Popcorn chicken and onion rings are the best there. Pity they don't do onion rings any more (they used to use real rings of onion, too), and their chips are naff.
McDonalds are bad enough, calling themselves a restaurant and yet they won't trust me with plates and cutlery, but I refuse to eat my dinner out of a bucket!
McDonalds are bad enough, calling themselves a restaurant and yet they won't trust me with plates and cutlery, but I refuse to eat my dinner out of a bucket!
And the service is bloody appalling! I sat for 50 minutes at one of their tables the other week waiting for a waiter to come and take my order. Eventually some pimply-faced "manager" just came over and told me that if I wasn't going to order anything then I should just leave because I'm taking up space during their lunch rush. The bloody cheek! I've never been back.
I've never ever been to KFC. I've been to Mcdonalds a few times though. My favourite is the Wimpy and luckily there is one where i stay but they're very few around.
Seriously annoying are those branches where they're mopping the floor and they start mopping under the table you're eating at. They behave like customers are part of the furniture.
Why Wimpy is far less successful than McDonalds is beyond me.
Wimpy have waited service, proper mugs for the coffee, a more varied menu.
Isn't one in Bedford though.
It's because they build shit houses with paper thin walls. :roll:
I remember my nan used to take us to the Wimpy in Aylesbury shopping center when we were kids. I remember it being in the center tower of some big concrete carbunkle of a shopping center. I think the shopping center has been pulled down now and replaced by a 90's red brick carbunkle of a shopping center minus a Wimpy.
I do casual work for a mystery shopping company (which covers outlets like KFC + McDonalds).
Whilst in town in Boston, I noticed that KFC were having an 'emergency' chicken delivery from a local supplier. The chicken was brought in from the back seat of a car - unpacked, uncovered and unrefridgerated. You might expect it from a dodgy kebab shop, but not a chain of outlets like this.
Although I wasn't mystery shopping at the time, I wrote to KFC to explain, and they just didn't believe me, even though I explained that I'm NOT a KFC customer, work as a mystery shopper, and have nothing to gain by criticising KFC.
Goes to show however, as Boston KFC continuously fails to even achieve the lowest 'Bronze level' food hygiene rating from the council inspections.
Why Wimpy is far less successful than McDonalds is beyond me.
Wimpy have waited service, proper mugs for the coffee, a more varied menu.
Isn't one in Bedford though.
It may have something to do with the fact that they like to completely skank you from outlets on service stations (?6 for a burger??). At least McDonalds have reasonably standardised prices throughout the country.
I used to work for the local chicken factory (now Premier Foods, iirc) on the KFC line for a few months. Basically, any chicken that failed to make the grade due to broken bones, green or blue patches went to our department. All of it was bagged up and sent off to KFC - including any chicken that had been on the floor, trodden on, was covered in chicken shit etc.
KFC don't grade their own chicken the way that say, M&S do - they just toss it all into a masher, bones and all, and then mush it and retexturise it.
There's no way I'd ever eat at KFC - and I never have :-)
I used to work for the local chicken factory (now Premier Foods, iirc) on the KFC line for a few months. Basically, any chicken that failed to make the grade due to broken bones, green or blue patches went to our department. All of it was bagged up and sent off to KFC - including any chicken that had been on the floor, trodden on, was covered in chicken shit etc.
KFC don't grade their own chicken the way that say, M&S do - they just toss it all into a masher, bones and all, and then mush it and retexturise it.
There's no way I'd ever eat at KFC - and I never have :-)
It may have something to do with the fact that they like to completely skank you from outlets on service stations (?6 for a burger??). At least McDonalds have reasonably standardised prices throughout the country.
The Wimpys always look small and dingey to me, with an uninspiring menu.
I used to work for the local chicken factory (now Premier Foods, iirc) on the KFC line for a few months. Basically, any chicken that failed to make the grade due to broken bones, green or blue patches went to our department. All of it was bagged up and sent off to KFC - including any chicken that had been on the floor, trodden on, was covered in chicken shit etc.
KFC don't grade their own chicken the way that say, M&S do - they just toss it all into a masher, bones and all, and then mush it and retexturise it.
There's no way I'd ever eat at KFC - and I never have :-)
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In a similar vein, I had a evening Job at Tesco when I was 16 on the butchers counter.
I don't remember the circumstances but for some reason the store was closed for 3-4 days...anyway when we came in some of the beef had turned green. The head butcher had me mince it up and we sold it as minced beef.
In a similar vein, I had a evening Job at Tesco when I was 16 on the butchers counter.
I don't remember the circumstances but for some reason the store was closed for 3-4 days...anyway when we came in some of the beef had turned green. The head butcher had me mince it up and we sold it as minced beef.
...just so you know.
"Green Beef" Sounds like a name for a Martian porno.
I remember somewhere between the ages of 11 and 14 I'd seen a snide KFC somewhere outside of Newcastle (could have been London, Manchester, Sheffield, York or Darlington, as these were all places I know I visited in this timeline, maybe someone living in one of these areas can verify the existance of this place). It was called Krunchy Fried Chicken, and the logo was exactly the same as Kentucky fried Chicken (it was before the change to KFC), it just didn't have the Colonels heed on the sign.
Oh and by the way it tasted like crap (but quite similar to actual KFC).
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I dont mind KFC, dont have them often but if i'm suddenly starving and want a bucket of crap to fill me up KFC is good for that !
I have it at least once a year, and then I spend the rest of the day oily and sick, but happy!
And the service is bloody appalling! I sat for 50 minutes at one of their tables the other week waiting for a waiter to come and take my order. Eventually some pimply-faced "manager" just came over and told me that if I wasn't going to order anything then I should just leave because I'm taking up space during their lunch rush. The bloody cheek! I've never been back.
The thought of having to visit a KFC is more likely to put me in a coma.
Wimpy have waited service, proper mugs for the coffee, a more varied menu.
Isn't one in Bedford though.
It's because they build shit houses with paper thin walls. :roll:
I remember my nan used to take us to the Wimpy in Aylesbury shopping center when we were kids. I remember it being in the center tower of some big concrete carbunkle of a shopping center. I think the shopping center has been pulled down now and replaced by a 90's red brick carbunkle of a shopping center minus a Wimpy.
Wait a minute. Waiters at McDonalds? ::D
Whilst in town in Boston, I noticed that KFC were having an 'emergency' chicken delivery from a local supplier. The chicken was brought in from the back seat of a car - unpacked, uncovered and unrefridgerated. You might expect it from a dodgy kebab shop, but not a chain of outlets like this.
Although I wasn't mystery shopping at the time, I wrote to KFC to explain, and they just didn't believe me, even though I explained that I'm NOT a KFC customer, work as a mystery shopper, and have nothing to gain by criticising KFC.
Goes to show however, as Boston KFC continuously fails to even achieve the lowest 'Bronze level' food hygiene rating from the council inspections.
It may have something to do with the fact that they like to completely skank you from outlets on service stations (?6 for a burger??). At least McDonalds have reasonably standardised prices throughout the country.
KFC don't grade their own chicken the way that say, M&S do - they just toss it all into a masher, bones and all, and then mush it and retexturise it.
There's no way I'd ever eat at KFC - and I never have :-)
D.
"green or blue patches"
What does that mean?
The Wimpys always look small and dingey to me, with an uninspiring menu.
In a similar vein, I had a evening Job at Tesco when I was 16 on the butchers counter.
I don't remember the circumstances but for some reason the store was closed for 3-4 days...anyway when we came in some of the beef had turned green. The head butcher had me mince it up and we sold it as minced beef.
...just so you know.
"Green Beef" Sounds like a name for a Martian porno.
Oh and by the way it tasted like crap (but quite similar to actual KFC).