KFC

I don’t agree with the other reviews. I’ve been here a few times over the past few months with friends and family, and my experience has been the contrary.
The place is newly remodeled and clean. The fried chicken is still the best that I’ve had, and is way better than the ones at better rated «independent» restaurants in nearby towns that charge much more. Grease is unavoidable with deep frying, so I soak up any excess with a napkin. The service is fast, friendly, and accommodating to my needs.

Nothing good here. Dirty Place, terrible service and the food I should have known better. Ordered 2 piece meal. Took one bite of chicken and the chicken was soaked on oil and just terrible. Didn’t even bothered to eat the biscuit, mash potato or the cole slaw. This is the 2^nd time at KFC. The only reason to go here was because of parking. Not Again!!!

On the night of the Double Down’s unholy resurrection, we waited an extra 20 minutes because they dropped their only batch of chicken on the ground. Probably the worst KFC I’ve been to on multiple levels, but I can’t stay mad with arteries this clogged.

These people that are employed here are seriously the bottom of the barrel. I have been to this place twice and each time they get my order wrong. Every single time I have gotten home I am actually missing something in my order. I will never return here again.

So this is where high school dropouts get employment.
Say what you want about McDonald’s, but service there is efficient, even in the slummiest of neighborhoods. Contrast this to Allston’s KFC, where employees miss simple orders (mashed potatoes vs potato wedges), hold tight to napkins and utensils (even though eating fried chicken is an inherently messy adventure), and spend more time chatting with their unemployed buds (presumably in Portuguese Creole) than addressing customers.
About the last point, KFC Allston had better come up with a loitering policy, lest it discourage anyone from eating in. Incidentally, fault lies with management, as indoor temperature is so cold that employees and customers shiver in jackets on a not-​so-​cold day.
Fortunately, KFC chicken comes partially cooked from the Yum! Death Star, so it’s hard to screw up, even for these Mensa scholars. A personal discovery is that extra crispy chicken has now eclipsed original recipe in terms of taste.
Next time, try Kennedy Fried Chicken for a more authentic urban fried chicken experience.

This isn’t the greatest KFC in the world. Service is at times pretty spotty and sometimes I even get parts of my order missing.
That being said, I love fried chicken. The 3 – 4 piece meals are the best deals on the menu. Just order lots of the 3 – 4 piece meals if you want larger quantities of chicken, and you’ll save some money along with greasing up your arteries.

I found a spine in my chicken from this kfc. Gross.

This kfc sucks. The food is bad, service is aweful. The people work there are brainless, clueless, and absolutely no customer service. They treat customers badly, lack of patience, and no manners. The girls working there shouldn’t be serving customers bc they don’t qualify.
Forgot to mrention that you still experience bad service even if you speak their native tongue… it is not a matter of bad English!

How do you write a review for KFC? Would it be like rating McD’s? BKs? Yea. i suppose…
I had really fond memories of KFC growing up. My friends and I would sit on the same corner day after day, week after weeks for several years. It was our place back in the days.
I’ve been to this KFC about a dozen or so times. I recall coming here over 15 years ago and the service was somewhat ok. More recently, I’ve been back a couple of times and it seems the quality of food just isn’t what it used to be, at least not how I remembered. Biscuits here was always one of my favorites, as well as the fries. I loved their crispy chicken. What happen to crispy?
Everything just seemed more tasteless and they’re not fresh looking or tasting either. And the Service is so poor it matches the appearance/​quality of the food.
Would i be back again? Probably not. Popeyes seems to be a better choice these days…
And while I’m here, I should also mention that the bathroom is always disgusting, and the floors seem to be washed with the same dirty water — sometimes pretty slippery.

This place has…
Sketchy employees who aren’t very intelligent (come on, the menu items are NUMBERED to make it easier for you. How the hell do you manage to fuck that up every time?)
and…
Even sketchier clientele. No more KFC at this location for me.

Don’t go in there thinking you’re going to be able to order some grilled chicken and have it ready in 10 minutes or less. Just because it’s advertised does not even mean they’ve taken the chicken out of the freezer. If you still have a hankering for some Kentucky Grilled, you better have some time on your hands, because it’s gonna go like this:
–walk to the counter, look up at menu to confirm that, indeed, grilled chicken is still allegedly being sold by KFC
–order and wait for the person taking your order to stare blankly at you, then ask you to repeat your order, then look back at the menu to make sure grilled chicken REALLY IS sold by KFC, then look at you and say that they don’t have any
–control the impulse to go Dave Chapelle on ‘em and ask them how long it would take to make some
–wait while person taking your order adds up time it would take to catch, kill, and grill chicken (about 10 – 15 minutes)
–decide that you are starving and can eat sides ’til the chicken’s done
–once your food arrives, you eat it, it’s super dry, and vow never to return to this KFC again.
Ever. Of course, you could just get to step two and say screw it, give me a three-​piece original and call it a day. If I’m so moved to try this again, I have a feeling that this second option will be what I do.

FIRST:
If English is your only language, forget it. Seriously, you order chicken and they have no idea what your talking about.
SECOND:
If ‘FIRST’ does not apply to you, use the drive through. The environment inside is oppressive. I think they have seen cooler days in Hell. By the time you get your order correctly you will be soaked in sweat. It is disgusting.

The only reason i didn’t rate it lower is because i can’t. I’m not a big fan of rating restaurants, but this is so bad that I just had to get an Unilocal account to warn others.
We arrived at ~6:55pm after finding that Popeyes at Kenmore was not open. There were about 15 customers already in line. We then proceeded to wait for 50 minutes before getting the opportunity to order. 3 non-​drive through staff members took 50 minutes to handle 15 customers? and you call this a fast food restaurant?
One woman in front of me repeatedly got her orders prepared wrong. There were mix ups with what had been handled, what had been prepared, and what order had been completed. There were ample chicken on the shelf, but no one seems to be grabbing them to serve the customers.
Finally, they even over-​charged me by $ 3 for a 10 piece meal that should have been $ 20.
The staff was ill-​prepared, unorganized, and flat out dumb.

Sigh. My two-​hundredth review goes to KFC, the place where I sometimes go, but always feel bad afterward.
This specific KFC employs the stingiest people ever. I just love it when I buy ten pieces of chicken, three large sides and biscuits and when I ask for ketchup and hot sauce, they give me two packets of each. Look, sir, the money, I’m sure, is not coming out of your pocket. Now, will you please add some more ketchup to my bag? That usually results in a sigh and another ketchup packet.
I’ve only ever eaten in once and they gave me a crazy load of potato wedges, but besides that, they act like the food that they’re selling is the last little bit in the entire world and they need to save it for themselves.
As for the price, for enough chicken and sides to feed my family, it usually gets up to about $ 30 or so and I personally think that, for KFC? That’s a rip-​off. I live right in between KFC and Popeyes and for that price? I’ll go to Popeyes instead.

KFC is one of my favorite grub places, but this location has disappointed me more times than I can forgive.
My latest experience involved a dirty dining room (if you can call it that), a 10 minute wait for service despite the fact that there were only 3 people in line. They ran out of thighs at 7 (shouldn’t KFC be well stocked with the one thing they sell? Chicken!). The hot wings were unseasoned.
Worst of all one of the servers was completely overwhelmed by her job job and when too many requests started rolling in like «can I have some hot sauce», she proceeded to start yelling at the customers.
This KFC’s only saving grace from getting one star is that I was already sitting down at my dirty table munching on my decent, but really not that special fried chicken and rather enjoyed the watching the line build up to about 10 hungry people shooting hate rays at the incompetent staff.

I’ll preface with the usual, I worked at a KFC for two years, I know they can be nice. This one blows.
if it weren’t for it being ¼ mile up the street, we’d never come here.
Mac and Cheese needs the cover left on it so it doesn’t dry out people… and it can only be reconstituted so many times.
The strips also were overcooked and dried out.
Boooooooo.

Only my second ever 1 star review, but this place deserves it.
I’ve gone a few times and the food has either been ancient or the service was just over the top rude. But its KFC… and I loved it as a kid. Once in a while I can put up with a dirty fast food dive with bad service and clueless staff.
I went there tonight for the last time.
I pulled up to the drive thru speaker. Waited about 30 seconds until I did the soft hello… then a little louder… then the not quite a yell, but firm «hellooo?» Nothing. It was 5:30pm.
I pull around to the window and see 2 employees arguing with a customer. One with drive thru headphones on. The other notices me and makes some hand gesture at me… I couldn’t tell if it was go away or wait. I wait.
The drive thru headphones wearing guy notices me. He doesn’t even flinch or offer a gesture. He keeps arguing with a customer at the counter.
About 3 or 4 minutes later, headphones wearer comes to the window. I wasn’t in a bad mood, so the delay really didn’t bother me. I know some fast food customers can be ridiculous, so I figured he was just tied up.
I order 4 items from the $ 1 menu. 2 snackers, biscuits and a soda. It comes to $ 3.50something… clearly he missed something, so I repeat… he didn’t get the biscuits… so now the total is $ 5 and something. I repeat the order again.
He motions for the other employee to come over to explain to me how 4 $ 1 items comes to $ 5.70ish. I realize his error. I ordered a «value drink». The medium soda he was already pouring (after I said value several times) was about $ 2.
I repeat «Value size soda.» (I had $ 4 cash on me and some change.) He says that’s a medium and that a «value size» soda doesn’t exist… literally as I look at a poster behind him on the wall with a value size soda on the $ 1 menu. I ask him to go look at his menu… he gets flustered and rude. I drive off. Absolute idiot.

As semi-​urban KFC’s go this one isn’t that bad*. It’s certainly a better dining experience than that pit of a Kentucky Fried Tack Fail in Inman Sq.
The biggest pro for this place AFAIC was the Drive-​Thru window. So when a working stiff or desk jockey that still lives in Allston for some reason (like I did) is on the way home they can get some, usually, decent quality KFC and eat it in the privacy of their own home thus sparing them from the transient carnival inside.
[*] I find that any fast-​food chain is usually MUCH better in the suburbs or in rural areas as a rule.

Alternative way to experience KFC in Allston/​Brighton:
1. Rent/​borrow/​lease/​buy a vehicle
2. Fill the vehicle with gas
3. Drive to Mexico
4. Begin a conversation with one of the locals
Seriously, it’s called a number 5, not a number cinco. Learn or leave.

Just so you know, this is gonna be a long story… you think it’s just a review for KFC, but you have no idea.
This weekend, I finally caved into my KFC fried chicken craving after YEARS of resisting. My rationalization: I had watched a fast food documentary the night before featuring Colonel Sanders, and I was having a VERY BAD day.
That’s how I found myself in the parking lot of this KFC debating what to get. The boyfriend asks, «So how many pieces do you want to get?»
Me: Umm… three? (trying to maintain portion control)
Him: THREE?! Nobody gets just 3 pieces of KFC.
Me: Ok… well, why don’t we just go in and see what they have then.
I’ll spare you the rest of our meal-​ordering ordeal and just tell you we got the 6 piece bucket, which came with 3 biscuits and 1 side (we chose the potato wedges). We took it to go because we wanted to eat in front of the TV (shameful admission) and drink beer (because everyone knows Corona goes excellent with fried chicken).
I can’t believe I’m actually reviewing KFC right now… I’ll just add one more note: it was pretty darn tasty, but the chicken wasn’t as crispy as I remember it being when I was a kid. And I definitely felt my arteries clogging after that meal… *Tip: drinking lots of green tea post-​meal will help you feel less ill.
Also, this KFC is right next to one of the best donut shops ever: Twin Donuts. If really want to do it up right, get yourself some chocolate glazed donuts for dessert. Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about…