Kentucky Fried Stupid

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A while back I posted up a video expressing my opinion on the Quiznos “free sandwich” disaster. Trying not to let one bad apple spoil the bunch I chalked it up to one bad company making a stupid decision and kept the faith that other franchises did not make the same mistake.

Enter Kentucky Fried Chicken’s recent “free grilled chicken” promotion.

They wanted to push their new “grilled” chicken in a big way by challenging El Pollo Loco’s grilled chicken to a nation-wide taste test. Well El Pollo Loco stepped up, gave their chicken away to the masses that swarmed all of their locations. KFC on the other hand? Oh they apparently failed to realize the number of people out there that would kill for Free food (read: me) and canceled their promotion 2 days into it.

WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! Really? You didn’t anticipate the turnouts? argh.

Above is the “apology” by KFC’s president who took a page out of Dominoes Pizza’s president and sent the apology out via YouTube. Stay tuned for my own review when I go visit my local KFC to find out what the deal was.

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