KFC is the one that fills that spot for me. They use fresh ingredients but their volume on everything other than the buckets of chicken and salads is low enough that that fresh produce might start to go bad. I used to love their big crunches and chicken bowls, but it’s offputting when the potato in the chicken bowl tastes like it should have been used a few days ago or thrown out.
It sucks because when they did use fresh fresh ingredients, they were stillpretty good, but when they used not so fresh fresh ingredients, they were bottom of the list. And most places can have bad moments, but I found KFC to be more consistently iffy rather than it being a blue moon thing.
But busy locations are probably more consistently good because I’m guessing it’s due to managers/franchise owners trying to keep costs down at struggling locations.
KFC is the one that fills that spot for me. They use fresh ingredients but their volume on everything other than the buckets of chicken and salads is low enough that that fresh produce might start to go bad. I used to love their big crunches and chicken bowls, but it’s offputting when the potato in the chicken bowl tastes like it should have been used a few days ago or thrown out.
It sucks because when they did use fresh fresh ingredients, they were stillpretty good, but when they used not so fresh fresh ingredients, they were bottom of the list. And most places can have bad moments, but I found KFC to be more consistently iffy rather than it being a blue moon thing.
But busy locations are probably more consistently good because I’m guessing it’s due to managers/franchise owners trying to keep costs down at struggling locations.