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Popeyes

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2,534 complaints

Address

400 Perimeter Center Terraces, Suite 1000, Atlanta GA 30346

Popeyes customers report widespread issues with incorrect or missing order items, excessive wait times (often 20-45 minutes), and poor food quality including old, cold, or undercooked chicken. Staff behavior is frequently cited as rude and unprofessional, with reports of arguing employees and dismissive managers. Many locations are chronically out of basic items like fries, coleslaw, and even chicken.

Common Issues

35% (128)
wrong ordermissingdidn't receive
30% (110)
wait30 minutesslow
25% (92)
oldcoldhard
20% (73)
rudeunprofessionalarguing
15% (55)
out ofno chickenno fries

Complaints

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G Harris

May 2, 2023
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Went in there 2 different times and the first time I let it slide there getting orders wronge..

second time I received chicken that look like it’s been in oven for weeks it was mad thin n burnt .. usually my chicken is crispy….. I asked for strawberry biscuits twice and had to leave wit original.. I asked for my recipe that I never received I couldn’t even get that….

I had to leave my food due to lack of respect

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Keisha Rowland

May 2, 2023
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I visited the Popeyes which is fairly new on 10th & Market on May 2, 2023. I asked the cashier for 2 orders of the Ghost pepper wings and she told me it would be 9 minutes, I said ok that’s fine.

She asked the cook was he coming the chicken and he shook his head NO. She then comes back to the register and says we don’t have the ghost pepper wings would I like to order anything else, I told her NO and left the store.

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Keisha Rowland

May 2, 2023
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Good afternoon I visited the Popeyes at 10th Market, Philadelphia PA today around 11:45 this afternoon. I asked the cashier for 2 orders of the Ghost Pepper wings, she told me it would be 9 minutes I said ok that will be fine.

She proceeded to ask the cook was he cooking the ghost wings and his reply was NO. She then told me that they didn’t have any Ghost pepper wings and would I like to order something else. I told her NO and left out the store very agitated because you just said that it would be 9 minutes.

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Theresa Ensele

May 2, 2023
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I ordered 2 piece meal. I was given 2 extremely small wings and fries. 00 would get at least 1 decent piece of chicken with actual meat on it. Highly disappointed. Won't let me upload receipt

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Jimmarion Hodges

May 1, 2023
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Not getting hours at work v Getting 1 and 2 days at woek as a 17 year old

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Bonnie Coulbourne

May 1, 2023
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I usually stop at Popeyes in Seaford Delaware at least 3 times a week after I pick up my granddaughter from school as she loves to eat there. Every time we go there we always have to wait at least 10 minutes to get our food as they never have any cooked.

The straw that broke me from going there happened on Wednesday 4/26/23 when we went to the drive through placed our order, paid , and waited 20 min before anyone even talked to us. I questioned as to what was going on and why we were waiting I was told that they were busy inside and out.

I sat there and watched them wait on customers inside the whole time and so I asked for a refund as I was not wanting anymore for service. There were 4 others behind me waiting as well. I was given my money back with no apology and went to Chick Fil A…

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Jessie Munz

May 1, 2023
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We like Popeyes chicken at lot. I have ordered from them for family gatherings. But I am going have to go elsewhere. They are always out of chicken. They don’t even have their chicken sandwiches for lunch. Don’t me even get started on there customer service one time we ordered the sandwiches in the drive thru and we’re told again they didn’t have any.

We told them we would have to go somewhere else no apologies just the employees laughing at us telling them we were going somewhere else. How uncaring. Can’t you do something about this. Send in some of your better people to run the place and hire people who care.

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Steve Leaton

May 1, 2023
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I don’t go to Popeyes very often, but it seems that 50% of the times that I do, my wait through drive up is around 30 minutes. 8 min. , Then I am home with completely the wrong order. I saw 2 customers drive away.

Time for someone who cares, to fix this issue. ARTESIA NM

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Lyn Grimes

Apr 30, 2023
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Your restaurant in Perry GA charges higher prices at the window than the price posted on the board. I have brought this to the attention of the staff several times. The reply is always that the corporate office is aware of the prob lem.

Come on, your product is good but your unlisted prices are far too high.

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Kim

Apr 30, 2023
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Biscuits taste like old fashioned lard. Chicken breading has no flavor. Red beans and rice waterer and no flavor. Suggest Canes instead always have great flavor

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Jeffory Albertson

Apr 30, 2023
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I got a family meal today to go and I brought it home and all the chicken was so dry and seemed as if it was very old and had been made a long time ago. it was so dry it was not edible.

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Kristin

Apr 30, 2023
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I ordered the family feast and I had to pull forward and wait over 30 minutes and then they didn't put my large red beans and rice in there and of course they wouldn't give it to me when I came back because I didn't have a receipt because they didn't give me one the meal is already super expensive and then to not get your food at that and then be told that they can't help you because they didn't give you a receipt it'd be one thing if I lost the receipt but

they didn't give me one because the machine was down

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Ashlee smith

Apr 30, 2023
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I have no complaints. I just wanted to say I over heard a group employees say they were going to complain and complain because they didn’t like an old employee. This is wrong and I just wanted it to be noticed.

I have been in this Popeyes location and it had changed alot

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Angela Moore

Apr 30, 2023
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Experienced very poor service at location on Slauson & Crenshaw. I was ignored At drive through window and when I went inside to speak with management Enrique never came out to acknowledge me after multiple requests by cashier. Mind you, manger was in the front when I entered the store.

All customers should be treated with respect and dignity no matter the race.

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Brenda Days

Apr 30, 2023
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I stopped by Popeye's chicken on Saturday April 29,2023 at 4422 Sunset Rd Charlotte, Nc, NC, 28216 The person my order was extremely courteous and helpful with helping me make my selections. That is the last of a good experience on my visit. I ordered two meals.

1st I did not get a receipt for my purchase 2nd when I got home the fries were cold and the chicken appeared to be extremely sanity 3rd the shrimp were greasey 4th the Mac an cheese had no flavor 5th the biscuts were hard, cold and greasey Popeye's is generally my chicken of choice, however this vist has me thinking I may need to try one of your competitors. I have no pics as I tossed everything in the trash. I ordered a 3pc chicken combo with fries and a 8 pc shrimp wit Mac an cheese. I have a copy of my bank payment to upload I…

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Myra Freeman

Apr 30, 2023
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The manager taking orders was beyond very rude. 99. The nuggets were left out and I did not receive a receipt. I went back into the store to ask for both receipt and confirm nuggets weren't in the box and the manager would not listen to what I was asking.

She kept talking over me saying she didn't charge for nuggets that were already included in meal offer. She was loud rude and when i asked again for my receipt she snatched receipt from machine then threw receipt at me.

If this is the type of people pqopeyes hires I will no longer eat at popeyes in Baton Rouge La. She should be replaced. The guy behind the counter was at a loss for words throughout the managers actions. Ticket #624. APRIL 29, 2023. 8:46pm.

I'm sure nothing will be done but I felt this should be brought to someone's…

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Rashanda Williams

Apr 29, 2023
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Me and my mother pulled up to order along with another customer. We sat there for 7 minutes to be waited on, so we drive around to the drive thru window and asked a guy that was walking by were they open.

He responded and said yes the other drive thru girl is In the bathroom as to why there wasn’t anyone on the speaker box. So we ordered a five piece meal with a coupon and the order was wrong. They only gave us three pieces of chicken and a small amount of fries and the wrong side.

We rolled back around to the window, and informed the lady at the window that the order was wrong. She then said I’ll give you your money back, even though we haven’t asked for our money back, just to correct the order.

So I asked her could I get some more fries because it was less than half of a bag of…

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Kimberly McNair

Apr 29, 2023
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I checked my chicken sandwich and it had a hair on it so I’m sitting in the drive through so I tell them and they take it back and tell me to pull up. They brought the same sandwich out to me as if I wouldn’t know I had been put in the microwave..

this is the second time I got a bad chicken sandwich the last time I just got a refund and went on my way it’s the Magee Ms. Popeyes that I always have a problem with

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Gwen Alexandre

Apr 29, 2023
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Poor customer service waited a long time for my food many employees working but none cared to work and get the lines inside or outside moving and my food ended up being cold and old chicken

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Karen Collins

Apr 29, 2023
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ordered chicken nuggets with mash potatoes and side of slaw. omg, throwed meal in trash. love Popeyes and now can't eat at any of them. Need inspections to insure up to health codes

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Kathy L Payne

Apr 29, 2023
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My son went to your store, emoployee was rude, not only to him but everyone in the store. Then we got our food it was cold and didnt taste good. Shrimp tasted as if it had set all day. My son and husband went back to the store and was told that there was nothing they could do.

Rude employe wasnt bad enough she did this to a handicapped person. She should be fired.

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Kenneth Linker

Apr 29, 2023
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Your Oakley, CA Popeyes consistently makes mistakes. The later evening crew usually has their friends in the dining area and gives them free food and drink while they hang out. I have been letting it slide but I'm finally tired of the errors So once again here we go.

I wanted the Popcorn Shrimp but they said they were out of all Seafood So I switched my order to Chicken Strips with the side being Red Beans and Rice They said they were out of all sides except Mashed Potatoes and Gravy They asked me what kind of sauce and I said Ranch Got home (I SHOULD have checked while in the drive thru and made others wait)... NO SAUCE. NO SPOON.

It takes an INCREDIBLY long time at this place and I have been considering just going to the Antioch one going forward and this has been ongoing from the day…

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Laurie Herrera

Apr 29, 2023
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Popeye’s #2826 on Parker Road … I asked for all dark, and I received breast - this is the third time this has happened - staff clearly doesn’t know their chicken pieces.

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Lea

Apr 29, 2023
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11 for an order online at the Indiana, PA location. The money was taken from my bank but they did not make my order. I drove to popeyes to pick it up and they said they weren't going to make my order.

I have been repeatedly trying to get my money refunded to no avail. I will never return to any popeyes. What a terrible experience.

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Barbara Malfait

Apr 28, 2023
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Ordered Online line at 6:15 didnt get my order till 7:15 store 11653 18592 East 9 mile rd eastpinte mi 48021 5866101040

Terrible serviice tried to go to a different one there all the same

im not going there again shouldnt take an hour to order food

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James White

Apr 28, 2023
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I waited in line for my order then the lady put 8 orders infront of mine on the ticket holder waited 30 min more tickets was placed infront of my doordash pick up order

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Jesse Igarta

Apr 28, 2023
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Horrible food. Cold and rubbery! I got my food at 10:30 am thinking that it would be nice hot little did I know that would be far from the truth.

Second time this has happened. Wanted to give them another chance but another one might be out of the question. I’m from Oklahoma and it never tasted like this. Mr Igarta

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Eden Castro

Apr 28, 2023
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For the first time in my whole life, there is a fast food chain that requires you to to pay down to the last cent because they have no change. It’s either you have the exact amount or you pay via gcash or just find another resto. This happened at around 8pm at Eton Centris in Manila. And with the demand for GCash they don’t even have a WiFi to connect to. So you use your own mobile data. What kind of poor, inconvenient service is that? POPEYES.

The staff made no attempt to get change from somewhere else and just made a lame face saying that the one in charge of bringing the money was late. We are already in the postpandemic era. It just shows that your staff are ill prepared to deal with the rising number of customers and your managers don’t care about convenient service. Mas magaling pa…

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Karmin

Apr 27, 2023
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The chicken was black inside couldn’t eat

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Shannon McNamara

Apr 27, 2023
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I ordered a thigh, mashed potatoes with extra gravy and a cup of water. The girl rudely said we don’t have cups for water and asked me if I wanted bottled water. I told her no and she charged me for a soda. I told her I didn’t want a soda and she said she could not refund me for the soda because there is no manager available. So I took the cup and filled it with water from the fountain.

Horrible experience- very rude and didn’t pay attention to what I was saying when I was ordering- I got no extra gravy either, which I’d have been happy to pay for

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Luciane Lindvay

Apr 27, 2023
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I order a 14 pieces classic tender mild to go. And I received spicy. I just noticed when I gave to my kids at home. I would like a new order for free please.

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Kimberly Allen

Apr 27, 2023
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1323 E. Napier Ave Benton Harbor MI store # 3147 is the worst customer service ever, poor service, received order wrong shift manger rude very unprofessional She need to take a hospitality class. No my fault you gave me the wrong order and you don't communicate with your employees.

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Amber

Apr 27, 2023
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The Popeyes on 3660 Austin Peay Hwy Memphis TN opened at 10 o’clock and was already out of food by the time we arrived at 11. This is a consistent problem from this location.

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Scott whitaker

Apr 27, 2023
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I went to your Cleveland ga store last night and it was a horrible experience I know the young man at the counter was so upset he was getting cussed out by other customers who had placed orders for a 515 pick up and it was 545 and he was having to take the abuse from the customer because the cooks had just dropped the chicken for the order and the so called manager would not come up front to speak to the customer she just left this young man who's name tag said John on it to handle the issue he did an amazing job I currently own my own business in town and

would have fired that manager for not doing her job and leaving an employee to have to handle this while she just stayed on her phone texting is what it appeared to me I just asked if he could tell me what was ready and he did so I…

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Taylor Roberts

Apr 27, 2023
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Went to Popeyes, 7155 Ogden Ave, Berwyn IL, 60402. I called this location many times and had no answer. When I went there they said that they had no tenders, so I went to another location also in berwyn and they didn’t any tenders.

I went back to the original location stated above, and it was 9:28pm, at the window they said that they were closed. Online it says this location closes at 11pm, I looked in the window and they were just laughing and not doing anything, so why did they close early?

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Charlene A Mann

Apr 27, 2023
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I'm a 70 year old senior citizens, & I was placing my order. The black girl with mix red & black hair kept asking me if I wanted a 3 piece combo or dinner. She kept on confusion me. I didn't no the difference.

Well any how she finally said. OMG. I place it anyway. But when the gentleman handed my food she walked up to the window & gave me a starring match. All that was uncalled for. She acted like she wanted to fight me.

I don't need this nonsense coming from a kid. I still don't know the difference between a dinner or a combo. I was just leaving church up the street on Fair St, Statesboro Ga too. Many of my church members go there from church on Sundays.

And I a sure you they will know how I was treated. 00 to be aggregate. I could not even eat my food when I got home. I did not…

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Jose rodriguez

Apr 27, 2023
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the chicken was rotten and stank horrible and the staff treated me horrible, I'm going to talk to my lawyer, because I felt discriminated against

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Kimberly Hamm

Apr 27, 2023
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I went to the store on Auburn St in Rockford IL tonight and they were not taking cash transactions only card transactions!!! I do not understand that and it's been going on a few times only at night!!!! What is going on!!!!

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Willie Daniels sr

Apr 26, 2023
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I was inside of popeye's it wasn't but one person ahead of me he had already made his order and he was waiting on the chicken to come up his order included three chicken breast and there was one breast already up on the rack I wanted one breast the girl did not wanted to give me that one chicken breast saying it belongs to the man that was waiting for three chicken breast she made me wait a long time then

she finally gave it to me when I decide to call the manager she had went and hide in the corner so I won't she her and that was wrong for her to treat a customer like that

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MARQUITA R BROWN

Apr 26, 2023
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4725 Clinton Blvd Food was very cold!!! 4/26/23 ( wed) pm at 3:10 didn't get my cold food until 3:40pm Fries just cold/ chicken cold!!! Unsatisfied!!! Water tasted like lemonade!!! I mean I had a 4 piece combo with fries!! Dark meat. 85!!!

Serving cold gone run y'all business down real bad!!! Causing y'all to lose money!!!

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Deborah Nadine Torres

Apr 26, 2023
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I ordered a meal from Popeyes and the only thing decent about was beans and rice fries had been cooked so long they were thrown away the chicken was cooked too long wont go back

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Keiosha mcger

Apr 26, 2023
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Bad customer service skills, employees are rude. & just hands out random orders without checking the items! The food is terrible, they are gossiping more than working you can hear them at the window! They have attitudes in the drive thru lane!

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Joyce Riley

Apr 26, 2023
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My daughter and I just went to the Popeyes Chicken, located at 50 N. Western Ave. in Chicago, #2859 drive thru. The service was terrible. The first employee was fairly polite, but a second employee interrupted her and was not pleasant.

My daughter ordered a two piece dark mild with Mac and cheese which they were out of and a three piece dark mild with mash potatoes with gravy. The second person first said they didn’t have any dark meat then said oh yeah but only legs.

When we got home we only got two two pieces with the sides and drinks not a three piece that was charged.

Also I notice the time on the receipt is incorrect, an hour ahead of time. The employees need training on how to be pleasant.

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David Russell

Apr 26, 2023
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I went to Popeyes Tueday night the 25th and I had a coupon for a biscuit and two pieces chicken the manager on call that night wasn't going to honest so she called the somebody above her and they said yes you honor it so she got mad because I was right and denied my service is the Popeye on I-35 in belton texas and

the manager his name is said with Stephanie. She got mad because I told her that they have to honor the receipt

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Denotra Gunther

Apr 25, 2023
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I love the taste of Popsye's chicken and buy it multiple times per week. The store on New Circle Road in Lexington, KY, the only one in Lexington is busy but that did not affect the customer service the first few years open.

However, as of late, the customer service is horrible. I understand that when people place large orders, chicken may run out and the customer can choose to wait or leave. m. which took the young order taker asking me 4 times with long pauses in between what I wanted which was 4 peices of chicken, a manager came on and told me there were 2 cars ahead of me that had placed 16 piece orders and

the wait would be 15 min. When I replied that I have to wait anyway since I am in the drive through with cars both ahead and behind me, I was made to feel that my order was not…

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crystal

Apr 25, 2023
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We went to the new one in Concord NH and boy was it disappointing the staff had no idea what anyone was doing, our order with missing the strawberry dessert, the beans and rice, and the darn Mashed potatoes and gravy. I can understand one item being missing but three is a little ridiculous and because it's a new restaurant in town it was way too busy to even go back.

I did call and say something about it, but the young lady was very rude and snappy about the complaint. I love the ones down south, so I was very disappointed with this service.

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Linda

Apr 25, 2023
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I used a coupon from the Popeye's app. In the past I have always been able to swap some white meat for dark. I was told this time "no substitutions" I was also told I had to take fries and mashed potatoes as sides, (no choice). Is this correct?

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Minecia

Apr 25, 2023
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I went to Popeye on Kimberly Ave in New Haven. I really just wanted some wings and cole slaw. 00 plus. The chicken was old, hard and so dry you couldn't eat them. They were about the size of a small sparrow wing if that big.

The cole slaw was soupy, warm and with lots of little bubbles. Had I not been at work when I opened this mess I would have went back and demanded my money back. Popeye's used to be excellent, but this is the third time I have gotten a mess like this, twice in Hamden and now this one.

They will never, ever have to worry about me patronizing any of their store again and my peers at work saw the mess, so worry about them patronizing your places either.

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Dennis Hudson

Apr 25, 2023
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Arrived at Popeyes Drive thru At 506 S Federal Hwy. Dania Beach Fl. 99& lady tells Me we closed at 9pm! I asked aren't your hrs. Till 10pm? She Said Man fuck Dat I'm Ready to go home. I replied why did you tell me too pull 2the window??

If you are closed, she said I'm not cooking no more chicken tonight so leave, we closed.

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Lorraine A Yorgensen

Apr 25, 2023
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I placed an order online on the 20th I believe. To the Lake Bradford store in Tallahassee Florida. I had to wait in line for several minutes to get my food. And had to drive 20 minutes back home to eat my meal.

Along with this email or this message I am sending a picture of my complaint that I filed last week. And I tried to get a hold of the store from the 20th to the 22nd when I finally got a hold of somebody at customer service that took my report over the phone.

And received an email today with an apology. My tooth was broken cuz the chicken was so hard. And my friend that ate the chicken with me also got sick to his stomach. I paid for two sides a mac and cheese and a rice and beans side.

And they were the size of ice cream cups. They were almost $4 a piece I think they gave me the…

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