KFC

I’ve never felt so grossed out in a fast food restaurant until I visited this KFC/​Taco Bell in South City. The floors were sticky, rude cashier, there was no non-​soda choices in the fountain and the sticky soda was all over the cup lids, the place was a mess and let’s not forget that my food so bad that I couldn’t even finish it.
Taco Bell is one of the few fast food options I enjoy when craving a cheap quick meal. Don’t get me wrong, I still go for Taco Bell but now I know not to visit this location ever again!

Cole slaw in my take out was spoiled. I only had one bite and I’m hoping I don’t get sick. Also, prices here seem higher than at some other locations.

I’ve been to this kfc/​tacobell many times before and it was completely fine. Tonight, there was nobody in line so I thought it may go by quickly because I needed to clock bak into work. I ordered only 3 small items. A chicken grilled stuffed nacho, a kfc famous bowl, and a honey bbq sandwich. I over heard them asking each other if they knew how to make it, and it took about 5 mins before they even started to make it. Keep in mind there was no order ahead of mine or after mine. They put together the nacho and bowl, however I had to wait longer for my sandwich. Nobody was making it. Everybody was either cleaning or stocking. After about 13 mins, i finally got the sandwich. When I got to the car to eat quickly, i opened the sandwich after seeing how empty it looked from the outside and it was a ripped chiken tender with bbq sauce. Unlike before where it’s plentiful shredded chicken in bbq sauce. So I just quickly finished that and start on the nacho only realizing halfway through, there was NO CHICKEN. After that i just drove back to work to clock in and eat my bowl. When i started eating the bowl, i found it had no corn, and one small torn chicken strip in there. I was so outraged I just had to write feedback. This is unacceptable.

Pretty convenient.
Now I can head straight to KFC, straight to the freeway, then done with dinner by the time I get home. At the same time, I can order my food for tomorrow’s lunch so that works out pretty well for me. Been growing up eating KFC whether it be with the bucket or, the the value meals so, there’s nothing too extravagant on this one.
Order
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Popcorn chicken
. Sometimes too much breading is just that. Too much.
Chicken pot pie
. This always smells so good that I forget that it’s hot. Because it’s hot and I’m so excited to eat, I end up burning my tongue. No bueno. There’s gotta be a caution on that dish.
Steak fries
. Always my highlight. It’s tasty and it’s crunchy. Much better than McDonald’s fries, in my opinion
But alas, I’m probably going to head over there after work due to its convenience. Unless I figure out something more healthy.

I got food poisoning here 2 weeks ago. The Mexican Pizza tasted like kerosene and the chicken was dry. I never thought I would say this… But this experience made me not want to go to a KFC/​Taco Bell ever again. Avoid this location!

Once every six months or so I crave, I mean CRAVE me some fried chicken from KFC, you know, with the box mashed potatoes, not so sure gravy, hoping it’s just coleslaw, some buttered up no nutritional value of any sort corn on the cob, biscuits, and of course, a Diet Pepsi (you don’t serve Coke) to balance out my calorie intake and all. And I know I’m not the only one.
Clearly this is a fast food joint and a greasy one at that so please don’t think my expectations were super high to begin with. Plus I pretty much know what I’m going to get here. This visit was special.
What got them one star is the following:
I arrived and stood in line behind about eight people. The lady ordering at the register needed time to figure out what she was getting, I’ve been there so I get it. But it took forever. After waiting in line for about ten minutes for this one lady and watching the rest of the staff, I started to get a bad feeling and decided to leave. This is exactly why I go anti-​fast food for months/​years on end, this feeling/​acknowledgment of what we all know but ignore when we want to eat crap…
This place is run by teenage boys and a few girls. Say what you will but teenage boys are not known for a.) being super clean unless it maybe involves them particularly and b.) aware of their surroundings enough to be appropriate/​professional at their place of work. It can be considered a lot to expect, especially if they are left to their own devices without mature adult supervision which was what I witnessed at KFC on this occasion.
One kid was bringing in the coleslaw from the back while two other boys were messing around talking, laughing and not working at all. It was a joke and I felt that they thought everything was funny, maybe even tainting the food? I can’t think about that. Maybe I’m just paranoid.
This location is really dirty. Now that I’m grown up, I wanted to grab Junior and his friend by the ear, hand them rags and direct them to cleeeeeeeeean. But I didn’t because the law would probably frown upon that and people would think I was crazy (we all have thoughts we don’t act on, don’t judge me).
So we left. I called Big Daddy to let him know his chicken pot pie was no more and I was going to the store. It was still hard to leave because I had fried chicken on the brain but I did.
Went grocery shopping, came home, had to leave really quick but my fella wanted that pot pie so he called me telling me he was going to get his and what did I want.
I get home and the first thing he says was «that was gross and I’m in my right mind to call the owner since he has been there for a while, honey you need to do your Unilocal thing. It’s run by teenagers, it’s dirty and it was really gross plus the kids were laughing and swearing while they were talking like no one else was there.»
Shocking.
It would be awesome if I could visit the KFC four minutes from my house. I cannot go back for at least six months because I won’t crave it again until at least than AND more importantly until your location is sanitized and you hire at least one ADULT to oversee the raging hormonal teenage boys/​girls that you currently have running the place. As nice as they may be as people, they have no business running this establishment and with only two stars on Unilocal,this might be something to consider.

BUYER BEWARE — this is not your run-​of-​the-​mill KFC! It’s worse! I arrived about 7 PM and was served dry chicken, luke warm mashed potatoes and sat in the middle of an empty but dirty restaurant. I had the displeasure of discussing my bad experience with the management, but they couldn’t have cared less. Yes, there is a small parking area and that is a great reason to keep driving to Popeyes!

Update — This location really has issues. Went last night and the siuation was… no chicken for ½ hour. Dear KFC — Offer your customers a free drink or SOMETHING when you are a chicken place with NO chicken. I took 2 wings and 2 drumsticks (which we don’t really care for) because they did have those. But it was over 5 bucks for their tired leftover chicken.
I mean it about the free drinks. We ALL know the fountain sodas cost you almost nothing. You need to show customers that you care that they will have to wait…
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KFC seems way too expensive and mediocre at best. Has to be the most expensive 8 pieces (whole chicken) anywhere and it’s just not very good. Lousy dinner tonight that cost $ 30.00. We were both very displeased.
One star for having Diet Pepsi in the soda fountain. Not coming back again for KFC, may come back for the Taco Bell and Diet Pepsi.
But Yuck! $ 30.00 of not very much crappy food.

Typical KFC, not too shabby.
The cheesy bacon bowl is a delicious heart attack in a plastic bowl. Every bite was filled with heart throbbing saturated fat induced calories. Really good though.
Bacon, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, cheese. What more can one ask for?

Popcorn Chicken! Yummmmmm

You can bag on the lack of nutrition and high fat in their menu, but you can’t bag on their consistency. KFC/​Taco Bells taste exactly the same no matter which restaurant you get it. The problem with this location? Everything. The 1 star is for this particular location, not KFC’s food. The parking is horrible during lunch hours. The way the parking lot is set up, one way in, one way out, and where it shoots you out on the street are just jacked up. The tables seem semi-​clean once you find parking and the service is good. But NOTHING can make up for the bad location.

So my friend was anxious about the up coming KFC Double Down. And I’ll admit, I thought it would be the sandwich of sandwiches. However I was mistaken. The sandwich was like a freaking Greek Tragedy.
I would have been better off taking a bucket of salt and thrown it at my face. I would rather take my tongue and hammer it until it can’t taste anything any more.
It came down to this, two dry pieces of chicken, plastic like cheese and bacon. Now I am a firm believer in any thing tastes good with bacon. However in this case, I think it would taste slightly better with a quart of water. Because that’s how much you need in order to take this crap and swallow it. I, obviously am not a full on Unilocaler, but frankly, I think I’m going blind to the amount of salt it had.
So forget the ambiance, service and all the other mojo around… Because I think it is best said, if you don’t want to live long and enjoy crappy food, have one of these pucks.

A KFC and a Taco Bell in one establishment? Does it get any better?
The biggest problem with this place is that the employees never seem to clean the dirty tables… so many tables yet nowhere to sit!

Opens at 9am
Small lot but during lunches it is impossible to get a spot, being that the lot only fits 10 cars.

As a KFC, it was fine… it’s a friggin’ KFC for crying out loud. Gal there was super friendly…

It shares space with Taco Bell and there’s a review with the two of ‘em together… Since I won’t eat Taco Bell to save my life… I thought a separate review of Kentucky Fried Chicken was in order!
For $ 7, I got 3 pieces of chicken, roll, mashed potatoes and a coke. Not a bad deal at all! REALLY tasty and I guess it’s pretty healthy. Removed the skin to be extra good… Okay, I ate some of the skin too ;-)
Crowd varies. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes a bit scary. Especially late. I got there at 10pm since everything else in downtown South City shuts down… A nice 10-​minute walk back and forth.
The unusually attractive staff is really nice. Just make sure you don’t agree to buying something you didn’t intend. They kept asking me «would you like such and such…».
Nope, that’s it. If you’re talking about food that is… ;-)

I was served semi cooked chicken by this place and got sick off my ass. I still have the rest of this semi cooked chicken in my freezer. Watch yourselves at this place. The owner seems like a nice guy but raw chicken can get you real sick. So beware. If it happened once, it can happen again.