This KFC needs immediate help. I contacted the KFC Corporation because I am seriously worried about this branch. I'm a huge KFC fan, and I continue to hope this place will improve, as I live just down the street, but sadly it's as if the management or owners of this particular KFC just don't seem to care.
Last night I went there, hoping to get some good chicken (sometimes it's good, it's hit and miss at this branch).
I ordered the 3 piece chicken tenders, and popcorn chicken, 2 mashed potatoes, 1 cole slaw and 2 biscuits, as well as a Dr. Pepper.
I'm going to be completely honest, so please keep on reading.
First thing is the wait is always 10 minutes in this drive through (no joke), but I'm used to it.
Next, I get to the window and there are only 2 employees there. The lady ringing me up (who was also doing the cooking) and the young man sweeping the restaurant floors and cleaning the tables. He kept walking to the back with the broom and I think he was being trained.
Anyways... so the nice lady (she was really nice) hands me the Dr. Pepper, and closes the window. I sit there waiting. I decide to take a drink of the Dr. Pepper, it had no flavor, just carbonated water. No big deal, this happens frequently at fast food restaurants, so I wasn't upset at all, I just waited til she returned to tell her.
During the time I sat there I watched her go to cook, and then return to the register and take orders from the cars piling up behind me. She was doing it all. She finally came back to the window 6 minutes later and handed me the bag of food, and I told her the Dr. Pepper was just carbonated water, so she apologized and asked if I wanted something different. I really wanted Dr. Pepper, but there was a huge line of cars behind me and I could tell she was doing it all by herself, so I simply said "Give me Pepsi, that is fine." She left the window and came back in a moment and handed me the drink, which I thought was empty. I just said "Thanks" and drove off. I didn't want to wait any more.
When I got home, I looked inside the cup of Pepsi and found it was only half full. Whatever, I don't care, I just wanted to get out of the line and I'm not a fan of Pepsi at all, so no biggie. In England and Wales (in the UK) it's common practice to only get a half a cup of drink so I didn't really care, to be honest, I was not concerned.
What I found in the bag was more of a shock.
I opened up the first container of mashed potatoes and saw only gravy. What was this? No mashed potatoes? I stuck in my spork and fished out a small lump of mashed potatoes the size of a teaspoon sunk at the bottom of a container of gravy. Um, really? Yes.... Really.
I opened the other container of gravy, and it was worse. It had less than a spoonfull of mashed potatoes. I stirred it up and then lifted a spork full and it was pure soup. This was gravy soup... seriously, there wasn't even enough mashed potatoes in the gravy to thicken it at all. It was pure gravy soup. That was gross, I couldn't eat that. So I figured I could at least dip my bread in it, or my chicken.
The chicken popcorn was a tiny little mini container with about 10 pieces of the hardest round little over fried things I ever saw. I bit into one and it was hard as a rock. I looked inside and I didn't even see any chicken. It was pure dough, deep fried in little balls. This was not good.
I reached in and grabbed a chicken tender. Okay, they were not crispy at all. They were just very dried out, and bland. I ate a piece and made a face. My 20 year old daughter looked at me and said what's wrong? I handed her a piece of the chicken and she tried it. She said "Eww, that KFC is gross!"
I reached in the bag looking for the cole slaw, one of the things I figured they had to get right, because they do have the best cole slaw, but in fact there was no cole slaw in the bag, instead there was a container of mac-n-cheese, which I did not order. My daughter got excited. She loves mac-n-cheese.
I gave it to her. She ate it and said it wasn't even good, it tasted really old.
I honestly don't know what is going on at this KFC.... but I want with all my heart for this KFC to improve. I really love KFC, but I can't eat this crap they are giving me at this KFC! Please, someone help this place! read more