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Popeyes sold to Burger King parent for $1.8 billion
The Atlanta Business Journal ^ | February 21, 2017 | Jacques Couret

Posted on 02/22/2017 12:52:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Red Badger

LOL!

If you frequent any of these places, you can see the good managers; they’re often behind the counter training new people, or just coming out to observe; or even going around cleaning tables and tidying up. A nice place usually has an energetic manager. The problem is, they don’t stay long - I guess they move up.


21 posted on 02/22/2017 1:21:15 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The last I looked, Church’s was Saudi owned. I won’t go there.


22 posted on 02/22/2017 1:21:16 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Jamestown1630

Could be location and worker pool. Not to mention management. Around here, most of the ones are more central township I.ie., inner city. If they’re any out in the burbs, I haven’t seen, or been to one.

CF’A on the other hand, seems to me more professionally run, regardless of location. I’m sure corporate has a rigid vetting process for prospective franchisees.


23 posted on 02/22/2017 1:29:20 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I believe Popeyes is predominantly a black enterprise. I recall Burger King being run by predominantly black managers executive / store owners.

I recall late 80’s early 90’s Jesse Jackson pushing Burger King to go black.


24 posted on 02/22/2017 1:30:17 PM PST by Fhios
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will they get paid on Tuesday? Popeye and Wimpy are back together again.


25 posted on 02/22/2017 1:31:06 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I have never been there, but I assumed that the place sold watermelon slices because of the commercials.

I must be a racist. Oh, wait...I’m white and voted for Trump so, of course I am by default, a racist.

All this PC crap needs to go the way of disco music.


26 posted on 02/22/2017 1:36:33 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Most of the Popeyes chain in Buffalo NY are run by. . . (ahem) “immigrants.”


27 posted on 02/22/2017 1:37:41 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of CS paid is inversely proportionate to Mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

We’re in the suburbs of DC, and in recent years the folks who work in Popeye’s seem to all come from the Caribbean or Africa.

At any rate, my location is very well-run.


28 posted on 02/22/2017 1:41:10 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

The food is good but the service, at least by me is horrific


29 posted on 02/22/2017 1:41:15 PM PST by cyclotic (Republicans Are without excuse. Flood the Resolute Desk with sane legislation.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yeah they dont mind making bank on exploiting black stereotypes. I wonder how many of them cannot see the racism in the commercials. She may as well be shucking and jiving and doing a dance.


30 posted on 02/22/2017 1:51:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jamestown1630
first time I had Popeyes, along the Indiana turnpike, it was good...

the 2nd time in Vegas, just awful....

won't chance it again....

you know what's good....Costco chicken....for $4.99 you can't beat it for a whole roasted chicken...

31 posted on 02/22/2017 1:52:38 PM PST by cherry
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
How do they compare to Chick Fil A?

Plain compared to Popeyes. Popeyes is real spicy chicken. I go there often, like it with the red beans and other sides. I stopped going to KFC a decade ago when their quality went way down. Chick Fil A is okay, but ordinary compared to the spicy stuff I like at Popeyes.

32 posted on 02/22/2017 2:01:45 PM PST by roadcat
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To: roadcat

You can order non spicy chicken as well. I’m from New Orleans and have been eating Popeyes for years.


33 posted on 02/22/2017 2:08:58 PM PST by murron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One of my boys in finance told me it was going to be a “tender offer.”

Nyuk, nyuk.


34 posted on 02/22/2017 2:11:47 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Secret Agent Man
I wonder how many of them cannot see the racism in the commercials.

Well that's the huge difference. If their spokesperson was white, it would be beaucoup racist. But since black people, by default, can't be racist...

35 posted on 02/22/2017 2:32:22 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I didn’t see those ads as racist; I just saw it as a play on Southern Black hospitality, home cooking, etc.


36 posted on 02/22/2017 2:37:25 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good and bad experiences at Popeyes. A visit to the one in Panama City, Florida was horrible. Idiots working the counter caused a simple order to take over 30 minutes to be filled.


37 posted on 02/22/2017 2:40:37 PM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: cherry

Someone else recommended Costco’s chickens to me; we get the same thing at the grocery, but not for that price. It’s a great thing to make a “real” meal on a weeknight, without a lot of work.


38 posted on 02/22/2017 2:41:05 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: cyclotic

I guess we’ve just got a good one. We’ve been going there for nine years, and haven’t had a complaint.

The only con is that they don’t deliver - we’re in a ‘dead zone’ for delivery food, and it would be nice. But I guess that can’t be worked into the model for a place like Popeye’s.


39 posted on 02/22/2017 2:46:14 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I must have eaten at different Popeyes’ dozens of times, and I adore the chix, slaw, and roll special.


40 posted on 02/22/2017 2:56:49 PM PST by Trentamj
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