Look, my expectations for KFC are average at best. The food is average (but I will not-so-secretly admit that it's a craving that I have from time to time). The service is average, sometimes better than average (though not usually). The portions are below average. But it is what it is.
But I experienced an all-time low this visit.
Waited in the drive thru.... got to the speaker... ordered a $20 fill-up... they didn't have any breasts and probably not enough chicken to cover it. It'll be a 10 min wait. So I pull ahead and wait in the parking lot for about 15 min. I schlep my family into the restaurant because now the drive-thru is about 6 people deep and nobody has time for that nonsense. After all, I had already been waiting 15 min + the time I'll never get back from my initial wait in the drive-thru.
Picture it. I get inside, there are people "peppered" all over the place near the counter but NOTHING is happening. No food is being slung about, no bags of biscuits or boxes of chicken being served. The guy running the register could have only been moving slower if he was walking backwards. He walked outside to (evidently) deliver food to a car out there as if he had cement blocks on his feet. He came back in the same way (all the while, the register was unattended - no one to take my order).
I finally get his attention (because, again, sloth...) and he says, "Oh, we're out of chicken. We can't fill your order for another 15 min or so" I'm sorry. What? That was the story about 20 min ago now. So I ask for extra crispy (desperate times) and he says, "Oh, that will probably be more like 20-25 minutes."
Guys. THEY WERE OUT OF CHICKEN.
They had loud (LOUD) music playing in the kitchen. No one seemed to give a flying turkey that they had no chicken. Was no one watching the inventory levels of the main product that they sell?
A sweet older woman (I say sweet because she wasn't losing her ever loving mind like most people would be) had mentioned to the man next to her, "Oh, my receipt says I paid at 5:45 and my order still isn't ready [at 6:14!]. People, this is absurd.
We left. On our way out, I noticed the drive-thru was a hot mess of cars with more than one of them with their reverse lights on - clearly trying to get out of the trap that is their chicken-less drive-thru (you see, once you are IN the drive-thru, you have no way out other than backing out or waiting to get through the entire line). So many people must have been ticked that they couldn't get anything to eat!
My husband got word from me that Shrewsbury was seriously slacking so he drove all the way to MILFORD to get KFC - they had chicken.
Probably won't be back. read more