My family owns a kfc - we often would throw an extra chicken tender and like a few extra whole wings in buckets we sold, particularly close to closing. People LOVED when we did it.
Thats so true. I have a vivid memory of walking to a dunkin donuts with my cousins when we were maybe 10. My cousins all got a donut, but I didnt have any money to buy anything. When the worker asked what I wanted, I declined and told her I didnt have any cash. She smiled and gave me a donut anyway.
It was a 90 cent donut but a core memory for me that I still remember and occasionally think about nearly 30 years later. Wild how such a small gesture can have such an impact on someone.
This is how I learn both that the "Lagniapple" in Monster Hunter is based on something real, and why it's called that. It's an item you can use to get slightly more rewards from a side mission thing, which makes sense in context.
I love when a game sneaks in a real-world reference that makes the whole thing click afterward. Finding out the name actually has meaning makes that little bonus reward feel even cooler!
There is an unimportant little lesson on how the french pronounce some letters and how the rest of the world finally understood how to pronounce them that I wish I still could point people to, because it's so interesting.
I first heard about it when we had to learn how to form our mouths to say the letter "K" in french. For years the best Americans could say was close to "Koo", but the reality was "Key" while making an "OOH" mouth. I'm sure I'm butchering it but it was fascinating to me how mouths and words are formed.
Glad to help, poopshanks
Not really a spoiler since many languages have influences on English, especially American English. Though many share a lot of things depending on geography among many other things.
True, and same goes for english, even more so I feel like. For this specific word, I'd say it's spelled pretty much how you say it in Québec french, minus the silent ''g''.
That's so true! It's fascinating how local pronunciations can really bring a sense of community and culture. Heroes come in all forms, even in the way we talk!
There's a Popeyes within 5 min drive and I got the further one instead because they throw in an extra drumstick once in a while especially late at night. The one nearby has so many issues
It kinda is at a that store. I'm generally very nice to the ppl working there and help clear whatever they have sitting around, ie spicy or mild? Whatevers easier for you guys. Dealers choice
My Popeyes used to fill that chicken box right up with tenders and fries and it would fill me up.
Now the Popeyes has new owners and they give little pieces and call it a full tender. The box is like 1/3rd the weight of what I use to get late at night.
They also fired all the old staff. They all had to be interviewed about missing money and was trying to set a “baseline for trust” they fired anybody who admitted to sometimes eating on the job.
That's what the one near me does. One time I swear two thighs used to be one piece if combined. The owner works the cash register so go figure what kind of franchise owner they are. My friends in the area had issues too so we all avoid it
I must have been a truly virtuous soul in a past life because I ordered a 4-piece tender meal and got 6 tenders!
Granted, 2 of them were literally one-third the size of the other 4, so it was probably just a "toss them in, it's not like we can sell them that small anyway", but I will take my W's where I can get them
I had a similar situation with Wendy's. There was one I could walk to in 6 minutes, but I'd always drive 10 minutes to the next closest one because the difference in quality is astounding. No surprise that the one super close to me closed down for good earlier this year.
Worked at a KFC/Taco Bell waaaaay back in the day. Would do that too. It was gonna get tossed anyway, so why not? Sometimes we would give entire extra buckets if it was mere minutes away from closing, because we didn't wanna bother with trying to throw it away. We'd also get extra generous with the ingredients in the Taco Bell side, and even give extra items like Taco Bell versions of the KFC items (Famous Bowl but as a burrito was a cool secret menu item we would do, but back then it was known as a Mash Bowl. So we named the secret item a Mashitto, for example) because it saved us a LOT of time on cleanup
Made customers happy, saved us cleanup time, and helped encourage repeat customers. Just a win all around
When i was in college my friend worked in the cafe and wed regularly go see him at closing, buy a drink and hed throw in a bunch of the food that had to get thrown out. We often didnt even have college that day but went for the food and paid him back in a after shift smoke.
He did it with all customers around 30 minutes to an hour before he closed.
I spent a year working at McDonald’s. Salt dispenser for the fries was this plastic cone that kinda looked like a bird seed feeder. You’d turn it upside down and it would drop salt but quickly clog, putting the “perfect” amount of salt on every time.
Well… I slightly spun it every time I made the fries, making it dispense roughly 25% more salt.
Idk how many people would say “this McDonald’s fries are the best. You’re not afraid to salt them!”
One day my manager saw me and told me to stop. Was very adamant that if someone saw that, we’d both get fired.
Few people made some comments about them not seeming as good anymore. He kept me on the register after that. He knew I wanted to give it that extra spin. Salt just tastes better when it hits that fresh fry.
Why isn’t it normally done when closing? It doesn’t even accrue inventory shortages over months or years because most of that food would be discarded anyways.
I have a very fond memory of being over at my friends house with them and their step-brother and getting their step-dad to take us to KFC right before close one night.
When we got there we were just going to get a bucket and some biscuits but since they literally locked the door after us the employees just rang us up for the one bucket and gave us anything else we wanted.
We walked away with like 3 buckets and a large side of every option. I ended up staying over the whole weekend just to help eat all the KFC.
Hell yeah. The left over chicken is hand shredded by staff after close and used for things like pot pies, soup, etc. If there are like 30-40 pieces left towards close and someone gets a bucket, we would throw all kinds of extra strips, wings, some pop corn chicken.
That’s the kind of little thing people remember way longer than you’d expect. Nothing beats opening the bucket and realizing you got the family-size jackpot.
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u/Fragrant-Fix9642 23h ago
My family owns a kfc - we often would throw an extra chicken tender and like a few extra whole wings in buckets we sold, particularly close to closing. People LOVED when we did it.