Why does this place stay open at night? This is the third time in a row that I have gone in after work (usually about 1 hour to 1/2 hour before they close) and asked for a bucket of chicken, only to be told that they none.
The first time, I just left disgusted.
The second time when I said, you have no chicken?! They said, Well, we have chicken but there is none cooked. When I said I would wait, they said it wouldn’t be ready until after their close time, so they couldn’t do it. So, once again, I left disgusted.
But this time, I said, Why do you stay open, if you aren’t going to serve chicken? They said, well, we have other stuff. So, I said, Oh. Well, then, I’d like to order a pizza. They said, We don’t have pizza. So I said, well then, give me a hamburger. They said, We don’t serve hamburgers here. So I said, Well, what do you serve here? They said, Chicken.
I couldn’t help myself, I had to say it, Well then, I’ll have chicken. They said, We have no chicken.
I know it sounds too ridiculous to be true, but it really went down this way. At least when I left this time, I left laughing.
Still, never again.—There’s a hole in the bucket
This article appears in Apr 8-14, 2010.
you should be disgusted and keep walking, go buy a can of chick peas or naners
Can of chick peas would hurt more if you bounced it off this ungrateful skell’s head. Nourish the soul as well as the corpus delecti.
…and I shouldn’t be playing this game in hour 9 of an 11 hr. work day. I thought I was responding to the post about the street trash trashing the charity fruit. Getting too old and cranky for this shit.
ha ha ha…Classic blunder. It’s right up there with never get involved in a land war in Asia or the only slightly less well known: Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Oh Miles, thanks for the PB reference!
INCONCEIVABLE! Thanks Miles, needed a giggle.Does this mean the Provincial Governemtn will start privatizing liquor stores now that they’ve obviously nationalized Kentucky-Yucky.
Perhaps a complaint to the head office will ensure that the chicken restaurant has a supply of cooked chicken prepared before it becomes too late to fry more before closing. Someone at that outlet has their priorities confused if they can’t figure out how to successfully run their kitchen.
I have another movie reference (that went through my mind when I got a 20 piece bucket only to find out when I got home that they gave me 11 wings):
“They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru! They know you’re gonna be miles away before you find out you got fucked! They know you’re not gonna turn around and go back”
I love that scene. Goes through my head every time my order gets mixed up.
I now people who work at food joints that are set up so that the place has to strictly stay open until closing time but they don’t pay the employees for any extra time they spend after it officially closes to the public, so that the employees have to start the closing process early while they are still open, and things like this happen.
fizz nailed a lot of it. Food operations also put emphasis on keeping shrink / waste down. Avoiding it where possible because it eats into the bottom line.
Disgruntled customers who don’t return eat into the bottom line a lot further. Nothing wrong with donating extras to the foodbank as the Col. Cluck at my former town of residence in Ontario does.
Lets just turn all the KFC’s into medical marijuana stores…
don’t know who told you that or why, but someone is deffinately wrong here. i know for a fact, that you can get this stuff right up to 15 minutes before closing time. yes, i used to work there at one time.takes all of 5 minutes to get chicken fried,3 minutes for fries, and less than 1 minute for gravy. anything else gets dumped in bowls, cups, or whatever. i smell bullshit here.
yea I went to a bank once and they were all “were all out of money sir” so I just smiled and said well that’s perfectly understandable carry on 🙂
True Oceanlady, disgruntled employees can effect the bottom line. But to a giant like this, it really isn’t hurting them.
Also, there’s no incentive for the late shift workers to go out of their way to provide excellent customer service to people who come in half an hour before closing. They just want to finish closing, and not have to work overtime without getting paid. I’m sure they figure that this giant company can afford a pissed off customer or two, and they’d be right. If I worked there, I probably wouldn’t accommodate the OP if it meant I had to stay late and not get paid.
PLUS the customer service standards for fast food joints is general is extremely low compared to other, smaller restaurants where you spend more than three minutes talking to the employees… especially half an hour before closing when the manager isn’t around.
After working jobs where I had to close by a certain time, without pay after that time… I understand what it’s like to have to try and juggle closing and customers at the same time, you can’t do both. I never walk into a store or food joint close to closing time, (yes half an hour IS close to closing time) I think it’s rude. And yes “technically” they should be able to accommodate you since they’re officially open, but once you’re in the staff’s position you understand why it’s rude.
And the bigger the company is, the harder it is to get them to change their closing policies and shift times.
this is a very common situation that i have experienced too. except i’m the one saying that there is no chicken. it’s great fun. telling people that there is no chicken. i’d never say that we wouldn’t cook it. even if it kept us open. but unfortunately we have bosses in offices that have these ideas. and their ideas revolve primarily around the money. the money. do you know the the guys in the office talk to us about? the money. we have to, every single night, write out a detailed report of the stock that we have and the things we have sold. everything that we cook should be sold. if we close with chicken left over. money lost. do you know what i hear about on the weekly conference call? money. and chicken efficiencies. an hours worth of it. 96% efficiency!?!? that is trouble. the limit is 98%. and that is just acceptable.
it’s unfortunate. i feel for the people that leave in disgust. usually.
and when that person said that they have other stuff, they probably meant that there are various sandwiches and like, that stuff. those things that people seem to love. when the person said that they were out of chicken, they probably just meant pieces of chicken. rather than every single thing that they sell that is also made of chicken.
but i do appologize. on behalf of that place. on behalf of those people that try very hard to make sure things go smoothly and everyone is happy. it just get’s difficult in that last hour. tuesday is the worst.
Yeah i thought it was pretty stupid that the OP was asking for pizza and hamburgers… they were either being a smartass or just really really thick.
I choose to believe the latter… stupid idiot.
Why would waste their money on the squab they serve because it ain’t big enough to be chicken.
Nah, it’s just selectively bred chicken, BT. They’re meant to be small, have giant breasts, and have little to no feathers. Creepy shit to look at.
Anyhoo, I have to say that this should be a lesson to you OP; don’t eat KFC chicken. Or fried chicken in general. That stuff, beyond anything else in the fast food universe, is like the meth of the fast food world.
I buy it only when pressed. I can eat most anything but textures get me, and their chicken can be so slimy.
The whole ♪ There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza ♪ dialogue was funny.
well the good news about this post…is it & the comments have turn me off eating any lunch ! Just the thought of that garbage, makes my guts cringe !!
…then mend it dear Henry dear Henry dear Henry then mend it dear Henry dear Henry mend it!
with what shall I mend it dear Liza dear Liza with what shall I mend it dear Liza with what?
with a straw dear Henry dear Henry dear Henry with a straw dear Henry dear Henry a straw!
the straw is too long dear Liza dear… bah fuck it!
You should not be eating after 8pm…..that finger lickin’ goodness goes straight to your gut.
fucktucky chicken has a new gourmand’s delight…a sandwich with no bread, the chicken is the bread! low on carbs, teehee
They stole that idea from Tracy Jordan’s Meat machine.
when i first started reading the coast i swear there was an identical (very valid) bitch…
one of my friends used to work the counter at an “11 herbs and spices” chicken place and they would estimate how much chicken they would need for the last 1-2 hours, and put the rest away.
In the last 1/2 hour they would clean, shut off the fryers and not be at all prepared if anyone ordered a bucket. 3 or 4 pieces maybe but not a bucket.
She would also show up at parties, sometimes witha bucket of chicken because the staff would cook “extra” and end up with leftovers that they didn’t want to throw out.
Funny…they only ever ended up with buckets of extra cooked chicken on Friday and Saturday nights.
She was very popular at parties, expecially with the stoner crowd
We used to catch flies and put them in the batter.
El, we were popular at parties too, we always brought sandwiches, we just didn’t tell anyone we made them from cat food. Mmmm tuna…