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 brands greatest asset," with a handful of increasingly odd "web, broadcast, social media and in-store experiences."(continued)
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I thought it was Bill Pullman playing the Colonel!
A couple of days ago, my friend found a bug in her chicken from our local KFC. I haven’t eaten there in a couple of years, because I have heard several disgusting stories; some from former employees.
All fried chicken pales in comparison to that from Babe’s Chicken Dinner House in Texas. Better than Grandma’s.
I like Babe’s and live 20 minutes from the original location, but Belle’s Chicken Dinner House in Abilene is even better.
Never eat at fast food restaurants and throw food into the trash. You've got a comeuppance coming.
Chic-fil-A donates to all of the schools and church groups in the area. Their employees are friendly and helpful. Their stores are clean. Their service is fast, even with huge lines. Their food is good. They rarely mess up orders, but smile and fix them if they do. They close on Sundays, but are open pretty late in the evening the other days. They welcome families and have events for children. Our kids love it when the cow is there. They have free wifi.
KFC is literally none of the above. Really easy decision to make every time we drive past KFC to get to the Chic-fil-A.
True, but my family now associates it with ghetto customer employees too. The last few times I was in there I felt unsure about my physical safety from all angles.
I won't take my daughter there ever again.
Like McDonalds', KFC no longer seeks the white dollar. They explicitly advertise to, and seek out, nonwhite customers as their base. And that's great, but my family comes first, so never again can we patronize them.
You mean the Tyson that fired all the Americans and imported thousands of Mexicans to replace them?
I was in AR near Tyson plants. We were touristing in the Ouchita Mtns at a beautiful lake. Suddenly, 40 illegal aliens swarm in and take over the place, with open hostility towards the fewer-in-number white people. We left. I have a family to protect.
It was only later that it dawned on me: These were Tyson illegals. Damn Tyson to hell for what they did to that area and to the Americans they discarded.
Ii was thinking of the Shelbyville, TN plant where they fired the illegals and replaced them with Somalians. Who immediately started making demands. (Wanted a Muslim holiday instead of Labor Day) Call me paranoid, but I think it prudent not to want my food processed by people who hate us. And Tyson makes bacon now - think how that must go over with them.
From China.
The new Colonel Sanders is a fake phony, fraud. Now get odd my phone you bum.
Churches was pretty good many moons ago. Then the Saudis bought them, and took all the pork fat out of the equation. Not so good any more.
last and final time i tried KFC i could not finish the meal
i think they must get their frying grease from the jiffy lube next door.... and change it on a yearly basis
NO QUALITY CONTROL
SHEETY WORKERS
UNHEALTHLY ENVIRONMENT
exactly how to go out of business
i saw the colobel one time walking through an airport in his white suit accompanied by two platinum blondes one on each arm dressed in sprayed on white skirts....... great taste in chicks.......
LOL! that’s hilarious!
Yes, but their cows can't spell too well.
Yes, but their cows can't spell too well.
LOL!!! Can hear it now ... "GAME OVER MAN!! We lost the chicken war!"
You’re thinking of Bill Paxton!
ROFLMAO!
Bill Pullman played Lonestar from the Mel Brooks movie, “Spaceballs.”
Now what would Bill Pullman say?
Oh nevermind. LOL!!!!!
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