I was second in line to place my order about 4:00 pm. After the clerk took the order from the people in front of me, she walked away and did not acknowledge me. I must have waited at least 8 minutes before I asked the clerk if she intended to take my order.
After the clerk took my simple two item order, she asked me to take a seat in the restaurant, and she would bring me my order.
I must have waited at least 15 minutes without getting my order. The customer who made an order before me, indicated that the employees were very rude and for me to be aware.
I asked the clerk about 20 minutes after I placed my order, when my order would be completed since I witnessed at least three cars complete their orders in the drive through.
Again she asked me to take a seat in the dirty tabled restaurant to receive my order. I learned that the chicken sandwich was completed but the cooks had ignored the order to cook the shrimp. She informed me that I would need to wait another 10 to 15 minutes.
At this point, I was annoyed in the rudeness, laziness and filthiness of the employees and management of this restaurant. I state this because I first hand watched the Manager Kelly take her hair down, comb her hair with her fingers and then braid her hair all while hovering over all the prepared food area.
When I brought this to the clerks attention, another clerk, around 50 years old with a gap between her teeth rudely informed me that the manager playing with her hair around the food was completely fine. She also stated that Kelly washed her hands afterwards.
I replied that washing her hands afterwards was irrelevant, and the fact that she combed her hair over the prepared food was the issue. Additionally, the long wait to place order and to prepare order was unacceptable for a fast food establishment.
The 50 year year old female with the gap in her front tooth, thought I had left and stopped production to inform Kelly, the Manager, about how proud she was to insult me and to respond in a very aggressive and rude manner. I made her aware that I was standing there listening to her rudeness and lack of customer assistance.
Kelly informed me as the manager, she was not required to wear headware to prevent her hair from falling in the food. I informed her that the lack of a hat was not the issue. The issue was that she actually combed her hair and braided in the food preparation area and lack of teamwork in placing orders and delivering the orders.
Kelly and the employees believe that as long as Kelly washed her hands afterwards, playing with her hair, over the food preparation area was acceptable.
Kelly lacked leadership as she allowed her employees to walk all over her. She was timid and depended on her employees to GANG up against the customers.
The female clerk, with the gap in her front teeth, encouraged all the employees to argue, conduct rudeness, and poor customer service to all the customer who were present in the lobby waiting to place their orders.
This was my first visit to any Popeye restaurant, believe me, due to its ghetto mentality, it will be my last.
My next step is to report this location to health department.
I intentions were simply to order dinner for my two grandchildren, not to be abused by an organization where I was paying services.
This communication DOES NOT account for 100% of the rudeness coming from the employees. It simply highlights the details of Kelly and the clerk with the GAP in her front teeth who also wore large black glasses read more