heres the story …MSN
is there a difference between buying premade chicken from say Sysco foods and just getting it from popeyes?
would you feel cheated if you found out your favorite restaurant did this ?
Restaurants buy a lot of prepared foods. A sandwich shop is using the same bread you can buy. The same condiments.
I don’t see a problem with a restaurants using another places fried chicken. The owner is very candid in saying she wanted the best fried chicken for her customers. I guess her insurance doesn’t allow fryers in the business?
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/10/17/california-restaurant-proudly-serves-popeyes-chicken-as-their-own-charges-13.amp.html
Well I’d get mad if I went to a Chili’s and ordered a hamburger and got a refurbished McDonald’s product.
But Popeye’s is great chicken. In a different ambiance that chicken would be worth more. Part of what you’re getting in this restaurant, I assume, is the ambiance, and other menu items besides chicken.
At my favorite restaurant I don’t order fried chicken, but if I did, and it was good, I’d be happy.
It’s a common thing for coffee shops to serve baked goods that were made by another business.
Yeah my favorite local NYC indie pizza place just serves us Papa Johns except with some added red peppers on top, tastes great!
What’s their markup, I wonder? I’m not that thrilled with hipster-ish places, so I’m not likely to visit this place, but I do try to encourage Kayla to make sensible choices with her money, and Long Beach isn’t that far away. Plus, if they expand into Fullerton, I’ll need to explain why she should just get her Popeye’s chicken at Popeye’s.
It’s called Sweet Dixie Kitchen, and they’re not allowed to fry things? You can’t have Southern cooking without frying things.
I agree Popeye’s chicken is good, but I’d still be pissed if I found out some frou-frou place was selling replated fast food stuff at frou-frou prices. If I want Popeye’s, I’ll go to Popeye’s.
I see places with signs saying “Proudly serving Starbucks coffee” or the equivalent, and I don’t have a problem with that. Doing it on the sly is a little weird, though.
The problem was they did not own up to it until someone caught them bringing in the Popeye’s chicken. Despite the owners claims about transparency, their previous advertising verbiage indicated that all their food was made on site. All of those references have changed since this to-do.
The OP sounds like a scene straight out of Gordon Ramsey’s “Kitchen Nightmares”.
I can understand sourcing baked goods because they are so labor intensive. But chicken tenders? Seriously, WTF?
Cite?
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The first thing I thought of is this (SNL sketch).
And, much as I like to mock hipsters, I don’t think it’s cool to pass off another restaurant’s food - in this case yummy yummy food - as your own. Especially if you’re charging double the price.
There was a well established bakery that my father-in-law used to go to which was purchased by a new owner. He went there several times after it changed hands, but my father-in-law no longer enjoyed their cakes because they tasted stale. So he started getting his baked goods from a supermarket down the road. He mentioned to the supermarket-baker-person behind the cake counter that he used to go to Acme bakery, but their cakes were now awful and he now preferred the supermarket stuff. She was surprised because she said the new owner of Acme bakery was now buying their cakes at this supermarket and just decorating them for resale. The 30-year old bakery closed less than a year after changing owners and reselling supermarket cakes.
Usually that means they’re using the same beans, not that they’re running down to the block to get a latte every time someone orders one.
Slightly related–a cousin of mine worked in a Dollar Tree for a time. She says that convenience store owners shop there, getting cartloads of things that they resell for a hefty markup.
Looking at their menu, fried chicken seems to be a tiny minority of the menu items so I can see a cost benefit to outsourcing that ingredient, but be honest and up front about doing it. This would not even be an issue if they did not try to pass it off as their own.
I can’t even find it on there. I assume the fried chicken biscuit? That’s about the only thing I see with the chicken in there.
For me, I don’t think I’d give a shit. I would prefer for them to have it stated up front, but if I like it, what do I care if they made it or went down the street and resold it to me at double the price? C’est la capitalisme. (And it doesn’t sound like they’re just serving it exactly in the way Popeyes would, but using it as an ingredient in their recipes, adding sauces or waffles or whatnot.) I mean, how is this different than me going to a Greek restaurant, ordering a gyros, and getting the same Kronos gyros that every other hamburger stand in Chicago gets and sells for half the price? I mean, yes, I guess they literally do cook it in house on the spit and not go across the street, but that’s not a significant difference in my mind. (And, yes, I do know many Greek restaurants make their own, but many don’t.)
I’d wondered if they had a weasel-word bit that’s misleading but arguably true, like proudly claiming every item on the menu is made locally or from local ingredients. (Because you can’t get more “local” than “not two blocks over”, amirite?)