So…I had some issues Sunday night at the local Taco Bell/KFC franchise.
It all started off innocently enough. Paul and I had just returned from a trip to Indiana. After unpacking and four hours of driving, fast food seemed like a good option. So, off I went to the local Taco Bell/KFC while Paul finished cleaning up our tailgating items.
I arrived to see a drive thru line snaking out past the drive thru speaker. As I spent 21 minutes last week waiting in the drive thru line for the always delicious Taco Bell at this particular location, I decided I should probably go inside to procure our KFC for Sunday night, because clearly this is a franchise that has some issues with their drive thru.
I thought this was a good decision at the time.
In retrospect, perhaps the fact that I waited 21 minutes to get drive thru Taco Bell last week should have suggested to me that the entire place has some issues.
Order placed, and with no comment on any particular timing issues for food from the cashier, I took a seat to wait an expected few minutes to obtain my finger-lickin’ good supper.
Let’s turn to Twitter to see how things worked out for me…
Ordered my food at Taco Bell/KFC AT 7:19. It is now 7:47. 28 minutes and counting for fast food. #notsofastfood @tacobell @kfc
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Note: this is when I should have cut my losses and headed for McDonald’s. I didn’t. That’s seven years of higher education at work right there!
Clearly, I really like chicken and cheap Mexican food, because I have passed the 30 minute mark and continue to wait. @tacobell @kfc
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Bored, I procured some Taco Bell packets and tweeted those out.
When am I getting my food? #never. @tacobell @kfc pic.twitter.com/k80owbwd0A
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
#teamfire everyone working here. @tacobell @kfc pic.twitter.com/6X7etVCBUh
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Watch this…I am going to go to McDonald’s across the street and finish my food before it is ready here. @kfc @tacobell #41minutes pic.twitter.com/SIId79hWgw
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Cheers! Because clearly, alcohol is the solution to this problem. #alcohol #cheers @kfc @tacobell pic.twitter.com/xT7n1Dgh9Y
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Then things got bad for one of my fellow adventurers in this quest to obtain Taco Bell and KFC.
The guy next to me just got told they no longer sell the Doublicious – he had been here at least 20 minutes. @kfc @tacobell
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Note: According to the KFC website, the Doublicious is most definitely still available as a menu item. Methinks the kitchen staff just didn’t want to make one for this fellow. Meanwhile, in sauce packets…
Perhaps. I might still be waiting. @kfc @tacobell #48minutes pic.twitter.com/mBs0N0MB8x
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
And then, hope!
They just called out an order for Sarah. It wasn’t me. 😥
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Nevermind.
Life is short. I am spending the rest of mine at this Taco Bell. #SendHelp #OrFood #NotPicky @kfc @tacobell pic.twitter.com/OZzRjakaQN
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
And then I ran out of sauce packets for which I could think of amusing things to say.
53 minutes…will we hit an hour? The world waits…and so do I. So do I. @kfc @tacobell
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Unsurprisingly, hour one came and went.
One hour!! They did just refund my money without me asking. So there is that. @kfc @tacobell
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Do you want mac & cheese? Too bad, so sad.
They are out of Mac & Cheese. They just told a woman who has been here longer than me. She just laughed. Because…what else to do?
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
But wait, the food woes are not over!
Out of chicken legs! But they are up to the order two ahead of mine. Soon… @kfc @tacobell #65minutes
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Considering this Taco Bell once told us they were out of ground beef, this should not have been surprising. And yet, it was.
The waiting continues…
This location needs one of those amusement park signs: Your food is 67 minutes from this point in line. @kfc @tacobell
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
I am running out of things to Tweet about. Either that, or I am getting light-headed from a lack of food. #hungry @kfc @tacobell
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Patience is a virtue! That said, I was pretty sure this guy took his life into his own hands when he made this move.
One of the employees just came out for a soda. I don’t think that should probably be his priority right now. pic.twitter.com/OT2UgpjuGm
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
And then…80 minutes later…SUCCESS!
FOOD!!! 80 minutes! #sohungry #needtoordermorefood @kfc @tacobell pic.twitter.com/EQNIcuzRSZ
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Well, sort of.
Me at home: I didn’t check the order, because I wasn’t going to wait for them to correct it.
*Checks food* That’s not crispy! pic.twitter.com/tjQtJtQ0Gz
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
A Twitter postscript:
In related news, I *probably* won’t be recommending that particular Taco Bell/KFC location in the future. @KFCBarstool @tacobell
— Sarah & Choppy (@travelswithchop) October 31, 2016
Travels with Choppy 
I think they have to re-think their definition of “fast food”…
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At least the “fast” part. Then again, probably the “food” part, too!
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Wow!! thats horrible, don’t you love twitter though? I love seeing your twitter feed on this story!
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Yeah it was really entertaining reading your tweets lol! Did it taste good at least? And did you give Choppy and Scooner some?
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It was OK – I prefer the crispy chicken and got the non-crispy. At that point, though, I would have been happy with anything!
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Did you get any more sauces?
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No – and I actually put all those back. I hope no one cared!
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Thanks! At some point, it was so bad it was amusing. And I have a good story out of it!
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Your patience is commendable, here they’d have rioted after 15 mins 🙂
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I think we all sort of gave them the benefit of the doubt – like, how could it possibly take so long? And then you get to the point where you’ve waited so long, you can’t imagine it will take longer. Then it does, and you can’t go, because you’ve already waited so long you can’t justify giving up now!
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What a nightmare!
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Yikes, that’s awful. Last Friday I went to my local KFC, walked up to the counter, asked for a 21 piece bucket and within 2 minutes my order was filled and I was walking to my car. I put the bucket into the front passenger seat and secured it with the seatbelt.
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I’m so glad you did that, I did that with a pumpkin one time, funniest photo!
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You’ve got to protect loved ones.
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A buckled bucket!
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Yep and all 21 pieces hot home safely
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The most important part!
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Ha!
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I needed to visit your KFC, obviously. Actually, it might have taken less time to fly over, get KFC and come back.
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If you give me enough notice I could buy some and meet you in Hawaii 😳
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I like this situation – everyone wins.
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I love Hawaii!
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So do I!
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I was following this on twitter this morning. It was fascinating! What a bunch of tools!
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Right?! I definitely have something to be bitter about here.
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Oh my goodness, did you ever. Thankfully for your blog you kept hanging in there, so we could all see how bitter we needed to be.
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You are patient for I would have left with my money in hand long before that. Plus there would have been an email to the franchise. 🙂 Jim
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Oh, I think they will be getting a strongly worded letter. I actually think the franchise is the problem here, based on some of the problems that night and on another visit. I think the franchisee is trying to cut corners to save money, and that’s the major reason the store has troubles.
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What an ordeal!
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But at least I got a good blog post out of it!
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So hilarious. Fast food sure ain’t what it used to be….
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And “fast” is not a word to describe this particular trip to get food!
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That was sooo funny, but sad, as well. I’m just about speechless. How embarrassing that their address is so available. I don’t eat “fast food” it is way too disgusting. Seriously. Have some nonGMO tostitoes with redpepper, olives & cheese & sourcreme handy. Salsa, too. Much better!
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And sounds delicious too.
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Oh, definitely better! But I do enjoy it sometimes – especially after a day of travel when I was exhausted and had no desire to do anything resembling cooking!
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I wonder if anyone from KFC/ Taco Bell saw your tweets. You have more patience than I would or could ever have!!
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If they did, they have yet to respond.
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Wow! Ten minutes and I would have gone behind the counter looking for mine to cook it myself hahahaa! you have incredible patience honey omg! XO!
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I should have done that – I am sure I could have figured out what I was doing in less than 80 minutes!
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oh im sure you could have!! im a wicked bossy witch with a B, I know its hard to believe but I really am! and I have no patiences at all hahaa! XO!
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You are way more patient than I would have been, and I pride myself on being patient. LOL Love the tweets though. At least you found a way to entertain yourself and others in the process. I’m surprised that KFC and Taco Bell are together. That just doesn’t seem right to me.
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We have a lot of them in smaller towns in the Midwest – I don’t think they are quite large enough to support one or the other, but a combination works.
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No way I’d have waited that long for ANY restaurant to bring my food. I’ve always believed mid-westerners to be the nicest of people. You just proved it! ❤
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I don’t think I would’ve waited that long! I wouldn’t have been able to keep my mouth shut. The KFC’s around here have really slipped in terms of quality. The chicken looks more like pigeon. It’s horrendous and tiny.
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The wings we ended up getting (because they were out of legs) were itty-bitty! Definitely not what I expect out of chicken wings.
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They changed everything trying to get “healthy”. KFC wasn’t supposed to be health food!!!
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I feel this way about all fast food – I am well aware it is unhealthy – that’s why it’s a treat! I can eat healthy at home.
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Holy Crap !!!!
You have patience, that is for sure. I would not have waited that long, no way, I would have left – clearly that place had a problem, where was management!!!
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At some point, I just wanted to see how long it would be, no matter how long it was – and if nothing else, I got a good blog post out of it!
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I could have caught, gutted and cooked a chicken in that time. Was it hot? Terrible service, and I thought we had it bad in McDs once when they had their new self order boards installed.
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I could have almost raised the chicken to adulthood at that speed!
And the food was actually warm. I sort of feel like they were making each meal, one at a time, rather than having food already made up.
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I read somewhere that they can’t batch cook anymore as they had to throw so much away. Our McDs with the self ordering stations is actualy pretty efficient now, you actually get your piping hot order delivered to your seating are. Shouldn’t have it I know, but when we got the ‘bad news’ thought Sod It.
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Hey, it’s not like you’re there everyday. And I think you had news that is worth a little indulgence (though there is probably a better word to use there).
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Several actually…….. “stuffing my face and enjoying every mouthful” just about covers it!
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oh that is hysterical!!! love this!!
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Thank you!
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80 minutes?? Sheesh, for the love of all that’s holy, what the heck takes 80 minutes at a fast food place? Aren’t their chickens raised quicker than that?! 😉
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Right?! Apparently it takes 10 minutes to cook chicken at KFC. Apparently they were cooking A LOT of chicken.
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That’s fast food for you! Groan…
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If fast is relative…it was still probably slow.
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Did they answer your tweets? If not, even more shame on them!
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Not a peep!
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Shocking!
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Right?!
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Great day in the morning! Eighty minutes!? Were they plucking chickens in the parking lot? LOL! I had a similar experience at a local Burger King several years ago. I did not wait 80 minutes, though. Maybe closer to half that. BK’s in my neck of the woods routinely run out of normal things… like hamburger buns and ketchup. What hamburger fast food chain runs out of buns? Good grief…
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This particular Taco Bell once ran out of beef – clearly, it has issues!
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Wow, you are patient! Your experience could be considered surreal enough to be part of the Twilight Zone. Along those lines, perhaps your reality and that of Bluto Blutarski merged just long enough while you were waiting 80 minutes for the wrong order, for that classic line to resonate in your universe. “Seven years of college (& 80 minutes @ KFC) down the drain.”
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Ha! Classic line.
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Thank God, Choppy & Schooner don’t tweet. Choppy would be like “I could learn cooking in those 80 mins taken by Taco Bell for a single order, which I’d call Taco Hell henceforth”..
Thereon, “80 mins to complete our order? Looks like Schooner could make a bright career here. So bright that I’d have to wear anti-glares all the time”.
To which Schooner might backfire “Choppy thinks she created the Heaven and the Earth”. 😛
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Ha! I like this descent into having everything backfire on Choppy. Poor Choppy, always bearing the brunt of troubles.
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Hahah.. 😀
@Choppy -> You’d never have to hire a lawyer to argue your cases
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Oh my gosh this was so funny!!🤣 Although I’m sure it wasn’t when you were tweet deep in it😑 but man I wished I would have seen these tweets as you were firing them off. I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe😂😅 but I learned something here. Next time I’m find myself in a similar situation🍗 I’ll have to find a clever way of utilizing Twitter to deal with my frustration. These tweets were priceless. And that employee,🤐 what’s up with that? Clearly this outfit needs some serious customer service training. This post is the BEST!!! 💗🎀💕
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Oh my gosh – thank you so much! I really had to enjoy myself, otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten through the whole thing. It was so absurd it was funny!
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You’re better than me. When I’m hungry I lose my cookies. It woulda been a bad day for those clowns.😂 It’s great that you were able to remain calm and make good use of the time. The hot sauce packets were an awesome touch! 👌
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I laughed! My husband orders from there a lot and we use those spice packets to give each other messages, so I appreciated all of those!!! 😀
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I’m glad you enjoyed them! I always pick out my favorites to use when I eat – as in, I don’t eat the ones with messages I don’t enjoy.
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