When people here were shouting hosannas to CFA, I noticed the decline in their food that you mentioned. The food is bad and their bathrooms are worse than McDonalds. And it’s expensive...
Adding insult to injury - vice versa, perhaps - much to my chagrin I discovered that they no longer exclusively used peanut oil: They fried the waffle fries in Canola oil (poison, if those reading this aren’t privy to my rants on Oil of Rape). It states exactly that in small print on the menu board.
I was not happy. Didn’t get the fries for obvious reasons and sat down to eat a sandwich which paled to Burger King’s frozen/fried/chicken on a hoagie in comparison. Loved that BK sammich back in the day with mustard & cheese (back when I ate that kind of crap food daily for lunch).
I do want to sample the Popeye’s chicken sandwich but I’m not going out of my way (almost 100 miles, but on the road to my parents’ place) and probably won’t do so more than once: They use Canola and I go to great lengths to avoid it 99.99% of the time, usually choosing the .01% to stop in at Popeye’s.