KFC

ok so I am a popeyes fan and recently went to RI this is best KFC I ever had.

They replaced the popcorn chicken with chicken bites. It’s a scam. The bites are legitimately 6 pieces of popcorn chicken (very small) and they charge the full price of a medium bucket of popcorn chicken. A completely rip off. Do not eat here let it go out of business

Not a fan of fast food or KFC. Went here on a random craving for their biscuits.
I won’t be going back to KFC for a while. I won’t be going back to this specific KFC ever again. Both the service and food was horrible. I came with a friend, and we were greeted indirectly by a manager telling her teenage cashier to come to the register because the cashier was so concentrated on cleaning tables that she seemed not to «notice» us. We were asked by the cashier, «what do you want?» Rude.
What really ticked me off about this visit was the food. The presentation and actual ingestion of it was sub-​mediocre, it was downright awful to eat. When my food arrives right when I finish paying for it, I think it a bit sketchy. We ate there. Everything was placed unceremoniously on a plastic plate. They skimped on the potato wedges; the biscuits were dry and stale; and my chicken strips were undercooked and the skin flaked off with a mere prod from my plastic fork. I don’t like wasting food and I usually finish my food, even if it feels like a tortuous journey to do so. But this meal… I couldn’t eat more than two bites. My friend and I threw our (surprisingly) pricey food and left.
I don’t expect much from a fast food restaurant filled with teenage employees. But they could at least hire kids that can at least pretend to like their job. Maybe even muster a fake smile when dealing with customers. I’m sure minimum wage pays for at least that much. I prefer Popeye’s anyways.

So I must start by saying I am not a fan of KFC in general. But there is usually enough inconsistency between stores to try different ones out. So today it was Coventry’s lucky day.
First, I do like the store. It was different than the others with actual furniture that is not bolted to the ground.
The service on the other hand I guess is designed for the drive through OR the young folks are too used to social network conversations they really do not know how to interact with living, breathing people. There was no ‘Hi, how are you, what can we do for you…’ Just, ‘What would you like.’
So to the food. The chicken was typical KFC. I did get it mixed and the original was pretty good. The Crispy, which I used to like until they went to their ‘super duper let us make it so crispy we can hide the crappy chicken we use and you will never be able to tell’ recipe, was still just that.
The Dr. Pepper out of the fountain was really good, so one minus, one plus.
Mashed potatoes were their standard. I think they are wall paper paste, my wife loves them. The gravy, which has been going down hill for a long time is now watered down. To make the flow down hill faster I guess. So, — 1 and +1 again.
Biscuits were okay. Kind of thick in the middle, lukewarm, dried out on top. Not your mothers biscuits and I am sure the Col. would not be happy. So –1. I would like to say with the butter and honey it came back up, but here is an interesting thing. They do not give you butter any longer and the honey, much to my shock, is not ‘Honey Sauce.’ WTF you might be asking is Honey Sauce? Well, let me tell you. And this is the order of the ingredients on the pack. Also, this is the order of importance and weight, it is a legal thing. So… High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Honey, Carmel Color. So the only thing that has less measured ingredient level is the fake color to make it look like honey. As long as we are all clear, what this means is that if they have a 100 gal vat of Corn Syrup, HF or otherwise, they can put one dropper of food color and two drops of honey.
So I have decided that KFC is not the place for me. It is one thing to want to make a buck, but I am thinking this is a bit over the top. Fake, dehydrated potatoes, watered down gravy, prefabbed biscuits, fake honey and did I mention… you have to ask for forks, knifes and spoons as well as napkins. Now that is tight control. Not to mention the $ 32.00 meal deal they have on the board for 16 pieces of chicken. That is 2 whole chickens, that you can buy at the grocery store, for about $ 7.00.