Kentucky Fried Chicken - KFC - Kan’t F’ing Cook
Service December 17th, 2005Ok, I live in Memphis, and God forbid I expect a least average service. So where did my travels in search of food take me this time, ahhh my to… yes to the local KFC’s. Let me set the scene, its Sunday night , just turned 9pm and I still haven’t had time to get dinner, so I enter my local KFC… 3 piece meal please!
Oh God did I really do this? I ordered chicken… my silly mistake…
“Sir we have no chicken we have to cook some more…”
A picture of that moment of me would have shown an empty expression wash over my face. “Sorry?” - I said.
“Sir we have no chicken cooked, you’ll have to wait!”
“How long?” - I said.
“About 30mins!”
What, do you have to kill it first? Tired and hungry and unable to face the thought of the KFC staff getting off their butts and working, I left. Driving home, a sudden flash of insanity came over me, I know I will try my other KFC… ( will I ever learn?) filled with a positive attitude that lighting could never strike twice in the same spot. I order my meal , 3 piece please, and what would Sir like for his side item, Ms KFC asked me? Hmmm Mac&Cheese please, I had to ask for that didn’t I.
“Well, we have to make some more up!”
“OK. that’s OK” - I said - “I’ll wait”.
“Sir it will be about 20 Mins!… 20 Mins, you’re joking, right?”
She wasn’t . From my last count cooking pasta is about 10mins, my imagination wondered as to what the other 10mins would be spent doing, maybe they grow the pasta on a tree outside and have to pick it. 20 mins to cook a Mac&Cheez, God help America. For the fun I decided to say… its ok I will wait… To be met with a blank expression from Ms KFC.
“It will be 20mins sir, and we aren’t cooking anymore tonight!”
I realized at this point yet again I had fallen for that distant dream of service in Memphis. Lucky I can laugh at it nowadays. So next time you eat at KFC and sample their award winning ( huh!) Mac&Cheese, just pause for a second to think that someone spent the whole 20mins cooking that. I guess you can’t rush perfection… so that still doesn’t answer as to why the hell one didn’t serve chicken and the other couldn’t cook Mac& Cheez.
I hate KFC!
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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February 3rd, 2006 at 8:31 am
God help America Indeed…
July 16th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
KFC does not prioritize cooking ability. KFC prefers to hire total “LOSERS” such as criminals, dope addicts, whores, inbreds and trailer trash. If a decent human being accidentally gains employment with KFC..,they are discriminated against……particularly if they are over the age of 40 or are physically disabled. KFC in Bethany, MO hires the lowest of the low. They do not put emphasis on personal hygeine. When they hire someone who really wants to WORK, they are placed in the kitchen and are stuck there. They are denied any extra training and are even denied breaks….while the “scum” takes hourly smoke breaks ( between food fights). I was quite healthy when I began working for KFC but after 7 months of inhaling flour dust I can no longer be physically active. I was dignosed with severe lung problems similar to “Black Lung” which was caused by breathing flour dust. KFC refuses to furnish masks for cooks. Harland Sanders is probably turning in his grave now.
September 6th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Who on earth eates KFC plus mac & cheese at the same time. Were you looking for good service or a heart attack!! Next time save yourself & your ateries.
July 21st, 2007 at 1:49 pm
I_Hate_Punks2002 is right, I started working at KFC about 3 months ago, Im the day cook. I just do my job. I’ve been told I’m the best day cook they’ve ever had, I’ve never ran out of Chicken except on July 4th. But what do you expect? They have 1 cook during the day, trying to keep everything up. And not only do the cooks have to cook, they become everyone else’s bitch. If your a day cook at KFC your responsible for EVERYTHING. Even checking the times on the entire kitchen’s inventory, when that is clearly the manager’s job. I’ve had 1 break my entire time of being there, and that was at 10:00 AM in the morning, and it only lasted 15 minutes. When everyone else gets daily 30 minute breaks, plus 5 minute smoke breaks WHENEVER THEY WANT THEM!
My manager got angry at me the other day because we ran out of Crispy batter. And we ran out because he didn’t order any on the truck. But about the mac&cheese taking 20 minutes, it really does, but it always comes out burnt, so it should probably be cooked less. But, the chicken does NOT take 30 minutes, it takes 15 minutes for a crispy to fry after its prepared, maybe 5 minutes to prepare. Making it 20 minutes. And an original take 16 minutes and 30 seconds to fry, and probably 5 minutes to prepare as well. But night shift always uses the excuse of “We’re out of chicken” so they don’t have to cook any that night.
They put way to much stuff on the day cooks, and it’s really stressful. But even under all the stress, they shouldn’t run out of chicken, I never have. So it’s possible.