This is more of a commentary on how KFC has gone downhill than Chick-fil-a overcoming a boycott.
All of the KFCs around me (that I know of) are combined with something else, mostly Taco Bell, but there’s one near me that’s a KFC/A&W, so it seems like KFC cannot even support their own stores on their own.
No, I think 5 billion in sales most definitely shows overcoming a boycott.
KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut are all owned by the same company - “Yum! Brands”. Spun off from PepsiCo’s restaurant division.
KFC desperately needs to work on their brand. They need to go back to their classic production methods, spend the money on better training, and pull the license from the bottom 10% of their franchisees to scare the rest into compliance.
I’m boycotting them.
The fact that the nearest one is 220 miles away helps, I admit.
This.
Also, Chick-fil-A charges more for their food, thus increasing the amount of money that they make.
There are two Chick-fil-A’s in my town and I haven’t been to one months and to the other in YEARS. Their prices are not competitive and they aren’t open on Sundays which is a day where I might be in the part of town where their stores are located. Plus there is Chipotle across the parking lot…soooo…
Sadly, there is a single Popeye’s in my town. If it wasn’t terrible I would frequent that far more. Sooo…KFC gets the occasional chicken fast food business that I engage in.
I don’t shop there because I don’t like the owners politics but I don’t personally care how well they do, especially in relation to KFC. How is that a contradiction? I’m not boycotting them out of some moronic hope that they’ll go out of business or they’ll change their minds. I just don’t want to give them my financial support.
Exactly. And KFC has been devoting more resources to overseas expansion than to its US operations. From Yum’s website (and, BTW, Yum is one of the stupider company names out there), in 2009, there were 5,162 KFC locations in the US but 4,491 in 2013. Meanwhile, the number of locations in China went from 2,872 to 4,563 and in India from 107 to 361.
I honestly don’t recall Chick-fil-A being particularly expensive. Is there that much of a price disparity? The only thing I’ve ever had at a Chick-fil-A was a chicken sandwich (which, as I understand it, is the item to get) and that, to me, should be about $3-$5. What’s the difference between Chick-fil-A and KFC in this regard?
I know. My point was that there are plenty of free-standing Taco Bells and Pizza Huts, but I know of no KFC around me that is not combined with another brand.
Well, it probably still represents a weakness in the brand but I assume the corporate types just figured it easier to offer more variety/healthier or vegetarian choices through another well known brand rather than a Kentucky Fried Chicken veggie burger.
There are lots of KFCs in Canada, but I’ve never seen a Chick-fil-A, so it’s even easier to boycott than KFC’s crappy stores that as as dirty and expensive here as those described above.
So I boycott both. And if I could find a better browser — one I could read without going blind and with as many privacy and anti-tracking controls — I’d boycott Firefox, too.
I dislike their owner’s politics, but god, their chicken biscuits are good. And their chicken sandwiches are, too. Their side dishes, not so much. But their ice cream is OUTSTANDING. In short … I am a weak person … I didn’t do so well boycotting Cracker Barrel, either. Ask me to boycott Taco Bell or Domino’s Pizza, though, and I will be as tough as they come!
Chick-fil-A’s prices align closely to those of Wendy’s, which is the most expensive large fast food chain. Also Chick doesn’t sell individual pieces of chicken or buckets like KFC does. And it’s combos approach the $6-7 mark.
My boycott of Chik Fil A began when I tried to go to one on a Sunday and found it closed. WTF, I thought. Morons, I’ll never go to one again. That was before I found out about their politics.
Ok, sounds a buck or two more expensive, but not enough that I would go for a cheaper option if I clearly preferred it. I also don’t recall Wendy’s being more expensive than McD’s or BK’s to notice. No matter, as I don’t like Wendy’s and prefer M D’s.
For me, when it comes to chains, Five Guys and Fatburger are expensive, relatively speaking.
I was watching PBS News Hour the other day and they were discussing the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case. The pro-HL guy was making some kind of point using Chick-fil-A as an example. He pronounced it (twice) “Chick-filla”.
Maybe I’ve been pronouncing it wrong.
You haven’t been. The fault is with the newsmonkey.
Eh. When you choose to give your business a goofy, typographically odd name, I think you have to accept whatever pronunciation your customers decide to use on any given day. I bet those two pronunciations are about equally common, particularly for people who haven’t heard the name before.
I wonder if being closed on Sunday actually helps their bottom line? True, they’re losing sales that might occur in locations near shopping malls, but Sunday is also a big day for BBQs and Sunday brunch (in particular among the after church crowd) I can’t imagine Sunday evening is a big time for fast food places. By having only 6 days to spread employees out, that can probably help them reduce overtime as well.
I boycott them because of their politics, but realistically in Chicago, I eat very little chain fast food anyway. The occasional Chipotle trip is about it.