What, no KFC stories??

[Ben_Who]

I didn't experience that nightmare at my local. I didn't know whether the other locations had stopped honoring the coupons because they'd run out of stock, or because of a decree from Corporate - anyone know if people were being turned away from locations that still had stock? - but I had no problem using the coupon.

You'd have laughed. After reading about it in the papers, I was the complete antithesis of SC. I went in very humbly, shoulders slouched, and handed across the coupon and meekly said, "Excuse me, do you still honor these?"

The Governor of the debtors prison then cried out, in shock and outrage, "MORE???"

...No, that was a movie. What happened was they honored the coupon, though I read a thing online LATER that said that they'd been instructed not to by Corporate. Maybe word hadn't gotten out yet or maybe they figured they had ample inventory to feed the masses until they were forced otherwise.

The stuff isn't bad, but give me fried any day.

Love, Who?

[Blade_Raver]

Back in '96-97 (I can't remember which) I worked at KFC for about 3-4 months..

I observed the following:

1) Last week's chicken is in today's chicken pot pies. At the end of every day, they take all the unsold chicken, pick the meat off the bones, place it in a container and put it in the walk-in freezer shelf.

2) Frozen biscuit hockey with squeegy hockey sticks is always fun! (Don't worry, they throw the biscuit away when playtime is over.

3) Their BBQ sauce is toxic and sits in a warm crockpot. The fumes from that while doing dishes made me sick. They may have switched to all BBQ sauce packets now.

4) The rotisserie machine needed to be broken down and washed every night.. it was a pain in the arse... not to mention that it didn't cooldown quickly enough and burned when the parts (including the big wheels on either side) were taken down and put in the dish water.

5) The place didn't generate enough hot water to wash all the dishes.

6) At the end of the night, they break down the station to do the chicken strips 30 mins early. Anyone who orders chicken strips by that time is just asking for health issues. They pull the tubs of breading out and place them on the floor, along with the bucket of water (dip in breading, dip in water, dip back in breading, fry them)

7) Original Recipe chicken and Extra Tasty Crispy chicken are fried differently. Original Recipe chicken is fried in their own cages... while the extra tasty crispy chicken is dipped in the same batter as the chicken strips, dunked in water, put back into the breading, then fried in an open fryer (the same one that does potato wedges and buffalo strips)

8) They would do an oil and filter replacement once every week on both fryers.

9) I cooked chicken and cleaned the place... making $5.50/hr...

10) I definitely don't want to go back there and anyone who works there has my with putting up with all the crap that goes with that place.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Meh I tend to avoid my local Clunkin' Bell (credit to Jay 2K Winger ) as they never make my order right and I'm not a big fan of KFC either so I didn't know about the coupon fiasco till this morning when someone metioned it at work. I gotta say I'm glad, no I'm extatic I don't work for KFC right now.

Cluckin' Bell, not Clunkin' Bell, but thanks.

[Digitalpotato]

My guess is that they're actually too tired from the endless swarms of customers. Fried chicken never got a thumbs down from children and adults alike.

[sixums]

Did anyone see the commercials on TV? I wasn't paying attention to it until I heard someone talking about how they were giving out rain checks for their coupons since they couldn't keep up with the demand. That caught my attention. I had to because it wasn't even two days after the promotion came out.

[Kali]

Anyone care to explain what the heck everyone is talking about? :P

[tropicsgoddess]

Anyone care to explain what the heck everyone is talking about? :P

It's a special for that grilled chicken they have out. I just wonder how crowded it gets with everyone going in and/or driving up there to get the special.

[Andara Bledin]

A run-down, for those who didn't catch it in the other thread:

Oprah had some deal with KFC where you could download a program and then print up to 4 coupons for a free 2-piece grilled chicken meal with 2 sides and a biscuit.

KFC didn't even come close to realizing how large a following Oprah actually has, so a huge number of stores ran out of the grilled chicken, some of them during lunch. And a couple of stores didn't participate at all, earning them extreme enmity.

So, by the day after the coupon roll-out, they've already pulled the download program offline, and now all coupons are for rainchecks for new coupons to be mailed out at a later date.

^-.-^

[SG15Z]

Cluckin' Bell, not Clunkin' Bell, but thanks.

Meh close enough.

[telecom_goddess]

KFC makes me sick...it didn't use to. I used to love to treat myself with their food but a couple months ago I had some and spent the night in the bathroom. Thinking it was a fluke I tried them again about a month ago and spent the night in the bathroom.

So yea no KFC for this girl.

That happened to me about 20 years ago....I got really sick eating KFC and have refused to go back to one since...and I haven't eaten a drop of their food since then. You only have to make me sick once

[Devonian]

I won't be going to a KFC again just because of this. It was a poorly thought out gimmick.

It's not KFC's fault, really, it's the Internet's and the customers'.

It's like that infamous Transformers coupon that worked on not only all Transformers but all other Hasbro toys (unintentionally). Boy, the Internet had a field day with that one...

[jedimaster91]

A run-down, for those who didn't catch it in the other thread:

Oprah had some deal with KFC where you could download a program and then print up to 4 coupons for a free 2-piece grilled chicken meal with 2 sides and a biscuit.

KFC didn't even come close to realizing how large a following Oprah actually has, so a huge number of stores ran out of the grilled chicken, some of them during lunch. And a couple of stores didn't participate at all, earning them extreme enmity.

I call bull crap on KFC not realizing how large a demand they would have. Even if Oprah didn't have goddess status, fans would forward the site to their friends, and the friends would pass it on to their friends, and so forth. KFC knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

I've already gotten a crapload of free grilled chicken because Mr Jedi works for the company that does their advertising. Just before the grilled chicken went out on the store level, his office got to sample it and they had so much left over, he brought home a whole Pyrex dish full of the stuff. It's not bad, but I still prefer the fried.

[Calie]

KFC makes me sick...it didn't use to. I used to love to treat myself with their food but a couple months ago I had some and spent the night in the bathroom. Thinking it was a fluke I tried them again about a month ago and spent the night in the bathroom.

So yea no KFC for this girl.

Me too - and it's only in the last year or so that it's made me sick. The last time it even made my husband sick - though he says it's cause he swallowed a small bone. Ugh. Though I am pretty sure it's the oil from the frying, so I may try the grilled to see if it's better...

[Bella_Vixen]

Fried chicken never got a thumbs down from children and adults alike.

I actually don't care for fried chicken...unless it's in strips.

I have been waiting for-EVAH for KFC to come out with an alternative to their fried fare.

I'm just curious as to why anyone would think that any place with the word "fried" in their name would offer unfried alternatives...

[ottid]

I'm just curious as to why anyone would think that any place with the word "fried" in their name would offer unfried alternatives...

I think they've been trying really hard to get away from being "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and just be "KFC" trying to get rid of the unhealthy connotation of the fried bit it the name. It could just be here in NZ, but I'm sure the International head office decided on it.