# ca restaurant gets caught buying/serving chicken from popeyes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264 "2017-10-19T02:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/41 "2017-10-19T21:44:53Z")
This was on the local news here in SF last night. From what I understand, the chicken is used in a chicken & waffle dish, which the restaurant’s customers who appeared on camera all raved about. The owner seemed completely upfront about using Popeye’s (though that may be in dispute). Either way, I’d say incorporating it into a menu item not available at Popeye’s makes the chicken an ingredient; not the same thing as simply re-selling another establishment’s product. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/42 "2017-10-19T22:07:06Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > It’s most definitely fried. Pressure fried. Also, it’s in the name. I thought they were just KFC now, with no meaning attached to the acronym? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/43 "2017-10-19T22:07:56Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I thought they were just KFC now, with no meaning attached to the acronym? I _knew_ somebody was going to point that out! 🙂 Cooking method still the same, so far as I can tell, though. If you’ve ever pressure cooked a chicken, though, you know what you get, and it ain’t something that resembles southern fried chicken. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/44 "2017-10-19T23:40:07Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > It’s most definitely fried. Pressure fried. Also, it’s in the name. Ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/45 "2017-10-19T23:46:54Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > 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. That’s better than what the bodega owners do around here which is buy items from shoplifters then resell them. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/46 "2017-10-20T00:11:43Z")
Great - this thread has me craving my Popeye’s three piece combo, spicy dark, Cajun rice. And I can’t have it because of this stupid elimination diet the doctors have me on. Curses! Regarding Popeye’s vs. KFC, I agree that Popeye’s kicks the Colonel’s butt. However, I have also found the KFC stores to always have a scummy feel to them - like a thin coating of grease on every surface. I have noticed this for decades. Almost every Popeye’s store I have been in has been clean and comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/47 "2017-10-20T00:38:17Z")
a thought I had was why don’t they just make a licensing deal with popeyes to buy the chicken wholesale … ironically this is how kfc got started was sanders sold his seasoning and showed restaurants how to make it and he was supposed to get something like 5 cents for every piece sold oh and advertise it was his chicken The problems were supposedly 1 the chicken was so popular that it out sold everything else in the restaurants which was a sore spot with some and he wasn’t getting his 5 cents per piece and almost all of the places never mentioned him … And one of his customers said “why don’t we just make the chicken” ? and it went from there ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264/48 "2017-10-20T02:14:41Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Yeah my favorite local NYC indie pizza place just serves us Papa Johns except with some added red peppers on top, tastes great! This is an abomination, unless it is a joke, in which case it is hilarious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ca-restaurant-gets-caught-buying-serving-chicken-from-popeyes/799264.md?page=2)