Sounds like there needs to be a wholesale cleansing of the upper floor at KFC.

I really question the basic management skills of some companies. Example: a very popular local hamburger chain in OKC offered half price burgers during the super bowl. Of course, they ran out of meat. They did not offer rainchecks on the spot, but had to be contacted through their website. They did offer a $5 gift card, but that did not cover the instance where you were buying large numbers of burgers to feed a super bowl party.

Yeah, but where is the part about how Obama is the worst president ever?

Two words come to mind reading this: New Coke.

WC: "Yeah, but where is the part about how Obama is the worst president ever?"

You needed to read all the way to the end WC:

"poor planning and dependence on spin is eventually just self-destructive and futile"

Sound familiar? Remind you of any current American Presidential administrations? No? It sure does to me.

I still want a Captain D's near my house...

What, they were using the Obama administration as a role model?

I don't go to KFC much. Maybe 2 or 3 times a year. Now that they've removed the trans-fats, their fried chicken is not as good. I went in to sample the grilled chicken about a week ago. It was so below average I wondered how much test marketing they did.

The other reason I pretty much never eat there is every time I go they are out of chicken and it's a 15 minute wait. It boggles my mind that a chicken place runs out of chicken.

Well, I don't go to KFC as much as I used to because the chicken is really greasy. The novelty in the quality is not the same, either. My solution, mainly to save money in these economic times was to find the recipe and slow-bake it so the juices come to the surface. If in a hurry, I'll fry it and its still not as greasy as the stuff in the restaurant. I don't know if anyone is interested, but here is the original recipe:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12874797/Original-Kentucky-Fried-Chicken-Coating-Secret-Ingredients

OMG LAMEDUSA, ZOMBIE COLONEL SANDERS IS GOING TO KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!!!!

(Thanks for the recipe--the chicken probably tastes much better if good quality meat is used instead of the rubber crap they serve in their "restaurants".)

I wonder what Bojangles' stock is doing.

I'd rather eat "fried chicken" at most any truck stop than KFC, but Bojangles, and Popeyes is pretty good. Dunno anything about Church's that I can remember.

Bojangles in South Boston is my favorite FFC (Fast Fried Chicken) place I think.

Popeye's chicken is horrible. Only hard-core ACORN activists eat there.

Church's is worse. Only people looking to feed their cats buy there

In the first place, people began complaining from the start that they could not get the coupons to print. It should be noted that KFC neither acknowledged this problem, nor made any effort to address it.

The second sentence is incorrect. When the "bricks" coupons failed to print someone at kfc marketing got the bright idea to post a pdf of the coupon on the unthinkkfc website. This led to mass printings.

"Bricks" (couponsinc) is designed to leave a a trace on your computer. The original 4 per computer limit may have been manageable. Combining a pdf with alike codes, franchises that has no idea what is going on and unlimited prints added up to some very bad publicity for both KFC and Oprah.

It also doesn't help that the grilled chicken really is not very good.

I have the original "apology" that was posted on the Oprah site (concerning the pdf) posted on my blog here . Needless to say this information has been stricken from Oprah's site.

I've always liked the chicken at KFC, new grease and all. The sides and such are pretty good as well. I stopped going becuase I got tired of the lousy attitude of the employees, lack of food and dirty stores. In our local KFC the only time you got reasonable service was wen the manager was physically present. Otherwise, no!

The first time I ate at a Popeye's, the chicken still had a few feathers on it. I waited like 15 years before I tried it again. Since then, I have had good success.

Dear Leader is not pleased with KFC.

"Popeye's chicken is horrible. Only hard-core ACORN activists eat there."

Dude, them's fightin' words!

Popeye's chicken is a completely separate food group. After my first visit to Popeye's, I never went back to KFC. Never mind that they have NEVER gotten my order right, I don't even care. It's just the best chicken evah. And if LaMedusa can get me THAT recipe, well...

DJ,

here an alternative thought. I think the guys at KFC are actually pretty smart.

They have watched the rule of law get trampled by the Obama administration, and have figured out that running a business is going to get much more painful over the next 4 years. And seeing the writing on the wall (3 million private sector jobs lost since january, while well over 100,000 new government employees have been hired), they want to switch to a career in government.

I think this stunt was to show their suitability to work in the Obama Administration!

Maybe they're bucking for a bailout.

Ad yet another company too stupid to get out of its own way. The trick is to Under Promise and Over Deliver. Get it backwards and you're toast.

I work at KFC. Let me tell you, this whole coupon fiasco was nothing but hell for KFC workers. My particular store is a franchise, which means it is owned by an individual rather than directly by KFC. Corporate did not reimburse our franchise for the cost of this promotion, which means every free meal came out of the owner's pocket.

Let me assure you, nobody who actually works in a KFC thought this was a good idea. There is no way possible that we can keep that much chicken cooked to feed that many people; it was madness to try.

I have been very honest with my customers. I told them how I felt about the promotion when they asked my opinion, and I told them what corporate is trying to deny about the violence. When they asked why we stopped honoring the coupons, I told them the truth.

It was very embarassing to have to tell my customers "Sorry, we are out of chicken." That actually happened several times. Unlike most fast food joints, we can't have more of our main product ready in just a few minutes; prep time plus cook time is probably 25-30 minutes for a tray of chicken, assuming that everything in the kitchen is running smoothly (rarely is that the case).

I'm one of the few non-management employees that actually cares about my job and sees it as more than just a paycheck. This entire promotion has made me just about hate my job. If corporate ever does something this monumentally retarded again, I will tell them where they can put their chicken as I turn in my hat.

"This being America, denial of the previously unknown right to free chicken led to reports of violence."

It's funny that Kim can say things like the above quote, but if someone utters a comment about not being 100% proud of America 100% of the time without exception or pause, they're a crazy America hating liberal. Hypocrisy? You betcha!

Jake, Kim didn't say it, DJ did. And what has your broad-brushing statement about "someone" not being "100 percent proud of America" got to do with DJ's post about a specific promo mishap and the public's reaction?

@LaMedusa -- oops, thanks for the DJ vs. Kim correction.

As far as the proud comment... surely you remember the blowup over Michelle Obama's comment about being proud of her country. Surely you're seen any number of bloggers and/or commenters here call people who say that Americans might be doing something wrong or less than perfect "anti-American"?

I just think it's amusing that when someone says it other than the Golden Bloggers, it's anti-American. When they say it, it's just good observation.

My point was your broad brushing, Jake, which you just remedied with an example. I have to say, though, your Michelle comparison still doesn't have much to do with a corporate screw up. And there you go again with "the Golden bloggers", as if they are some species of blogger that exists only to be right all the time. Who the hell are they?

Michelle said it was the first time she felt proud of her country, implying that because Obama was nominated, it meant something to her personally. It really sounded like she had no reason to be proud before, and that is what people were in an uproar about. You sound like you want the blogger to be a hypocrite or just plain wrong for a change, and using an off the wall comparison to follow up with that viewpoint. Seriously, I think you are trying way to hard to be a remedial.

Congratulations, Jake, on derailing the thread again in your quest to seek out and destroy hypocrisy!TM even if it has to be in a thread about a chicken restaurant.

Jake,
So the assumption is you agree with Michelle
Obamas' statement of finally being proud of
America. Is that your stand?
Are you getting the same free full ride that she
and Barack have recieved all of their lives?
Does this mean you wouldn't know dirty fingernails if they were yours?
/sarc

@maggie - That's an interesting claim...how do you figure the Obama's got a free ride all their lives?

Jake,
By reading current bios on both of them.

I didn't get to use my coupon.