After more than a year since my previous review, I was in the neighborhood near dinner time, trying to decide what to bring home for dinner. I had driven by KFC many times in the last year, and recently I noticed that they usually seemed to be open during their posted hours, which is huge for them. A year ago, they were just opening and closing at random times. Once I was in a long line waiting my turn, and about halfway through the drive-thru line, a manager came out to each car telling us they were closing several hours early and wouldn't be filling any more orders. Please see my previous review for all of the other outrageous things I've seen them pull.
After well over a year had passed, I decided to see if anything had changed. They hadn't closed yet, so somebody must be happy. This year, I had a couple of okay experiences, although twice in a row they weren't offering a choice between original or extra crispy. They'd just tell YOU at the speaker what THEY had felt like making that day and that's what you could order. This happened two visits in a row. Once, they only had original and once they only had extra crispy. I like them both, so I just took what they felt like giving me both times. Today, I decided to take my chances once again, but this will probably be the last time. This place has no intention of getting any better.
I ordered a 12-piece meal, extra crispy, and told the young man which sides I wanted. He gave me my total and asked if I wanted to round up for the KFC Foundation. I will usually round up whenever I'm asked if it's for charity, so I said yes. I got to the window and a young woman told me my total (without rounding up for the charity). I said, "And I rounded up." She said, "Oh, you wanted to round up?" I said, "Yeah, that's what I told the man on the speaker." She said okay, closed the window for a minute, opened it again and explained that she was going to give me my sides and have me pull into a parking space, because they were waiting on the chicken. I said sure, although I didn't love the idea, because if you've ever been to this particular KFC you know that their parking lot is a tiny narrow thing where you and the drive-thru people are kind of competing for space. You back out of one of those parking spaces at your own risk, but I did as I was told. I figured, "Fresh chicken just out of the oven. That will be good at least."
Eventually, she brought out the chicken and my receipt (which had not been rounded up - no skin off my nose, I guess, it's your charity) and told me that the cook had decided to only make the dark meat in original recipe. Say what now?!?!? She asked if that would be okay, something she probably should have done before I left the window. I just wanted out of there at this point, so I said sure and took the chicken. My husband prefers dark meat, and I prefer white, so he would just get original and I would get crispy, which was what I wanted anyway. I took the food home. What she had told me was ass backward. The white was original and the dark was crispy. At this point, I was just like, Geez, whatever. I'm done.
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