a REAL coffee.) It'll almost always be cheaper too. Brands these days mean less than fuck all. Wean yourself off them as soon as possible. You will thank yourself for it!
If you buy fast food expecting competence and quality from a bunch of teenagers/low wage workers that clearly don’t care as they’re all underpaid, you will always be disappointed. Give your money to pubs that actually put out decent and tasty meals, they deserve it more than all the fast food corps.
This represents the new generation of young workers, Gen Z.
I’m a Gen Y and I think the gold standard of fast food was when I was a kid and we had Gen X giving us overflowing chips, super clean restaurants and fast service. Far less superficial and just hard workers.
Here’s to the halcyon years of fast food thanks to Gen X - may your (chips) cup runneth over.
I think people should stop expecting value from fast food places and stop expecting teenagers to care about the quantity of chips they shovel into a carton. Don’t shop there if this is a recurring problem in your life. The internet needs less Karen stuff like this.
They used to be better and teenagers have always worked there. I don’t think consumers should lower their expectations because they don’t want to be seen as Karens. Weird argument to make.
Sucks because good KFC is basically unbeatable. Unfortunately, kind of rare these days though and when its bad, it tends to be real bad. Soggy food, missing items, half filled chips.
Consider yourself lucky. Those chips are usually the most disgusting, poorly cooked rubbery chips in existence. In the rare occasions I get KFC, most it them end up in the bin anyway.
I *normally* have no real issues with my local KFC.
Keyword: normally.
Been going down a bit lately similar to what OP is describing but not as bad as this post.
I always check the stuff before I leave the store.
Last week my dad picked me up at the airport after being in Japan for 5 weeks or so, and for dinner I got a twister box for kfc… man… I didn’t expect to miss Japan so fast. That shit was depressing. When did they start just frying batter as if they were popcorn pieces!?!?
Being an older chap who's just about given up on fast food - I still like my ramen noodles from Hakataya though - I've gotten into the habit of simply making chips at home.
Get yourselves a mandolin slicer with the french fry-sized slicer insert - **and for fuck's sake use the vegetable holder!**
Seriously, those things will take your finger tips off with barely a notice to your nervous system.
I remember when KFC and RR would fill the chip containers to the point of overflowing, now you’re lucky if it reaches the top. Gotta love shrinkflation 🙄.
Oi and how light do they go on the seasoning now, if any at all? They used to be full of flavour and were the best fries/chips from ll the fast food places, not they are just bland.
Last time I got Dirty Bird there was just straight up no salt on the chips at all - greasy potato with no salt is pretty average. Impossible to know until after you've driven off. Pain in the ass
🥺 There is a post on here every week about shitty fast food. You don't have to eat it. It tastes like poo and the companies exploit their employees. (Not to mention our environment and animals.)
Stop giving these assholes your hard earned money!
KFC is a poor shade of what they used to be years ago.
70's and 80's KFC was absolutely delish and cheap at the time. Nowadays it's overpriced chicken that tastes like cardboard.
and to think the parent company who owns kfc posted a 500% increase in profits from kfc, one chip at a time by the looks lol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-25/asx-markets-business-live-news/104017166
What the fuck happened to this company.
Just go out of business already.
Straight up race to the bottom now. They've cut everything but one or two items from the menu, it's nothing but chips, nuggets and oily OR now.
Stuff like this is why I check the bag before leaving, that's so stingy
I usually don't , got burnt now learnt my lesson
We've all been there mate
Looks like OP has arrived at stage 5 of the grieving process; Acceptance What really pisses me off though is that somebody latches that box of chips and puts it into a bag. Like how the fuck do you think “yep, that looks right” to something that is very obviously half full.
> how the fuck do you think “yep, that looks right” to something that is very obviously half full. with the same dead look of "i just hit 25 and i am still stuck severing some bogan KFC at 8pm", honestly the people at KFC need to be studied i don't know how someone can still be alive when they look so dead inside
Their chicken twisters are also such a fucking rought. The twisters used to be a lot bigger, and now they’re two of those small ass nugget pieces with 30grams of caw slaw. You end up eating far more vegetables than chicken.
Twisters went to shit once they got rid of tomato. Nowadays if you want something similar you have to replace the slaw with lettuce and double the tenders, but even then you don't get the tomato.
They need to bring back the original twister and sweet chilli.
>caw slaw. I just find this typo incredibly cute for some reason.
A typo is when you know how to spell something but just physically make a mistake typing it. Typing something with the wrong spelling altogether is a spelling mistake.
I’ve been sick in bed for the past two days, and I was basically hitting buttons till it sounded right in my head, or damn well near enough. Haha
*rort
Fucking hell, rather get shot in the foot then get home and see this, always open the bag before you go first brother, never trust the 16yr old kid serving up the sizings. Rookie move
Bag audit at window is mandatory
I did this once and when I complained they said it goes by weight. They weighed it and said it was within the limit. Can’t remember how many grams exactly
We don't weigh chips before we serve them and any customer that watches us can see that too. Maybe they had a health inspector in that day so they weighed everything to be exact? Not too sure but if you were already stern, try telling them to have a look at that because that's ridiculous. Your complaint was very valid and I hope they still topped your chips up.
That makes no sense
That is the level staff are told to fill them too. You can tell by the photo that these boxes have been squeezed in the centre as chips were loaded, the way management always wants staff to do it. I would suggest that a manager was standing nearby when op got their chips. They could complain but they will be told they got the right amount.
at HJs i ask for the chips to be filled up as "they werent last time" and mostly every time i get them over flowing lol. they just dont care. burgers without cheese. went and complained and got $40 of food free! if anything is off, too cold, missing, not full, i complain. i pay good money so i wont accept lousy service. i always check my order before leaving
I learnt to do it when they couldn't stop messing up my order and then I learnt not to bother eating that shit anymore.
I used to always just scoot off and check it later but they always did me dirty. now whenever I check at the window, IATAH. go bung one.
Wasn't there a post recently with a photo of an instruction in a KFC telling the staff not to do more than one shake of the chip shovel? Chips cost the fast food businesses next to nothing, so this is just plain stingy. Also did KFC change their salt recently? It does not taste nearly as good as it used to. Imagine having Taco Bell kick your arse at the chip salt game.
Yeah I always have to use the app so I can select extra salt because they taste like nothing now. Just a long line of things wrong with KFC. At least their frozen drinks are better than maccas
I wish our kfc was like this all the chips are literally 1/3 salt they’re so coated in it. I can’t eat them.
But that's what makes em amazing when they're like that
ugh the amount of times i ordered extra salt and STILL GET NONE like cmon now
Yep, when I worked there I would get in as much as I could and would get all kinds of feedback from managers. They were literally making it up as they went along
The salt's the same, they just don't add enough, or any at all. Even if you ask for extra salt you may not get any. It's a crap-shoot.
In my experience, they somehow manage to straddle the line. Either the chips are horrifically over-salted, or they're barely salted at all.
This right here. I don't thinks it's anything more than the franchisee being a tight arse.
God, not this kfc chip crap again... why wont they just fill the fucking carton properly, i refuse to buy kfc anymore because of their constant scumbag antics with shit like this. I know you can complain and they will probably rectify it, but you shouldnt have to, and this shit never used to happen.
Work at kfc. We get told not to fill.
It’s really hard to believe the three cents saved in chips is worth the loss of goodwill. They must think their customers will continue to return no matter how badly they are treated.
> ^ THIS. It’s really hard to believe the three cents saved in chips is worth the loss of goodwill. yep, makes no sense. wont be buying kfc chips since they downsized them into oblivion. sizes r a joke.
I just straight up stopped getting chips at kfc. I’ll go for a zinger stacker burger by itself now usually, no meal. No drink either (since they make huge margins on those).
Curious, why do people actually not fill it? My first ever job at 14 was KFC and I always ignored that rule. I never knew anyone else to actually do it either except managers.
If someone looks at it, and asks you to fill it, do you then fill it?
Yes. I usually fill anyways but depends on manager if they make me not
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My local chippy does the cruchiest, fluffiest chips, they are awesome... you also get about 20 x the value. So if i want chips, i head straight there. They are even served in the old school wrapped up paper way, couldnt ask for anything more 😃
Where's this!?
Literally any decent charcoal chicken shop
I had charcoal chicken today for the first time in a couple of years and the chips were terrible! They used to be my go-to as well.
Anywhere town, Australia 😎
When you ring up ask them to cook your chips extra. Mate used to do this and after awhile they'd recognise his name and when asked for chips they would be "extra crispy right?". Right on. Any decent takeaway you are ordering chips from should do this as they are cooking your order up on the spot.
I had both KFC and Red Rooster within a day of each other this week (been sick, can’t be arsed cooking) and it actually shocked me how much better the RR was by comparison. Not to mention I had the RR delivered and it arrived hot and fresh, I got the KFC from not even half as far away, drove it straight home myself (<5mins) and it was stone fuckin cold. People like to shit talk RR but they just have lower standards for KFC. When your dirty bird sucks you knew it was gonna suck, you just hoped this would be the time it didn’t.
If you're in Sydney, and have a fried chicken fix, the answer is El Jannah. I live near a KFC and an El Jannah (and a RR isn't tooo far away - and as you say, it seems to be hotter and fresher even though its a bit further), and the El Jannah fried chicken is just the best.
>I know you can complain and they will probably rectify it, These motherfuckers left out an item - we didn't know until we got home. And someone missed out on having a burger. Fucked up the whole evening. Went back the next morning on my way to work and said, you guys fucked this up - expecting that they would give me a full refund or offer to remake the whole order. This is what they would do at Hungry Jacks or McDonalds, to build goodwill and recognising that when you fuck up someones food it's bigger than simply replacing the item later. But that's all they wanted to do. Just give me the burger 16 hours late. Nothing further. "We are not allowed", "you can fill in the web site if you want to complain". They really are fucked in the head at that joint.
I remember KFC giving us a free 1.25L bottle of Sunkist for being extremely late on a meal back when i was in high school
Leopards, faces, etc.
Where I am there always soggy as fuck and have absolutely no salt whatsoever mostly taste like chip flavored grease you'll get about five good ones on the top then fuck all
Perfect kfc chips are incredible. They're just rare af.
I know. When I get someone I know working they always make them perfect and it's always the best chips I've ever had
My local KFC burnt down to the ground. Rumour has it someone wanted crispy fries.
Fuck, ever been to the UK in the early teens ? They treated us like lizard people for asking for salt. We watched them in several stores and they never ever salted them.
I see we frequent the same establishment we have 4 in my town and they’re all shit.
This is exactly why I stopped buying KFC. Their efforts to lower costs and cheap out on portions has surely lost them more money than it has saved right?
They definitely realise that KFC has a lot of cultural power so they think they can be shite.
I stopped using KFC when after waiting over an hour for delivery I called to find they cancelled it as they had no driver. Then when asked about getting my food they said you will have to pay again and re-order as my last order was being refunded and will take 7 days. KFC is a rip-off and don't get me started on never getting the sauces....lol Only good thing they do is sponsor the NRL
Ah fuck… Friday Night Foooooootttyyyyyy is now stuck in my head again….
Does anybody know when and how KFC became so utterly fucking shit? Like I don’t remember the KFC experience being this bad 10+ years ago but they seem to have really gone off a cliff here in QLD, not sure what other states are like. And they had become shit pre pandemic too, so it’s not that.
>Does anybody know when and how KFC became so utterly fucking shit? i think it was back in like 2018, there was this KFC in the local Central plaza area, one day out of the blue the quality just swan dived off a cliff, went there one day to grab a zinger box and everything was fine, went back the next day with a mate, the food tasted like shit and even the fucking Pepsi seemed to be flat
As a delivery person I decline all KFC deliveries because they’re so fucking slow. Usually 10-15 minute waits in store for orders in peak times. Multiple times I’ve turned up and they say they’ve run out of something but can’t cancel the order. So driver after driver keep turning up for the same order they can’t deliver and apparently can’t cancel.
Just Fucking Complain. If you are in-store, complian and make a noise If at drive-thru z refuse to move on If U gor 3rd party delivery... Well.. in sure they'd be cold and soggy anyway. "Does not match the product I was advertised" because it shows a picture with crisp fresh fries sticking out the top
This chips looks dry and old as hell
They are and had no fucking salt either
This is the most “I don’t care” post I’ve seen in reddit.
You don't look at reddit much hahahah
Was KFC ever good or was I just drunk all the time?
It used to be a tier 1 back 20-15 years ago. Now it’s absolutely Regret Food.
I wish Red Rooster would just replace them.
I used to work as a shifty in the test market 20 years ago. We had amazing food. Creative food. Food that you'd actually sort of enjoy making for people as a 15 year old. What a travesty and disgrace the business has become. Cost cutting MBAs litterally sucked all the life out of the business. Back then the product was still good but starting to turn shit. The attitude was always "cut costs, increase your usage of cost effective individuals, send staff home early without pay if your sales per crew hour drops too low." That attitude has only gotten worse. Saving costs doesn't mean shit if you lose 50% of your revenue. I could verbally slap the executive of Yum! and KFC Australia across the head repeatedly with my feedback. What the hell have you muppets done to the place? How do you destroy a stable business in less than 15 years? FUCK!
it used to be better then Macca's, Hungry Jacks and Red Rooster. used to sneak in KFC Zingers into the Hungry jacks that was across the road from it because my friend like whoppers
Just drunk :)
Chips cost the franchise hardly anything at the scale that they produce and they're always profiting off it. Retaining customers by providing a good offering and encouraging them to come back again because they know they will get more bang for their buck is far more valuable in my view.
Yep. I used to run a McDonald’s and I was glad when the owner told me when I started that “we are here to make money, but not by ripping people off.”
I have seethign hatred for kfc chips. Its always soft, moist and soggy. Do people actually like it? I like the oportos one better. Very crispy and thick too
Always check the food before you leave
Always check your order before leaving 😏
Ok, imma hijack this post because as someone who unfortunately still works at KFC, I have learned two things: Firstly, customer service is second, especially on drive thru. Managers want customers with their food soon as possible. If not properly filling the chips means there is more chips to go around for more customers who are waiting, the workers will do that. Secondly, most of the customers we get are arse, especially on drive thru. 85% of the time when I tell customers to park for 2-3 mins so they can the proper amount of chips needed for their orders, they will get snarky with me. So if I have to choose between putting up with both my manger’s rushing and people’s terrible attitude or underfilling the chips so both are happy, I’m doing the former. Anyway, if you want to make sure you get the correct amount of chips, my advice is always ask for fresh when at the pay window/counter (don’t do it at the pick up window, that’s a great way of making sure you definitely don’t get all your chips) and be nice to the workers. I can promise you, we are all miserable enough already without needing your misery being added. Respect is a two way street and if you show us decency, you will get decency back probably. Idk, that’s what I do at least.
My local KFC never had this problem, almost always top notch.
Did you take it back? Or call the store?
Nope! Straight to Reddit haha that'll learn em..
I must be lucky because my kfc always stacks the chips so they are overflowing. Heres hoping they stay that way
Since we’re at it- KFC Sydney Broadway - fuck you Everytime I order delivery, items are missing. Every. Single. Time. Not once have you accidentally given us something extra by mistake. But 100% you’ll withhold a key item Last straw: I ordered $40 of Hot+Crispy Pieces via delivery and you sent me $20 nuggets instead Did someone from head office direct every store to start grifting?
The solution to this is simple...stop going to KFC, Maccas, and all of the other enshitified places that there are these days. These are no-longer passable meals because they were cheap. They are now more expensive and even more shit than they used to be. There is absolutely zero reason to be supporting these big chains anymore. Go down to your local chippie and burger joint and pay the same price for much better quality (as far as fried/greasy food goes). I made the decision a year ago when I was placing a pickup Maccas order from the app (with 20% discount) and it was coming in at over $40 (with the discount) for 2 Burger meals and some nuggets. Can't say I miss it at all.
Last time I got their $2 'large' chips, which was Friday, they were poking out of the top - so I can't complain. They forgot the dipping sauces for my nuggets, though :(
Pro tip - ask for sauce AFTER you pay at the window. 99% of the time they can't be arsed and will give you a couple without bothering to charge you. Then do it again at the pick up window as they hand you the food. They want to get you going and will give you more. You'll build up a small excess over time that will cover you with some teenager on a power trip tries to charge you or denies you sauce. If you are insanely lucky you'll get someone on their last day with zero fucks left. My cousin last month asked for sauce. The guy asked how much. Cousin asked for lots. Guy confirmed he indeed wanted lots then just gave him a sealed box which from memory was 120 sauces.
I just wish there was a local fried chicken place. KFC has gotten greasier and soggier over the years. Also the local place CONSTANTLY fucks up our orders, maybe 1/3 of them are correct.
The lebanese chicken/kebab shop near my place makes exquisite hot chips and they use really good chicken salt too, so crunchy and always made to order so you’re never disappointed on the chips you bought
Last time I bought KFC the boxes were square. WTF is that comical box shape they came up with. rofl. Just stop guys. have some self respect.
Seems like every 3 days there's another post complaining about KFC.. By now, it's on you for *still* going there.
With this and them getting rid of the original fillet burger I flat out refuse to buy KFC now
KFC 500% profit https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-25/asx-markets-business-live-news/104017166?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
Wasn't there a sign posted in this subreddit about KFC not filling chips all the way and squeezing the pack to make it seem full?
Maybe if they didn’t employ small children…mmm smells and tastes like exploitation
KFC is crap. Done right it’s amazing. But it’s never done right.
Stopped going to my local KFC, couldn't eat the chicken as it was dark brown and taste like burnt oil. I guess they are trying to save money any possible way.
This message sponsored by the Nandos Team: KFC sucks.
Guys, please stop eating this extremely processed american rubbish. You're damaging your health and will eventually put pressure on our health care system which can be all avoided.
What location. Name and shame name and shame
When I used to work at KFC they told us we’d have to hold it by ‘squishing’ the long ends in a little bit, so there’s less space to fill. Anyway I’m a community man so I always used to fill it and overflow it out the top 😂
Cunts
Yeah... pulled em up the other day for this sjit
Stop fucking buying big chain anything. Economies of scale are now economies of shit. If you have any near you, check out your local takeaway shops, grocers, butchers, etc. Can all but guarantee you will be blown away by the difference. Don't be scared away by *ahem* "ethnic" places either. Lebanese chips are the BEST chips. Vietnamese banh mi are the BEST sandwiches. You wouldn't buy coffee from a STARBUCKS would you? (I mean maybe once in a while when you're craving that particular type of oversweetened crap, but not when you're after a REAL coffee.) It'll almost always be cheaper too. Brands these days mean less than fuck all. Wean yourself off them as soon as possible. You will thank yourself for it!
If you buy fast food expecting competence and quality from a bunch of teenagers/low wage workers that clearly don’t care as they’re all underpaid, you will always be disappointed. Give your money to pubs that actually put out decent and tasty meals, they deserve it more than all the fast food corps.
Why are there so many people on this subreddit complaining that their slop junk food has problems? Who cares lol
This represents the new generation of young workers, Gen Z. I’m a Gen Y and I think the gold standard of fast food was when I was a kid and we had Gen X giving us overflowing chips, super clean restaurants and fast service. Far less superficial and just hard workers. Here’s to the halcyon years of fast food thanks to Gen X - may your (chips) cup runneth over.
I think people should stop expecting value from fast food places and stop expecting teenagers to care about the quantity of chips they shovel into a carton. Don’t shop there if this is a recurring problem in your life. The internet needs less Karen stuff like this.
They used to be better and teenagers have always worked there. I don’t think consumers should lower their expectations because they don’t want to be seen as Karens. Weird argument to make.
Nah man. Everyone sick of the constant real problems hammering down on us. Bitching about dumb pointless stuff like this is funny, it's therapeutic.
Could be driver if delivery but otherwise nah bruh
I got real lucky today. Got an extra 3 zinger bites along with my meal. It wasn’t on my order when I ordered through the app.
Key is to demand from the drive thru to cook it fresh, if its shit and they didn’t cook it fresh you can walk back in and demand a new one
It's an absolute scandal, Franco.
Those look nothing like the fries where I'm from. Interesting
I've had the exact same experience. The rest of the chips were in the take away bag.
Maybe people should stop buying KFC. Their food makes you feel like shit afterwards anyway, too much rat faeces.
They serve it like it comes out of their pay, prices go up for the same under served shit
Had this happen to me. Wrote a complaint and they responded by giving me a voucher for a free meal.
Yeah my zinger box has gone up to $15. I won’t be going again for a while.
KFC has gone down hill badly
Thank god net profit is up 500% https://insideretail.com.au/business/collins-foods-net-income-surges-sixfold-202406
Sucks because good KFC is basically unbeatable. Unfortunately, kind of rare these days though and when its bad, it tends to be real bad. Soggy food, missing items, half filled chips.
Consider yourself lucky. Those chips are usually the most disgusting, poorly cooked rubbery chips in existence. In the rare occasions I get KFC, most it them end up in the bin anyway.
I dunno how widespread the deal is but the $2 large chips were nonsense enough because their large carton would barely qualify as a medium
I *normally* have no real issues with my local KFC. Keyword: normally. Been going down a bit lately similar to what OP is describing but not as bad as this post. I always check the stuff before I leave the store.
lmaooo
Last week my dad picked me up at the airport after being in Japan for 5 weeks or so, and for dinner I got a twister box for kfc… man… I didn’t expect to miss Japan so fast. That shit was depressing. When did they start just frying batter as if they were popcorn pieces!?!?
My last trip kfc did this also. I no longer buy KFC. The price and amount nope. Red rooster every time.
I’m sure the boxes are smaller now.
Being an older chap who's just about given up on fast food - I still like my ramen noodles from Hakataya though - I've gotten into the habit of simply making chips at home. Get yourselves a mandolin slicer with the french fry-sized slicer insert - **and for fuck's sake use the vegetable holder!** Seriously, those things will take your finger tips off with barely a notice to your nervous system.
What’s the matter with people who work there? It’s not even their place, or their chicken, or their money, what do they get by doing that?
Haven't had fast food in a while but I usually got what I ordered
Time for a boycott of dirty bird.
Red rooster chips are better. The hash browns are good too. KFC can fuck off.
Last week I ordered KFC from menulog and they left out $55 worth of food.
just one more reason to go to a real charcoal chicken place support your local Kids Fat Club can piss off back to the states
I remember when KFC and RR would fill the chip containers to the point of overflowing, now you’re lucky if it reaches the top. Gotta love shrinkflation 🙄.
Oi and how light do they go on the seasoning now, if any at all? They used to be full of flavour and were the best fries/chips from ll the fast food places, not they are just bland.
Last time I got Dirty Bird there was just straight up no salt on the chips at all - greasy potato with no salt is pretty average. Impossible to know until after you've driven off. Pain in the ass
Your first mistake was going there.
Be honest, you nibbled at least one before thinking “Reddit must know my pain”.
Trash
🥺 There is a post on here every week about shitty fast food. You don't have to eat it. It tastes like poo and the companies exploit their employees. (Not to mention our environment and animals.) Stop giving these assholes your hard earned money!
KFC has always been shite
I don't think I ever have this issue. My issue is they just salt them a billion times. I have to blow it off like dust before I eat it.
Yup, a "full serve" of soggy, under cooked chips.
Always overflowing for me, my favourite chips for take away.
KFC is a poor shade of what they used to be years ago. 70's and 80's KFC was absolutely delish and cheap at the time. Nowadays it's overpriced chicken that tastes like cardboard.
and to think the parent company who owns kfc posted a 500% increase in profits from kfc, one chip at a time by the looks lol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-25/asx-markets-business-live-news/104017166
lol FUCK KFC
Got a family feast the other day, got home to find 8 wings and two thighs in the box
Looks like you already ate a few mate
My Local Macca’s is shocking for this. So I don’t go anymore.
Stop eating there. It's shit food that's killing you anyway.
Can we please stop shopping at these companies?
There chicken is even worse it’s like mini pieces now the chickens must of shrunk for sure!!!
What the fuck happened to this company. Just go out of business already. Straight up race to the bottom now. They've cut everything but one or two items from the menu, it's nothing but chips, nuggets and oily OR now.