KFC to retire most food items

[Anonymous No.20450826]

KFC announced that it is testing a new concept dubbed “KFC Original” at select locations across Florida. The menu is meant to be paired down to focus on the core KFC original recipe chicken and serve a better product. According to those that went, this means they cut the following menu items:
>Fill-Up Box
>Chicken Sandwich
>Spicy Chicken Sandwich
>Pot Pie
>Mac & Cheese
>Sweet Corn
>All Desserts
>Most combos
This means that all these items will soon likely be retired chain-wide after the test ends as they want a closer focus on the core item the way Chick Fil A and Raising Cane's does
https://www.fastfoodpost.com/kfc-tests-new-kfc-original-concept-at-select-locations-in-florida/

[Anonymous No.20450832]

>>20450826
Based, I only ever get the chicken anyways

[Anonymous No.20450833]

KFC has been going down the shitter. They ruined the Zinger Tower burger, the only item on their menu I enjoyed, by replacing the spicy salsa with a sweeter, less spicy orange sauce.

[Anonymous No.20450839]

>>20450826
KFC has already announced it's plan to capitalize on "developing markets". KFC locations have been decreasing in the US for almost 20 years at this point.

[Anonymous No.20450842]

>>20450833
>KFC has been going down the shitter.
They should have focused on providing high quality food at a high price point instead of providing shitty food at a high price point.
There was a time when I would've considered going to KFC instead of my local supermarket that sells fried chicken for a fraction of the price.

[Anonymous No.20450846]

Competency crisis strikes again!

[Anonymous No.20450860]

>>20450842
They had a bit of a monopoly going on like subway for a bit. Then competition caught up and surpassed them.

[Anonymous No.20450870]

>>20450826
this is how kfc works pretty much everywhere else on earth except the weird buffet stores in asia

[Anonymous No.20451155]

>>20450826
expect this to happen everywhere due to inflation and rising food costs. they (and soon most restaurants) will cut down on the variety of offered items

[Anonymous No.20451163]

KFC is dying

[Anonymous No.20451424]

>>20450826
the pot pie and mac and cheese were fucking goated but other than that this is probably a good thing.

[Anonymous No.20451431]

My supermarket's hot bar fried chicken is better and literally 1/4th the price. Haven't been to KFC since the early 2010s.

[Anonymous No.20451449]

>>20450826
That mean they're bringing corn on the cob back?

[Anonymous No.20451450]

>>20451431
Yeah probably every other week I get an 8pc for $6 on mondays.

[Anonymous No.20451474]

>>20450826
Sound good. I hope if successful it spurs a trend of quality > quantity in other chains. It's a known tell that the shorter the menu, the better the restaurant generally (unless you are Cheesecake Factory that doesn't obey the laws of Man or Nature). The potential is there, just look at their Japanese division, and yes this is a case where
>Thing :|
>Thing Japan :O
absolutely applies

One advantage that KFC will always have over home cooking (apart from not fooling around with quarts of excess used oil) is the Pressure Fryer. Attempting to recreate that process at home is essentially building a bomb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAnhxqlxSkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCMg2pflP9k

[Anonymous No.20451487]

>>20451474
Pressure relief valves, how do they work?

[Anonymous No.20451633]

>>20450826
Hopefully, genetically engineered chickens will insinuate their meats to you like expensive whores, whilst the chef guides you on what spices you might like to add. Then the chickens, flour and season themselves and then jump gleefully into the hot oil and die cuckooing "have a nice day"

[Anonymous No.20451640]

If KFC wants to have a chance of surviving, they will need to start accepting EBT, also known as foo skramps (food stamps). Hungry gentlemen and ladies of Black color will be swarming the place.

[Anonymous No.20451680]

>>20451640
SNAP (the current name for food stamps) is just one of many government entitlement programs that can be loaded on to an EBT card. SNAP cannot be used to purchase hot prepared food. If KFC wanted to get SNAP customers, they'd have to sell cold chicken. That's what supermarkets do so that SNAP customers can buy fried chicken from them while those paying for their own food can get the hot chicken.
When you see people buying hot (as in temperature, not spiciness) food with an EBT card, they're using some benefit other than SNAP. That most common is TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) which unlike SNAP, is mostly unrestricted on what it can be used to purchase.
Some convenience stores allow customers to microwave their food after purchasing with SNAP. A frozen burrito can be bought with SNAP and then heated up in the store's microwave but if it is heated up before purchase, SNAP cannot be used to pay for it.
There's a small exception for elderly homeless people in a couple of states that does allow them to buy food at select restaurants since the they don't a kitchen. The RMP (Restaurant Meals Program) lets these select individuals to get food from a few vetted restaurants (mostly Subways) in cities like Detroit. The vast majority of SNAP recipients cannot use SNAP benefits at restaurants.

[Anonymous No.20451693]

>>20451680
I wonder why President Obama didn't put a special rule in place so Black people of color could use SNAP to buy hot chicken from KFC, Church's, and Popeye's
I mean, you have to admit, it does seem like he was doing his best to keep the Black man and woman down
I understand now why there was nearly a decade of fiery but mostly peaceful protests; when you take away a person of color's fried chicken (or the last chicken wing at a cookout), they gonna wild out, gnomesaying?

[Anonymous No.20452165]

>>20450860
They don't even cook chicken the same way they used to, though. That's part of why quality is so shit.

[Anonymous No.20452168]

>>20451633
This is the future you want.

[Anonymous No.20452183]

>>20451680

Very insightful, thank you

[Anonymous No.20452215]

>>20452183
Nta but there is a depth to this world that most people (fortunately) never know about. I've met sweet old ladies who used these programs to help ends meet between menial jobs. Then there's the bodegas doing cash-for-EBT scams so that bums can buy cigarettes and drug cartels can launder money. But I've met enough honest people to be grateful because who knows, any of us might eventually need it, life can suck sometimes.

[Anonymous No.20452253]

>>20450860
retarded take. KFC's quality of ingredients and food prep just got worse and worse over the years. I stopped going there about 5 years ago because the food was so low quality, and it had nothing to do with competition.

[Anonymous No.20452272]

>>20450826
Lets be real OP. Colonel Sanders said the food tasted like shit 60 years ago and I'm not old enough to remember but I'm confident it hasn't improved. Fillup boxes don't fill you up anymore, they're just going to change it to a $10 box like they did for tacobell. They lost the chicken sandwich wars because other places do chicken better. Who the fuck gets a frozen and reheated pot pie thats been in a warming tray for 4 hours? Mac&cheese across the board from popeyes to cfa to golden chick just sucks. over-boiled pasta, artificial cheese, and its either watery or so old its chewy. Sweet corn has never been a seller and who gets desserts at kfc? fat mexicans thats who.

Oddly enough McDs did the same thing a few times with their anus burgers, big n tasty, and chicken selects. They got tired of being the "its garbage but its cheap" restaurant and is the reason it kicked off renovating their restaurants to the soulless clinics they are today. KFC under Yum! branding is doing the same thing with taco bell and pizza hut, KFC is just last it seems. Who knows, maybe they'll use something other than powdered potatos, and bland chicken.

[Anonymous No.20452393]

>>20452215

When I first started working, I worked at a take-n-bake pizza place that accepted EBT. They could do that because the food was not cooked therefore were classified as groceries. I later found out that some EBT users would resell the pizzas for cash but my boss didn't care because they still got their money. It was an interesting lesson to learn.

[Anonymous No.20452465]

>>20450826
Hey fellow Annon,
This is indeeed bad news but you can still get Delicious McChickens to scratch that samdwich itch. 4/$5 in the app. Bapbap bababa I'm loving it!

Thanks,
Derko

[Anonymous No.20452480]

Last few years they started cutting pieces in half to count as full pieces.
Chicken is still great.
Spicy chicken sandwich was great but haven't had it recently.

The only problem all fast food places are having is kikes printing free money and destroying the average person's ability to afford food and shelter. If it wasn't 10x the cost, I'd only eat fast food.

[Anonymous No.20452740]

>>20450826
KFC is getting bent over a barrel and ass fucked by Popeyes with there six different flavor chicken wings. KFC had wings for a couple months and then they ran out and stopped selling them. Dumb fucks deserve what they get for being this fucking stupid. Instead they release a nasty ass fucking Chizza. Fucking idiots deserve to go under.

[Anonymous No.20452750]

>>20450826
kfc testing something in one single location is not them completely tearing down their entire menu you dumb fuck. either way they only need to bring back wedges and id eat there every day

[Anonymous No.20452756]

>>20452750
>id eat there every day
yeah you would, fatass

[Anonymous No.20452908]

>>20450826
it's over. My Biriyani....

[Anonymous No.20452927]

>>20451450
Monday is the worst day to go for groceries so that is probably why.

[Anonymous No.20452949]

>>20450833
The new supercharger sauce is awful.

[Anonymous No.20453019]

>>20452908
I assume rice is about to get a lot more common in the US, aren't sides of rice much cheaper than even powdered potatoes and fake mac n cheese or any other side including fries?

[Anonymous No.20453072]

>>20450826
>Mac & Cheese
good riddance. KFC's Mac n cheese was vile.

though it's interesting they chose to get rid of it instead of making it better.

[Anonymous No.20453076]

>>20451487
YEAH SURE LETS SQUIRT HOT OIL EVERYWHERE

[Anonymous No.20453091]

>>20451680
>>20451693
What a weird arbutrary rule. Here in Sweden, if you're on benefits you just get money that you can do whatever you want with. Its entirely up to yourself to spend it on whatever you deem is necessary.

[Anonymous No.20453199]

>>20450833
Japan accounts for like 80% of KFCs profits and 80% of those they take during the month of December
they're completely mogged by 7/11 and Familymart

[Anonymous No.20453592]

>>20452272
>fat mexicans
fastest growing demographic

[Anonymous No.20454005]

>>20450826
most of this is no real loss, the sandwich especially was very disappointing. i don't think i've ever had a good experience eating at KFC, kinda boggles my mind that they're an international chain

[Anonymous No.20454007]

>>20451474
doesn't the japanese kfc example go against your thesis though since they seem to have a more varied menu?

[Anonymous No.20454242]

kfc is and will continue to be worthless to me until they bring the double down back, with the original sauce this time.

[Anonymous No.20454248]

What a horrible timeline.

[Anonymous No.20454270]

>>20453091
America is a lot bigger of a place so it has to stretch its benefits much further, and society accounts for this in a weird way. America generally pays you more than a european would make on any individual job, often by a HUGE factor, but you get much less safety net because you’re expected to access and pay for any services you use al a carte, besides health care, which your employer will either pay for or subsidize.

It’s therefore a great country to be employed, housed and have a job, and a REALLY rough place if you’re missing one or more of the above.

[Anonymous No.20454272]

>>20453091
Oh look, it's another eurotard from a country not full of pavement apes babbling on about how things are different in their country without pavement apes. Thanks for chiming in. Once we are free of pavement apes, maybe something you said will have some value.

[Anonymous No.20454364]

>>20450826
>the only way to compensate for the competency crisis it to force focus on one single thing

[Anonymous No.20454365]

>>20450833
Fucking chicken treat used to actually lightly spice their twists but now there's nothing at all so you have to buy their seperate kamikazie sauce and it's nice but it's a much stronger heat than the old twist spice was and sometimes I just want something mild

[Anonymous No.20454372]

>>20451474
Speaking of thing japan the 7-11s here in australia recently came under more direct japanese ownership and I just read a thing today of them basically saying they're gonna start copying the japanese way more, should be interesting to see, although we don't have them on every street corner like some countries do.

Though I imagine in that case it's the exact opposite of a shorter menu, adding more services

[Anonymous No.20454376]

>>20453091
If something seems strange to you about america stop and think about the presence of west africans

[Anonymous No.20454404]

>>20453091
The American welfare system is a bloated, bureaucratic mess because conservatives would rather spend spend the money on red tape than possibly give it to a poor person who doesn't "deserve" it.

[Anonymous No.20454425]

>>20454404
Really? I'm on SNAP right now. I filled out a form online, did a phone interview with a social worker, and now get almost three hundred bucks per month for food. The restrictions on what I can buy are minimal. As long as it has a "Nutrition Facts" label and isn't a warm prepared meal, I can use my EBT card to buy it. While some things are a bit weird, like the whole cold chicken versus warm chicken thing, it's basically free money. The only people I ever see complaining about it are those who want to be able to use it to buy fast food or things like alcohol or cigarettes. Pretty much every grocery store and even many convenience stores accept the card. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

[Anonymous No.20454447]

>>20454425
I believe California snap has a special rule that you can use ebt for fast food as long as you don't dine inside. So if you ever see a people eating outside a mcdicks in shitty weather, that's why.

[Anonymous No.20454477]

>>20450826
Apparently, KFC only use a tiny tiny tiny tiny packet of the "original recipe", so you can technically call it an original recipe chicken

[Anonymous No.20454484]

>>20451474
No, the actual reason a lot of fast food franchise have higher qualities in a lot of foreign market is because it can't compete with the street foods for value, so it went for a more upscale niche. While in the United States, street food market is very hard to establish thanks to how spread out the cities and the immense reliance on cars, therefore the franchises basically occupy the street food market and thus are incentivized to make cheap or low quality shit.

[Anonymous No.20454495]

>>20454484
Chick-fil-A would find it harder outside the US market since their quality is basically the baseline outside the US

[Anonymous No.20454503]

I briefly worked at a KFC twenty years ago in my teens. I have not eaten there or any fast food joints since. You wouldn't eat at KFC for so many reasons, starting with low quality of chicken, frying oil that is "cleaned" with an open bucket machine at the same time we were mopping the floor so the crap on the floor and detergents ended up in the breading layer on your food, and the prepackaged spices/chemicals we added. The corn, dehydrated potatoes sans gravy and coleslaw were the only items we would consider touching when I worked there. Disgusting, and corporate clearly didn't care about human health then.

[Anonymous No.20454528]

>>20454484

Street food is harder to establish in the US due to regulations lobbied for by the fast food giants. God forbid they have competition that forces them to shape up or ship out

[Anonymous No.20454545]

>>20454528
No its not, food trucks are expensive to startup but they're not difficult in terms of regulations. General food safety stuff all restaurants have to comply with, then they have to drive to their diners instead of diners coming to them.

[Anonymous No.20454665]

>>20450826
>current year
>eating KFC
Popeyes bros, laugh at the plebs with me. Lol, lmao even

[Anonymous No.20455139]

>>20450826
The mac and spicy chicken sandwich were two of the three good things left at KFC
This is the end for them, time for them to be kept afloat by money from Taco Bell

[Anonymous No.20455153]

>>20454404
>The American welfare system is a bloated, bureaucratic mess because conservatives would rather spend spend the money on red tape than possibly give it to a poor person who doesn't "deserve" it.
what a brain-dead take this is

[Anonymous No.20455171]

>>20455153
The truth? Ever notice the billions spent in california alone to combat homelessness and homeless populations there are surging? Yeah; because government contractors can make essentially infinite money through red tape alone and very little money actually solving the problem.

[Anonymous No.20455447]

>>20455171
the problem could be solved by rounding them all up and putting them in work camps, but we all know which party wouldn't allow that to happen

[Anonymous No.20455513]

>>20454270
>which your employer will either pay for or subsidize.
lol

[Anonymous No.20455551]

>>20450833
This. In england its gotten worse year by year and they replaced the original zinger tower burger with a bbq and supercharger version. FUCK OFF YOU RETARDS.

[Anonymous No.20455614]

So theyre just going to be Canes but worse

[Anonymous No.20455623]

>>20455447
https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1784593694068203584

[Anonymous No.20456789]

>>20450826
>https://www.fastfoodpost.com
There are far too many fat fucks on this planet right now

[Anonymous No.20456793]

>>20450826
good. maybe they'll stop fucking the remaining shit up.

[Anonymous No.20457030]

>>20456793
it's nice to dream

[Anonymous No.20457103]

>>20451163
Millions must fry

[Anonymous No.20457106]

>>20450826
they should try hiring their original employees

[Anonymous No.20457428]

>>20451163
self inflicted. They change the original recipe, and ruined honey BBQ wings by not cooking them in the sauce...YEARS AGO, which is the last time i ate there regularly.

[Anonymous No.20457431]

>>20450826
I have never had cravings for fried chicken, so I can see why they're struggling. Moving away from solely chicken sounds like a solid strategy and I hope they expand to include fish, beef, and turkey in the future.

[Anonymous No.20457463]

>>20453091

America as a society historically values austerity rather than luxury. Additionally, unlike in Sweden where people who need assistance are either down on their luck or disabled or facing a family tragedy, the poor in America do it to themselves.

Not in the sense of:
>Why don't poor people just buy more money?

Rather, those on benefits here are often on it for generations. Intentionally not working, intentionally "injuring" themselves, things of that sort. It's a different ball game. As a result, a lot of politicians historically, and likewise the electorate, are uncomfortable with welfare of any sort. Our system is sort of a compromise between those who want welfare and those who don't.

Making it free money would not go over well in the U.S on a cultural level.

[Anonymous No.20457640]

>>20450826
all I need is 10 crispy for 10€ (ever tuesday in germoney)

[Anonymous No.20457954]

>>20457106
you mean white folk?

[Anonymous No.20457966]

>>20454484
Interesting thesis, well noted.

[Anonymous No.20458903]

This is a good thing
Less overhang, more focus on core products like CFA and Cane's will make for a better company both financially and in quality

[Anonymous No.20458946]

>>20450826
Good. Restaurants should only serve one (1) main thing, with two (2) customizations, and three side options (3)

[Anonymous No.20458954]

>>20450826
I don't know what any of that shit is, the only side I get from them is cole slaw.

[Anonymous No.20458956]

>>20453019
yeah, it's so cheap in the USA that we mass export it to Asia. Beans and rice is basically the cheapest diet you can live off of.

[Anonymous No.20459067]

>>20450826
>>20450833
They just missed earnings.
Unless prices start decreasing, they might start closing stores.

[Anonymous No.20459082]

>>20458903
KFC's only positive is having multiple options. This would've made sense when they weren't greaseball slop 20 years ago

[Anonymous No.20459098]

>>20455153
It's what the useless takers say, when none of it works on their worthless asses. TOTAL COPE.

[Anonymous No.20459403]

>>20450826
>cut the chicken sandwich
lol that's the only reason I even go to KFC anymore. The prices on buckets are insane.

If they think people in Florida are gonna show up excited to spend 25 bucks on a bucket of the same chicken they can get for 12 bucks at publix they're insane.

[Anonymous No.20459408]

All you need is chicken and fries/wedges, maybe mashed potatoes. Take everything else off the menu and focus on your strength.

[Anonymous No.20460938]

>>20454272
What are you talking about retard, Sweden IS full of pavement apes lmao.
this swede is also retarded however

[Anonymous No.20460948]

>>20454425
I don't know how it is in my country benefits wise, but the meal tickets we get from corporate jobs "supposedly" can't be used to buy alcohol or cigarettes but you absolutely can. I found this out when buying smokes along with groceries and the cashier just said "you know I can charge those to the meal ticket card right"

Taxes are insane here, so pretty much all jobs give those out cause it's a way to bump up your salary a bit without it getting taxed

[Anonymous No.20462122]

>>20450826
They supported Israel and are reaping what they sowed. Arabs and SEAians were their biggest fans.

[Anonymous No.20462185]

>>20450826
>paired down
its PARED. Pared down

NOT pair. Thats a different word and a different meaning

Jesus Christ why can't anyone spell anymore

[Anonymous No.20462216]

>>20452272
>anus burgers
Mmmm...

[Anonymous No.20462515]

>>20450826
KFC is usually ass, but when they had the double down come back like a year or two ago, I ate maybe 3 or 4 of them in one week. You got to order it without mayo though, otherwise it’s pig disgusting.

[Anonymous No.20462537]

KFC stopped putting popcorn chicken in their famous bowls and put in like 4 or 5 of their nuggets instead. It's not very filling anymore.

[Anonymous No.20462587]

>>20454484
dude kfc in Canada was miles better than American kfc (at least in '17)
its regulations and quality of ingredients
If pacos taco stand shuts down he can just have his cousin Jesus run jt

[Anonymous No.20462591]

>>20462185
Your mean

[Anonymous No.20462593]

>>20462587
I think Canada has started to phase out the saline injections in poultry and pork.
Our antibiotics and growth hormone regulations are way tighter than in the US as well.

[Anonymous No.20462609]

>>20457463
this is actually true in some ways, which is one of the reasons I despise a lot of boomers.
If I'm not trying to bust my ass taking advantage of some rebate or free shit by being a Karen, people act like I'm crazy
Twenty bucks isn't worth the fucking hassle
There's a reason this country has so many "sales". The average American will buy something they don't need if they think they're saving money because it's a "deal"

[Anonymous No.20462988]

>Mac & Cheese
But that's one of their few good sides. WTF am I supposed to order with my tendies?

[Anonymous No.20463156]

>>20454495
>>20462593
These comments are braindead retarded
Something as quality as CFA would demolish in the international market. KFC is doing business or ingredients no different in the US then they are in the rest of the world, and if you think think they specialize quality internationally only "because of a harder market" when they don't have to deal with competition like Chick Fil A, Popeye's, Cane's, Dave's Hot you are dumb as bricks.
Again, there's a reason KFC is top chain international but is declining to Quiznos level in the US. And that being its international strategy doesn't work in the US with higher quality offerings then it usually has

[Anonymous No.20463165]

>>20450826
More places should do this. Focus on what you're good at, nobody goes to KFC for mac and cheese.

[Anonymous No.20463170]

>>20450826
This is a good trend
McDonalds lost their way when they deviated from this

You can argue for chicken nuggets but that was the beginning of the end if you really think about it

[Anonymous No.20463176]

>>20463165
the new kfc menu should consist of only 4 things
>fried chicken (whole pieces, tenders are done)
>mashed potatoes and gravy
>potato wedges
>cole slaw

that's it except for drinks. do only that

[Anonymous No.20463209]

>>20463176
Fries and corn are fine.

[Anonymous No.20463214]

>>20463209
that's also a good suggestion but I want the wedges back

[Anonymous No.20463222]

>>20463214
Wait they stopped doing wedges? Why?

>Fries
>Wedges
>Curly fries

The literal perfect fried potato menu.

[Anonymous No.20463223]

>>20463222
they've been gone for a long time
they made the retarded decision to 86 the wedges and do french fries instead
fucking french fries at KFC my man

[Anonymous No.20463229]

The only things that are good at KFC
>wicked wigs
>hot and spicy
>zinger burger

[Anonymous No.20463232]

>>20463229
all gone

[Anonymous No.20463242]

>>20463176
They need to have one boneless option because bone-in is so unpopular right now
Nuggets are solid so likely them, but if not then tenders are needed but upgraded. Besides that all you list is all they need to do

[Anonymous No.20463250]

anyone remember when they rebranded to KGC and sold grilled chicken?

[Anonymous No.20463281]

finger fuckin' chicken

[Anonymous No.20463334]

>>20451680
Seems to be a state-by-state thing. In California, you absolutely can buy hot food at select restaurants.

[Anonymous No.20463338]

>>20463334
https://www.cdss.ca.gov/rmp

[Anonymous No.20463646]

>>20450826
>KFC to retire most food items
good, the only thing they should be selling is fried chicken. I have never eaten anything else they sold.

[Anonymous No.20463648]

>>20451680

[Anonymous No.20463651]

>>20452253
the food is the same, the prep by the "employees" is why it is often shit.