“It’s the best chicken” —Sweet Dixie Kitchen Manager
The restaurant business can be tricky. Low profit margins, high turnover amongst staff and needy customers with bad opinions all can make or break a restaurant’s chances of success. Another thing that could potentially harm a restaurant’s reputation is getting caught buying Popeyes fried chicken and reselling it as your own culinary creation.
Sweet Dixie Kitchen, a comfort food restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was busted via Yelp for selling the fast food chain’s chicken as their own. They were just walking boxes of the chain’s chicken tenders through the front door—and charging a higher price!
Tyler H. wrote on the review site:
“Before my friends and I got seated we saw them quickly bring in two large boxes of Popeyes to the kitchen.”
But wait, it gets better!
“I kindly asked our waiter how they cooked their fried chicken. After checking he admitted that they do in fact use Popeyes,” the Yelp user continued. “The manager compensated us for the entire meal.”
Kim Sanchez, who owns the restaurant, saw the review as most restaurant owners do, and decided to respond, but not in the way you might think.
“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,” Sanchez wrote.
“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,” she continued.
“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,” she told Fox News.
She also told Fox News that she wasn’t trying to hide the fact that she was serving Popeyes fried chicken at an inflated cost.
“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.” Read More Here
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