Posted on 05/26/2015 5:34:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
These are dark days for KFC's once-dominant chicken empire. After five years of crumbling sales, the extra crispy mega-chain, which in 2012 lost its throne as America's top chicken seller to Chick-fil-A, now makes less money than eateries half its size, like Applebee's and Panera Bread.
Now, 75 years after "Colonel" Harland Sanders first served his original recipe at a six-seat dining table in rural Kentucky, the chain is betting $185 million on a massive, bizarre turnaround campaign in hopes of winning a seat again at the fast-food table.
The chain is blasting out TV ads, offering new Southern-style grub and remodeling some of its 4,300 stores with humanized touches, like boards they say will name the regional farm where their chickens came from.
Perhaps KFC's biggest gamble: Reviving the long-dead visage of Colonel Sanders himself, "the brand’s greatest asset," with a handful of increasingly odd "web, broadcast, social media and in-store experiences."(continued)
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Here in Washington state north of Seattle all we have is KFC. North of Seattle is where lots of UW graduate libtards live mostly upper middle class.
The Popeye’s are in the southern more ghetto ish area and there is no Church’s up here, either. So if not home-fried, KFC is the only option. There are no Chick Filas in the state as far as I know.
Broasterant?
“Out here in Southern California, the Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott’s Berry Farm, an amusement park, offers a take-out version of their fried chicken which is far better than KFC, but the price is almost double. My mother worked there as a waitress in 1941-42 (when it was still a berry farm), and if you ate there in the 1950’s, your chicken might have come from my uncle’s ranch, located where Disneyland now stands, or from its later location in Olive Heights.”
Knotts was cheap entertainment for my family. Before they charged admission, a family could go and let the kids play on wagons, listen to live music, then have moderately priced family meals. Fill up on rolls and jams. I seem to recall a back annex to the Chicken Restaurant, with a limited lower priced menu.
Or maybe they just took us in and out the back entrance, since we were a line of noisy little boys.
You haven’t had chicken until you eat at a Chick-A-Dilly.
Get a heaping basket of fried chicken livers.
***KFC varies from awful to fairly good***
How true! I bought some KFC near here not long ago and it was horrible!
While visiting friends forty miles from here they bought their local KFC and it was great!
We are becoming “Portlandia”
I’ll have to admit to not being familiar with “Portlandia.” I believe it will be worth me checking it out.
Of the big three near here, KFC is worst. Popeyes is good but very salty, Churches is good but not salty enough.
And this time of year they have fresh peach shakes. Fortunately for my waistline they don’t offer them all year long!
So, every time I go and eat at KFC I remember the visit I had with him. Col. Sanders died the next year I believe.
I don’t know, they were by the Elevated track in Hartford on the left as you went uphill to Asylum and Farmington Ave
When I was young those take out dinners were real treats, once or twice a year to eat as we watched Twentieth Century and then the Wonderful World of Disney then Ed Sullivan.
ChikFilA is ok, clean, great staff,but not a great menu.
The hands down winner for a decent chicken sandwich is Wendy's.
They also beat all the other local burger joints in taste, service and food quality.
Full disclosure-I prefer my chicken spiced and baked to perfection at home, and only buy the boneless skinless Murray's brand, or go without.
I gotta toss in a vote for Lee’s. It’s the only one that still serves, gizzards.
I'm a fan. Put. A. Bird. On. It.
KFC slaw is the best part of their menu, IMHO.
A LONG time ago Kentucky Fried Chicken served the biggest, meatiest, juiciest chicken you can imagine, and the breading was so delicious as to be sublime. I can still remember the experience of biting into every piece.
It has to be more than 30 years since they started serving skimpy, greasy and uninspiring food.
I watched another one of the skits and realized I am going to have to watch all of it.
Thanks for putting me on to it. It should be fun to watch.
My favorites are Popeyes and Bpjangles. The biscuits are usually the best part.
Popeyes can be a bit salty. I find all these type places to be a bit inconsistent. I know a guy that used to manage one of these restaurants. He said a lot of it depends on when you order. If you order at like 3:30, it’s likely the chicken as been sitting around for a while. They may not have cooked in a few hours. By then it’s usually a bit soggy. He said to wait until after 5:30 when you know they’re cooking again.
Oh yeah I forgot the old time KFC gravy was incredible. My God dipping the chicken in it was good! People always ordered extra gravy.
When we were kids, there were 5 of us, everyone had their piece. I got a drumstick and the gizzard. Mother would always just take what was left.
I think I like the breast/pully bone best now.
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