Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits

Kind and helpful staff. Great, tasty items on the menu like jambalaya. Clean and organized! It’s a great place to have a quick lunch or dinner

Chicken tasted great! Not greasy like other places. Did the drive-​thru and service was a little slow. Had the coleslaw as a side. It was different. Tasted like dill pickle juice was added to it.

Wow went there and the service was bad food was ugly had to throw it out and the manager was the worst part about it khamla was rude disrespectful and his body language made me fear for my safety DO NOT GO THERE!!!

My favorite Popeyes to go to! They never let me down, I go there so often, some of the staff know who I am!

The WORST sense of urgency EVER. I just waited in the drive through for 15 minutes only to get to the order box to have someone tell me «one moment» for another 5 minutes. I had to ask 3 times to place my order. Once I did I waited another couple of minutes for the car ahead of me to get their food and when I got mine… cold chicken and stale cold fries. Terrible.

This popeyes is the best! They never mess up & always get the order right even tho they dont speak all the way english lol. And sometimes they put extra chicken in my order & theres nothin wrong with that. Employees are super nice as well :)

I usually get shiety service here.
People with attitude hatting their jobs. SMH
But today this cashier named (Tanya) was nice and polite… yay
Hopefully stays that way.

I only come here on 1.69 leg and thigh Tuesday. The place is a rip off otherwise. Yes it is the ghetto shack but the chicken is good, just stay away from extras and put your CASH in your front pocket-​durr right? The reason i say cash is they charge you for debit and can screw you. Happy Eating!

Go to popeyes like once or twice a year… wanted to order 5 two piece specials. First of all whoever was working the drive through could not understand what I was saying… maybe their intercom wasn’t working right? I had to repeat my order twice. Then I asked for some blackened ranch and mardis gras sauce… so she says it’s 25 cents extra and i say ok fine… then she says they don’t have mardis gras sauce… so i tell her fine… just blackened ranch and buffalo sauce. I paid .50 cents extra… so when I get to the window I pay and look in the bag… no sauce. I tell her politely that I asked for sauce and she rudely snaps at me and says .we don’t have any ranch sauce!!! I ask her what kind of sauces we have… apparently she wanted to get rid of me right away so she throws 2 buffalo sauces in my hand. I drive away frustrated and didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Then I feel something leaking and it turns out it’s coming out of the buffalo sauce container. not just one… but both of them. I can only think that she was pissed off and maybe squeezed both containers and handed them to me in order to piss me off… well it sure worked. Condiments matter to me A LOT… as you can tell. Every time I ask for sauce at this location there isn’t any (or are they just lying and don’t give a damn because they’re too lazy to give out sauce?) Whoever is the manager there needs to keep on top of things and order supplies. Their customer service sucks big time!!! Well… what can I say? I give them ¼ of a star. Like most fast food places… YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR… come here to eat if your standards are low and you don’t mind being barked at by the employees that hate their miserable jobs… Hey If you hate your job so much then STOP working there!!! Hahahahaha!!!

Decently clean location and the chicken connoisseurs were great! Being new to the area I asked a few coworkers where to find one and bam, close by! To my palette’s pleasure the chicken was fresh, cooked right with a hint of spices!
I went around 3:30pm and there was about 4 customers hanging around, so the speediness could have earned that covenant 5^th star.
Despite being near the «area to avoid» the workers and cleanliness works for me!

Ghetto! Watch your wallets, phones and everything else. Slow service but the area the restaurant is in is horrible!!!

Long arsh line in da hood waiting for da grub! Trying #12 with the windows n doors locked! They have a security guard on-​site in side checking your beans n rice!

They are petty thieves with terrible customer service. Long story short, I paid with my debit card and after ten minutes of waiting for the transaction to clear I decided to check my bank account on my cell phone. I handed my phone to the drive through witch so she could see that $ 10.47 at Popeyes had just cleared my account. The owner comes over and says we can’t give you anything, come back tomorrow, if the transaction posts to my account, I’ll give you a refund. Whoa, come back tomorrow? I call my bank, put the call on speaker, it said «a transaction for $ 10.47 at Popeyes Chicken has posted your account», what more do they need?
The owner proceeds to tell me how it’s a technical difficulty, my point exactly, you’re lame technology is inconveniencing your customer so as the owner it’s you duty to make it right, that’s what I do at my place of business. Wrong, the owner decided it’d be better to have a customer vocalize her discontent in front of 10 other customers than to give up a paid for 3 piece meal, how long do they expect to stay in business making poor decisions like that?
I was not coming back to get my $ 10.47 the next day, it wasn’t worth the gas. Instead I rolled back through the drive thru and set there long enough for several customers to get mad and leave, the ones directly behind me were pissed, and several more drove by and said forget it the line is too long. The security guard tried to convince me to leave, but I was waiting on OPD so I could get my money back. True to form OPD didn’t come so I got to cost Popeyes a few dollars, I know you Unilocalers are going to be like, why inconvenience the other customers but as far as I’m concerned the owner could have a put an end to it if he really cared about the other customers. But no because he’s simple.

You drive up.
You hurry up and order or some dumb-​ass in a Cadillac behind you honks.
You are accosted by the speaker set at super-​sonic.
You are asked in a scream wanting to know if you want spicy or hot, even if you said spicy already.
You pay.
Cadillac asshole honks again.
They give you the meal.
They forgot half the order.
You are too exhausted to go back, so you post a sarcastic Unilocal in hopes that your bitter anger will be appeased.
(and it is).

Last year on my last trip to Oakland to watch the Raiders my cousin and I were looking for dinner and to take back to our Motel since there was boxing on HBO, stopped by this place and the drive-​thru was fine, a few cars in front of us but it moved smooth. They asked if we needed anything before we took off and they were more then friendly to supply us with any items we might need such as napkins, utensils and dressings.
Next time i am in Oakland i will stop by and eat from here again if time permits.
Area is just like any other place i have been too. Not bad in my view.

Apparently this store has decided that customer service isn’t on their top 5 list of priorities.
Every time I come here, there’s a wait because they’re out of one thing or another. Last night, they were out of biscuits.
They were also clearly more concerned about getting the place cleaned up ahead of close than they were about COOKING FOOD. There were four cars parked in the lot waiting for their orders. I’d say out of a crew of 5, maybe 2 were actually handing us pesky customers.
The management here needs to rearrange their priorities.

So Deep East Oakland is not known for posh restaurants so all you haters need to adjust your expectations and maybe use the bathroom AT HOME like normal people do.
Look it’s well lit — with a huge armed security guard — and they make your food fresh if you ask — and even the drive-​thru is pretty quick — and the food is as good as any other Popeye’s — which is pretty good for $ 8.99 — 5 piece chicken 2 biscuits and 2 sides — a meal for 2 for $ 10 out-​the-​door.
gotta be realistic folks…

Hey! Popeye’s is having an unadvertised Super Tuesday 2 piece special — leg and thigh — for only $ 1.29! Don’t be expectin’ sides and all that, this special is chicken only! Add two large sides and feed a family of three for less than $ 15! And if you pay with plastic — credit vs. debit, you can save an additional $.79!
Can’t beat that in this ‘hood — my girlfriend overheard it on BART — check your local listings!

Not sure if this is the location nearest Alameda (inside the strip mall with Boston Market and Big Lots next to 880). In any case, this review applies to the entire chain. I work in Downtown Oakland now, so I go to the City Center location most frequently.
Of all the major fried chicken chains, Popeye’s is my all-​time fave. I like the crunch of the batter and not as overwhelming as the Colonel’s, where sometimes you need to gnaw through an inch of extra-​crispy coating before you hit actual meat. Popeye’s spicy recipe is the best, just the right amount of heat. I’m not a fan at all of KFC’s Original recipe. It’s too greasy for me, and I’ve never cared for the 11 secret Herbs & Spices (though it’s marketing genius). Church’s is just «a’ight» and will do in a pinch.
My one favorite memory, and all you need to know about Popeye’s: I was visiting family several years ago in New Orleans. Since we didn’t have any Popeye’s near us back home, my brother and I decided to check it out at the River Walk’s massive food court. After I got my bag of food from the cashier, I asked for some butter for the biscuits. Instead of tossing a couple packets in, the young lady replied deadpan, in a thick Lousiana/​Ebonics/​rapidfire accent: «Our biscuits ah buttah’d fo’ times.» Me: «Excuse me?» Cashier: «Our biscuits ah buttah’d fo’ times.» Me, in my head, slow on the uptake: «Ohhh… ‘Our biscuits are BUTTERED FOUR TIMES.’» Translation: «Sir, trust me, you don’t want any more butter!»
As any self-​respecting fried chicken aficionado knows, Popeye’s sells 2 pieces of chicken (leg & thigh; no substitutions) for $ 1.29 every Tuesday. Too insane to pass up, and worth the extra wait in line in these tough economic times.
Finally, not all locations carry it, but be sure to ask for the Apple jelly for your biscuits. Just skip any extra butter.

Sure there are a lot of things in today’s world that could make one depressed. A few off of my short list are looking at your stock portfolio, seeing a negative sign next to equity earned in your house if you bought in the last five years, watching the Bachelor or seeing a girl who was famous for making a porno while she laid there like a dead fish and got peed on rake in the dough.
I can sincerely say eating at Popeye’s can be added to that list. First this location was out of white meat, and wings. Second, I feel bad for the guy behind the counter who was being treated like a slave to the patrons who whose concept of manners meant barking orders out. Third, my chicken was bland, lifeless and something my dogs would probably turn away at.
Perhaps that so called big butt girl who made the porno ate here before filming what she is now known for. After all the only thing that is probably lower and more depressing than eating here is craving attention so bad you’ll let someone pee on you to get people to look.