I love Popeye's chicken and consider it the best fried chicken in the Shoals but it's getting harder and harder to justify eating there. For one, these days, I want the kitchen cooks to be wearing those disposable gloves when they handle the food and here you're lucky to see one of the front girls wearing the gloves. Second it seems that they are trying to nickle and dime you to death. Now they have a sign up "no outside food or drink" can be brought into the restaurant. So much for if the kids want to bring their sippie cups or stop to get them a McDonalds Happy Meal if they don't want Chicken. Ask for any type of substitution and you get hit with a substitution charge that is depending on your race. I got charged for substituting a leg for a thigh but the guy that came in while I was eating there was not charged for several legs instead of thighs. It's getting to the point that it's almost not worth going as even with the taste of the Chicken what you have to endure well kind of takes the edge off the taste.
Maybe I'm just expecting too much and am too critical because it is the best chicken in town so I'll just put up with it I suppose.
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