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Re: Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator

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Post by sreyaNotfilc » Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 3:00 PM UTC

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #36

sreyaNotfilc wrote: post #20

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When I first took a bite out of Popeye's chicken sandwich I had two immediate thoughts. 1. This thing is delicious!! 2. Poor poor Chick-fil-A. Popeye's sandwich is much better. And I can eat it any day of the week.

On the bright side, the people who work for Chick-fil-A have at least one known, consistent day off each and every week. For most of you who have not worked a job outside of tech, that's a pretty big deal.

Oh, I agree. My sister works in the fast-food industry. She never knows what days she have off. Its horrible. Chick-fil-A is doing something right here.

Re: Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator

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Post by aussiegreenie » Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 5:02 PM UTC

cco wrote: post #23

filmgirlcw wrote: post #13

Apologies for the off-topic comment — I’m not really sure if the Popeyes sandwich is an indicator of anything, but it’s a damn good sandwich. My trash food friends and I drove nearly an hour (sans traffic it would’ve taken 20 minutes) to one of the only Popeyes in the Seattle area on Wednesday. There was a small line but a very long wait for food (understandably! It was similar to Shake Shack at lunch — lots of peopl…

Your comment seems unbelievable to me, though maybe this has more to do with my distaste for lines in general, but I can't believe that a fast food place has developed a sandwich that would warrant a 30 minute drive let alone a 25 minute wait. I love the food in question, fried chicken sandwiches, and I was fairly disappointed with my first Chick-Fil-A sandwich, it was fairly lackluster. In my experience there are fa…

I'm in Australia so I can not get the food but it sounds a lot like what happens in Asia. I place will open and become "Instagram famous" (Or WeChat) and the lines will be crazy.

But a few weeks (months??) later the shop is as dead as a nail.

It appears all of the "hottest" places get 15 minutes of fame then dies.

Re: Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator

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Post by spike021 » Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 6:10 PM UTC

magashna wrote: post #80

spike021 wrote: post #63

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>I've never understood the love for Chikfila. It's almost.. almost, like people have different taste and texture preferences. To be fair, many people hate Chipotle because it's "not real Mexican food" but love Taco Bell, and probably just as many enjoy food from either place just because it's a certain kind of food. Not everybody is going for something that's a 100% perfect fit to what it's marketed as.

I guess I don't understand the preference for bland mushy chicken.

>people have different taste and texture preferences.

As mentioned, not everybody finds that food bland.

Re: Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator

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Post by jessaustin » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 3:22 AM UTC

Perhaps motivated by the submarine here, I was moved last night to try the drive-through at a local Popeye's. Here follows a transcript of my experience, which as one might imagine I don't reckon I will soon repeat:

Please wait to order.

Ok.

Go ahead.

Yeah I'll have that shrimp po'boy.

We ain't had that for four months.

But it's on the menu?

That's not us, that's corporate!

That's not you? OK, I'll have one of those new chicken sandwiches.

We won't have that until October. Then they get a new sign.

What? So the sign will have been wrong for six months? How does that... ok I'll get the two-piece meal.

We only got white meat mild and dark meat mild and... that's it.

Uhhh... no spicy? I'm gonna come back another time, when y'all get a few things worked out here. You have a good evening.

You can't expect much food left. It's only half-hour 'til we close!