Not a bad scam if you can get away with it.
Tyler H. and friends recently decided to try out Sweet Dixie Kitchen, a comfort food restaurant in Long Beach that includes fried chicken on their menu. They were concerned when they saw employees walking boxes of Popeye’s Chicken right through the front door and taking them back to the kitchen. Tyler said he “ordered the Chicken and Waffles to see whether or not they were serving Popeyes to their customers.” When he realized for sure that this $13 dish did indeed feature Popeye’s tenders, he asked the waiter how they cook their chicken. With that, the waiter admitted they use Popeye’s chicken and then comped the entire meal.
The best part of the story is how the owner tried to explain it via The Comeback.
“We PROUDLY SERVE Popeye’s spicy tenders — the best fried chicken anywhere and from New Orleans — which are delivered twice a day. We also, in case you need to know, buy our gumbo from a friend who sells it at a local farmers market…We promote usually small batch local producers in our menu. The exception is Popeyes—we can’t fry at this location—and it the fried chicken I love so much and I ate a ton of it in the ATL. So I serve it.”
“I tried Costco chicken, I tried Restaurant Depot chicken, and then I went to dinner at Popeyes and knew this was the chicken we had to use for the store. It’s the best chicken…We wrote it on our board in the restaurant, ‘Imported from Louisiana this week, thank you Popeyes.’ It wasn’t a secret. We use the chicken as an ingredient in a menu item we made, we don’t use their sauces or anything else.”
Imported? Ingredient?
Just say you are a scammer and move along.
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