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Busted! Long Beach Restaurant Selling Popeyes Chicken As It's Own
We all have our fast food guilty pleasures: Taco Bell's Baja Blast, Burger King's fries, McDonald's apple pie. But that doesn't mean you want said apple pie pawned off as another restaurant's dish. That's why Yelpers are in a blaze over one restaurant using impostor fried chicken from Popeyes in one of its menu items. Grub Street reports that a Yelper took to the internet to leave Sweet Dixie Kitchen in Long Beach, California, a one-star review for using the chain's famous chicken in one of its dishes pretending like it’s their own.
User Tyler H. posted earlier this month after visiting the restaurant. "Before my friends and I got seated, we saw them quickly bring in two large boxes of Popeyes to the kitchen," the user wrote in the review.
In a beautiful but futile testament to positivity and hope, Tyler hoped that the chicken was just a nice snack for the restaurant's staff—but “alas it was not.” The good ol’ culinary adventurer ordered the chicken and waffles—which costs $12.95 dish, by the way—to purposely check out the chicken situation before inquiring about cooking methods to the server, who admitted that it was, indeed, prepared in a local Popeyes kitchen. Fortunately, Tyler's table was compensated for their meals, and although he himself found his waffles to be "hard as rocks," there were two out of the five total that "thought their food was ok or enjoyed it."
Sweet Dixie Kitchen opened in 2013 and prides itself on its message of “Stay local, be happy and always, eat well!” The restaurant doesn't consider their Popeyes alliance a dirty secret whatsoever. In a comment left on Tyler's review, owner Kimberly Sanchez said that the staff "PROUDLY SERVES" Popeyes spicy tenders, which they consider "the best fried chicken anywhere and from New Orleans." Oof.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/this-restaurant-got-caught-reselling-popeyes-fried-chicken-as-its-own/ar-AAtGHHq?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
User Tyler H. posted earlier this month after visiting the restaurant. "Before my friends and I got seated, we saw them quickly bring in two large boxes of Popeyes to the kitchen," the user wrote in the review.
In a beautiful but futile testament to positivity and hope, Tyler hoped that the chicken was just a nice snack for the restaurant's staff—but “alas it was not.” The good ol’ culinary adventurer ordered the chicken and waffles—which costs $12.95 dish, by the way—to purposely check out the chicken situation before inquiring about cooking methods to the server, who admitted that it was, indeed, prepared in a local Popeyes kitchen. Fortunately, Tyler's table was compensated for their meals, and although he himself found his waffles to be "hard as rocks," there were two out of the five total that "thought their food was ok or enjoyed it."
Sweet Dixie Kitchen opened in 2013 and prides itself on its message of “Stay local, be happy and always, eat well!” The restaurant doesn't consider their Popeyes alliance a dirty secret whatsoever. In a comment left on Tyler's review, owner Kimberly Sanchez said that the staff "PROUDLY SERVES" Popeyes spicy tenders, which they consider "the best fried chicken anywhere and from New Orleans." Oof.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/this-restaurant-got-caught-reselling-popeyes-fried-chicken-as-its-own/ar-AAtGHHq?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
Well... never trust a restaurant with the word "Dixie" in their name!
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