KFC

Finally got my free KFC grilled chicken meal after the coupon fiasco in May and I was even more underwhelmed with the company.

It was bad enough that KFC used the bait and switch tactic to get people in the door with no intention of giving a meal away that visit in the first place, but I figured I would redeem the mailed coupon and try to give them a chance. I left knowing I will never enter another KFC ever again.

I was the second one in line a little after 1PM on Monday July 21 and the cashier was already giving me a dirty look as she noticed the coupon. When asked if I could finally redeem my coupon she just gave a empty nod yes and said I wanted slaw and mashed. I asked for potato wedges and got another nod and a "yeah". When it came time to pick the chicken the cashier took the time to find the smallest pieces that had been sitting and drying out the longest, bagged it up and I was on my way. The drumstick had about two bites of chicken on it and the breast was so dry I had to throw it away.

It's obvious that even after the public relations nightmare after the first coupon, the company is trying to get off as cheaply as they can. I'm sure the long delay in getting the coupon was a ploy to hope people would forget the offer. I was probably lucky to get mine and wonder how many were "lost" in the mail. The coupon had about a 2 week window to use it and I again will assume that's so people hopefully misplace it of forget to use it in time. The capper is them employee telling me I would get slaw and giving me the dirty look when I wanted another side and then finding the nastiest pieces of chicken available they could not sell anyway. It would not surprise me if the monthly training this month is how to make people trying to redeem this coupon as unwelcome as they could. I did feel unwelcome and will never set foot in another KFC again.

KFC at 6851 Beach Blvd. in Buena Park is running a scam. Here's how it works. This KFC does not accept credit cards, only debit cards. When you order, unbeknownst to the customer, the order taker "conveniently forgets" part of your order. Customer is given a machine to enter debit card PIN, and the machine has scrawled across the bottom that there's an 80 cent charge to use a debit card (a face that was never told to the customer in advance). Once customer gets his or her order and discovers that an item is missing, customer must pay again using the debit machine, getting scammed out of an additional 80-cent "fee" for use of the debit machine. This is being done systematically to bilk consumers.

Myself and my family went into kfc franchise store at parkhead forge gallowgate glasgow.I ordered a family bucket which they gave us.We also asked if we could have some gravy and they told us it would not take long.Ten mins later i went up and asked for my gravy to be told that their microwave had broken down.Considering our meal was cold by that time and they could not even come up and tell us that the microwave was broken. I said to the customer advisor i thought it was a disgrase as our meal was ruined and it would only have took her to let us know we could not get the gravy and we would have started to eat our meal, instead of that the meal was cold and most of it went into the bin.The customer advisor did not even attempt to get a supervisor for us so we just walked ou

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Brian Boyle

On Sunday 5th July I was on my way to Johannesburg from Zimbabwe, I stoped at KFC Musina to get something to eat, when, we got there, there was a long line, we stood in line only for one lady who is appreantly a resident, of Musina, who jumped the line, I enquired with the cashier Emily who attended to her as to why she was doing that, since we have been in the line for a long time, why doesn't she cater fro people who are already in line, she complied, but her collegeue Rebbeca, I think that's her name, she said I was mad, crazy and to ### off, i got offended, and asked Emily if she can call the manager, which she was hesitate to do, because Rebbeca kept telling her not to in their native Venda Language, I kept on insisting i wanted to see the manager, eventually Wilson as he is called, was the manager in questions. I told him what Transpired but he didnt say much as it seemed he was afraid of this Rebbeca Lady, i got very angry that when asked him to tell the lady to apologise he refused instead he gave me two bowls of mash and coleslaw, that made me even angrier, i threw the mash next to the cashier who had insulted me.

I think as a paying customer I didnt deserve that kind of treatment, I will never set foot again at the KFC Musina, the staff does not have any good customer service. These people do not deserve to be working with the public, as they have stinking attitudes.

Thanks

Sharon Mpofu
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I would like to know when these fast food places are going to teach their employees to package your hot foods seperately from your cold foods. It never fails, whenever I go to get some food to go...they ALWAYS mix the hot and cold in the same bag. You don't know how many times my ice cream was soup when I got home and I only live about 1/2 to 1 mile away depending on which fast food place I go to. Salads, cole slaw, pies, parfaits, ice cream are always put right in with hot steaming food. Not a good practice, never mind the fact that food is ruined. Years ago my husband and I got extremely sick (food poisoning) from a KFC while on vacation. I don't know what was bad, but it could have been the cole slaw in with very hot bucket of chicken. It took me many years to eat at a KFC again...but now that I do...they are still doing the same practice. They should NEVER, NEVER put hot with cold for health reasons and for the quality of the food.

A friend of mine went into the KFC in Payson, Az asked for the bug order of grilled chicken. She was told that it would be about a nine min. wait, she said that's fine. The manager or owner came out and said we are going to mix fried with the grilled because if we give you all grilled there won't be any left for any other customer if someone else wants some. She said no I want all grilled that I paid for. Manager said I can't give it to you.My friend said you would rather make me unhappy to sell the grilled chicken in smaller sets to maake more money she said yes. That's pretty poor service -don't you think. Manager was also saying something about her oven had just been fixed or something. That isn't the customers problem. This KFC had changed for a while now it's going right back to the way it was.People will quit going there again and they won't have to worry about cooking any chicken. I don't know how many times i've been in ther and they get my order wrong 1 out of every 3 times because someone is more interested in there cell phone than the customer.

Thanks,
Diana Russell
P>O Box 2331
Payson, AZ. 85547
[protected]@q.com

My name is J Parker i went 4 a kfc in the above resturant with my family..the resturant was filthy dirty, floors tables counter, wen got food was cold and raw inside, asked to c manager he was out saw a lady named Bev, there was 7 laughing and joking behind counter, hard to get served too. i ask 4 table to be wiped and was met with a lot of abuse, then sum one sprayed table as we were eating ..wen i said we were eating he replyed cleaning tables ok...Bev and staff thought was a joke bad food bad cleaning bad manners is wot they had, i got 2 family buckets and had to leave the lot disgusting..i am a MP 4 mossley hill liverpool...and if u as a million pound company cant sort this hygene out and ur staff, im sure i will be able to do something..Awaiting ur reply J Parker...

Been to almost every KFC outlets in Penang and it seems all the outlets have the same issues.
Not too long ago, KFC started its credit card payment option service. I was delighted since I often make purchases for my family and also for events which can total up to a huge amount on the bill.
Unfortunately, it seems the credit card service is more of a sales gimmick. Most if not all the outlets does not accept credit cards!

I went to a few outlets which gave me straight forward answers stating they do not receive credit card payments even though they have the machine and the credit card sticker at the entrance.
Some outlets will say they accept but after you make your purchase they will inform you that the machine is out of order or offline.
The best experience I encountered was in Megamal Pinang KFC outlet, the manager in charge was manning the counter. When it was my turn to order I asked if the credit card machine can be use, he told me to go to the next line(the current cash register credit card machine I'm queuing does not work). So I went over to the next line and queued all over again. Again this time the cashier asked me to go to the next line because of the same problem. In the end after repeating the same process for 5 times, the last cashier told me that the machine is offline.

So I ended up walking away and head over to McD. I tried complaining through e-mails, suggestion/feedback forms...all to no avail. It seems they would just chuck it away. There isn't any proper channel for these types of problem to be complaint or handle here in Penang/Malaysia.

May I start by saying kentucky fried chicken is a great place to eat, but on the morning of wed. june 3rd there was a white older lady employee smoking inside the store, I belive her name tag said Margrete, when we walked in she was just there standing by the door inside the buisness, and had the nerve to tell me i'll be with you in a min., I started to dine in after I got my food, but decided not to because she was using profanity toward the cook in the back, my 3 year old doesnt' need to hear that..

I went into complain that the chicken was cold and that the chicken had been sitting too long. The manager then came in from outside where she was sitting in a car. She then told acustomer that he could not have alchol on the premises, then proceeded to give him acuddle and kiss. I then told her that the chicken was cold, she shrugged it off and said here is your money back. We have also been there on numerous occasssions where they have taken our order, waited for an hour only to be told that they had no chicken, but they took our money anyway. Kfc in wonthaggi is the worst place for service & quality. We would like a response to this complaint. Phone 03 [protected] if you are serious about quality control.

Hi this is the second time inside 1 year that i've had to turn around at car service and go somewhere else unbeleiveable the intercome still after almost one year still works really bad the girl inside can't hear and neither can I hardely I waited a good 5 minutes before she asked for my order and then I drove to wicked she asked me what I wanted and what was my problem after I had to knock on window after waited again about another 5 or 6 minutes this kun. Should be shut down instead of mocking people and waisting time I am 62 years old and have never experienced any thing so bad in all my life I am so mad I am having trouble to write this email [protected]@yahoo.com thank you

Whilst eating a wicked zinger meal i choked on a feather, contained in a spicy wing, if it wasnt for my colleague grabbing water it may have been a lot worse, but i am here to tell the story.

As a valued customer of KFC i am appalled at this and will no longer be eating there, it is to my surprise that such a huge franchise could allow this sort of thing to slip through the net.

i will be taking my complaint further to insure that this never happens again.

we go to kfc at least twice a week and they get our order mess up and there sevice is not good after they wait on a customer they will cuss and make fun of them this is not appericate for a busy i get so upset when they are cussing and being mean to people and they mess up the orders something needs to be done to them.

I tried to use the free grilled chicken meal coupon and was told by Mike, the manager, that they would not honor it because people were stealing by printing multiple coupons. I thought that is why they are bar-coded and numbered and you're only allowed to print once. He was rude about it and at first refused to even tell me if the store was indeed a K-Mac Franchise as most of them around here are. He pretended he didn't know what K-Mac was saying I don't know what that means. He finally did admit it was a K-Mac store. This silly game came across as very rude and the poorest of customer service--I'm wondering if they have any standards at all in that regard. I stopped frequenting KFC over a year ago because of the old tasting food, lack of food and supplies (out of side dishes, out of to go containers) as well as poor service that takes forever and a day. I won't be going back to this location EVER, that is for sure.

i brought 15 pcs of chicken original recipe from kfc faheel and the girl she didnt punch the order in system she put the money in side of her brest i want to take to her maneger but i feel shy becous she is a girl..

I visited three different Kentucky Fried Chicken in Alabama (May 6, 2009, Eufaula, Alabama; May 7, Oneonta, Alabama; and May 12, Troy, Alabama) and "tried to use the Oprah Coupon. Eufaula KFC took the coupon, but had a special line for "oprah coupons", there was a 50 minute wait, the only sides tme manager gave with the coupons was mashed potatoes and green beans (no other option unless you paid), plus the place was smoke (from grease), and very dirty. Second visit in Oneonta, Alabama - the manager said they were not taking coupons, but had a form to fill out for a rain check (the manager said they did not have enough chicken for the coupons -- I was one of 5 customers in the store and they had tons of chicken cooked and sitting there). Third visit was May 12 in Troy Alabama. The manager there said they were not taking coupons because they did not have enough good, but they sure as hell had plenty to sell! I will never visit a KFC again -- This whole coupon thing was a SCAM, the employees are rude, the KFC restrauants are not clean.