My Pet Peeve of the day: If it's the only thing you sell, flippin have it!

[Cool-Beans]

If a place sold chicken and side dishes to be served with chicken...

Nothing other than chicken...

And it was called, "Mr. Chicken"...

And their slogan was, "It's all about the chicken!"...

Would you think that they'd be prepared for people to come in and ask for chicken?

If you would, you'd be wrong.

This is something that we never cease to be amazed by, no matter how many times we go to the chicken place and are told that we'll have to wait if we want chicken.

We talk to other people in there and they all say that they always have to wait forever for their chicken, too.

Not a big deal, but it is my pet peeve today.

 

[bicker]

Then you get the folks who complain that they get the chicken, get it home, and it is already cold.

 

[SAHDad]

Years ago, I worked at a KFC. And we did, at times, run out of chicken. Just as McDonalds, BK, etc try to have as few hamburgers ready as possible (to avoid spoilage - you aren't supposed to keep them more than a few minutes without selling them once they are made), we tried to have only a certain amount of chicken on hand at any time.

The main difference is that the chicken takes a lot longer to cook than a par-cooked burger. And, while people may come in an order 10 hamburgers, it was pretty common for people to come in an order a 21 piece bucket. You get a few extra of those coming through in a short period, and you can be down quite a bit of chicken before the next batch it done cooking.

If it happens a lot, then they need to look at how they are running things, but it does happen.

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

Maybe they should change their slogan to "Chicken that's worth the wait".

 

[Cool-Beans]

It happens all the time. If it were rare, it wouldn't be my pet peeve today. And like I said, it isn't just us. It happens to everyone, all the time.

They don't even attempt to EVER have ANY chicken ready until someone orders it.

Again, not a big deal. Just irking me a little right now.

If all you sell is chicken, at least consider the fact that people who walk in might want chicken, KWIM?

eta: They should change the slogan, lol.

 

[eliza61]

LOL. I once went to a restaurant called "Beefsteak Charlies" and they were out of steaks. I asked the same question. How can you possible be out of steaks? if I had to send a waiter down to the local supermarket I'd have steaks in a steak restaurant.

 

[MushyMushy]

Our Pizza Hut regularly runs out of pizza dough.

Pizza dough! Come on!

 

[dizluvah]

This made me laugh. DH and I always used to get upset at the KFC because any time we went in there they were out of chicken. This is in the town we lived in previously - about 5 years ago - and we still joke about it.

Total mismanagment but I assume the owner gets on the mgr about "wasted" product - so the mgr must keep folks waiting for chicken to avoid having extras just laying around. Not a good way to run a business IMHO.

Thanks for sharing in our frustration!

 

[mum4jenn]

It happens though. Restaurants depend on truck deliveries for their food and if the truck breaks down or is in a wreck, then the deliveries are late and therefore the food they ordered is not there when it is supposed to be.

A few years ago our schools were getting deliveries and after one school got their food the driver stole the truck with all the other schools food on it!!! Should anyone have been out of food...no...if the truck driver had not stolen the whole truck everyone would have had their food.

 

[legalsea]

Ok, had to post this, a partial transcript of The Cheese Shop sketch from Monty Python.

MOUSEBENDER (John Cleese):
Good Morning.
WENSLEYDALE (Michael Palin):
Good morning, sir. Welcome to the National Cheese Emporium.
MOUSEBENDER:
Ah, thank you my good man.
WENSLEYDALE:
What can I do for you, sir?
MOUSEBENDER:
Well, I was, uh, sitting in the public library on Thurmond Street just now, skimming through Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all peckish.
WENSLEYDALE:
Peckish, sir?
MOUSEBENDER:
Esurient.
WENSLEYDALE:
Eh?
MOUSEBENDER:
(In a broad Yorkshire accent) Eee I were all hungry, like.
WENSLEYDALE:
Ah, hungry.
MOUSEBENDER:
In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, 'a little fermented curd will do the trick'. So I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles.
WENSLEYDALE:
Come again?
MOUSEBENDER:
I want to buy some cheese.
WENSLEYDALE:
Certainly, sir. What would you like?
MOUSEBENDER:
Well, eh, how about a little Red Leicester?
WENSLEYDALE:
I'm afraid we're fresh out of Red Leicester, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Oh never mind, how are you on Tilsit?
WENSLEYDALE:
I'm afraid we never have that at the end of the week, sir. We get it fresh on Monday.
MOUSEBENDER:
Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout yeoman, four ounces of Caerphilly, if you please.
WENSLEYDALE:
Ah. It's been on order, sir, for two weeks. I was expecting it this morning.
MOUSEBENDER:
It's not my lucky day, is it? Er, Bel Paese?
WENSLEYDALE:
Sorry, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Dorset Blue Vinney?
WENSLEYDALE:
No.
MOUSEBENDER:
Brie, Roquefort, Pont-l'Évêque, Port Salut, Savoyard, Saint-Paulin, Carre-de-L'Est, Bresse-Bleu, Boursin?
WENSLEYDALE:
No.
MOUSEBENDER:
Gouda?
WENSLEYDALE:
No.
MOUSEBENDER:
It's not much of a cheese shop, is it?
WENSLEYDALE:
Finest in the district, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.
WENSLEYDALE:
Well, it's so clean, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
WENSLEYDALE:
You haven't asked me about Limberger, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Is it worth it?
WENSLEYDALE:
Could be.
MOUSEBENDER:
Have you- SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI UP!
WENSLEYDALE:
(To dancers) Told you so.
MOUSEBENDER:
Have you got any Limburger?
WENSLEYDALE:
No.
MOUSEBENDER:
That figures. Predictable really, I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place. Tell me:
WENSLEYDALE:
Yes, sir?
MOUSEBENDER:
Have you in fact got any cheese here at all?
WENSLEYDALE:
Yes, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Really?
(pause)
WENSLEYDALE:
No. Not really, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
You haven't.
WENSLEYDALE:
No, sir, not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.
MOUSEBENDER:
Well, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you.
WENSLEYDALE:
Right-O, sir.
MOUSEBENDER: (Shoots him)
What a senseless waste of human life.

 

[Cool-Beans]

It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.

The whole thing was funny, but that was my favorite line.

 

[welovedisneyx4]

Our Pizza Hut regularly runs out of pizza dough.

Pizza dough! Come on!

Ours does too!! I thought we were the only one! We rarely order from them any more b/c I got tired of ordering the pizza and going to pick it up, only to be told they didn't have any dough! Didn't you know that when I called to place my order?

 

[TheGoofster]

Legalsea, thanks for the laugh this morning.

Monty Python has a great way of mocking those little pet peeves in life.
I suppose the opposite of this would be the Spam skit, where about the only thing the restaurant has to offer is Spam.

Cool Beans, I feel your pain.

 

[englishteacha]

Our KFC is often out of certain kinds of chicken. One would think that if there's a high demand for, say, Extra Crispy, then they would make more Extra Crispy than the other kinds. Three times in a row we went to KFC and my DH wanted an Extra Crispy breast, and they didn't have it. The fourth time we went, it was the same cashier who had been there the previous times, and she gave him 2 pieces of the Extra Crispy because they had it and he hadn't gotten it the 3 times before! At least they tried to make it up to him.

 

[Bren's Mom]

I stopped at a local mexican place for a late lunch yesterday on the day to a doctor's appointment. They told me they had no chips. I said do you have tortilla? Yup, but no chips. OK, first...cut the tortillas and FRY them...how the heck do you think chips are made in the first place...and second, there is a grocery store 1 block away...Tostitos makes chips...buy some! Sheesh!!!! LOL

Totally get your chicken pet peeve!

 

[Imzadi]

I went to a Boston Market years ago, while they were still named Boston Chicken. They had run out of chicken. They tried to sell me their meatloaf. Umm, no, if I wanted the meatloaf, I would have ordered it in the first place. Now, I know why they changed their name - to push the other stuff when they run out of chicken.

And yes, I've been to a KFC that ran out of their original recipe.

 

[MushyMushy]

Our KFC is often out of certain kinds of chicken. One would think that if there's a high demand for, say, Extra Crispy, then they would make more Extra Crispy than the other kinds. Three times in a row we went to KFC and my DH wanted an Extra Crispy breast, and they didn't have it. The fourth time we went, it was the same cashier who had been there the previous times, and she gave him 2 pieces of the Extra Crispy because they had it and he hadn't gotten it the 3 times before! At least they tried to make it up to him.

That reminds me of our never ending quest to get the chicken pot pie from KFC! There was one winter when I was constantly sick and all I wanted was either a good chicken noodle soup or KFC chicken pot pie. Every single time my husband would try to get me the pot pie, they were sold out. One time he got exasperated and said, "What does it take to get a pot pie around here???" and the cashier admitted that they only made 3-5 a night and everybody wants them so they go fast. Now there's some good business sense for ya! He tried all winter and never did get me that chicken pot pie.

 

[Topper]

are told that we'll have to wait if we want chicken.

So they DO in fact have the flippin' chicken, you're just upset that you have to wait for it to be cooked to order, is that correct?

 

[dizluvah]

So they DO in fact have the flippin' chicken, you're just upset that you have to wait for it to be cooked to order, is that correct?

In my case, that is correct. But it is called Fast food for a reason, if I wanted to wait 15 or 20 minutes for it to cook; I could go home and make fried chicken myself.....

 

[Disney Doll]

We have a local restaurant that is NEXT TO a Super Stop & Shop (grocery store) & one night we went in for dinner, I ordered whatever dinner with a baked potato with sour cream and they were out of sour cream.

How can a restaurant that is 15 steps away from a HUGE grocery store be out of anything?????????????????????????