Popeyes
Reviews and Complaints

I visit this Popeyes Chicken through the Drive-Thur and once I reached the window and payed the cashier she handed me my box of purchase with NO bag and when I asked her for a bag she rolled her eyes.

Recently had 3 piece bonafide from this location. The quality was very poor: cold, small chicken pieces that was not floured well ordered spicy but it wasn't, the biscuit was hard and cottony tasty. I was very disappointed and would have taken it back but was too far away. I grew up in the south and remember popeyes before they went national and everything was good, hot fried chicken and the biscuits were soft and fluffy. What happened, too much standardization to grow their business.

I went to Popeye's last week for dinner and was disgusted that the service crew cleaner very unhygienic. My colleges and I purchased meals from Popeye's chicken in Cathay, tables was unclean when I was about to sit, I noticed the chair and table had tomato stain and oily stain on it, I wave at a bum Chinese service cleaner with brown long hair sticking out form his jockey cap and he noticed, but he was chatting with another service girl and pretend not to see us,
After waving for sometimes, he approach us with a glum look on his face and mumble in Chinese, if you don’t like the service here your all can go elsewhere and when he clean our table by using those left over tissue papers. If Popeye’s chicken going to run a business as fast food then you should have decent people to handle the jobs, not Ah Beng! My colleges and I will never go there again and I will let all of my colleges know as well.

My Son and I went to popeye's (#4925) on february 28, 2011 for lunch and waited 20 minutes to get our food along with other customer's who had been waiting in the restaurant as well as the drive thru. We were waiting on bisquits, which they ran out of, so they did give us an extra piece of Chicken, but the chicken i had was very overcooked and I didn't enjoy the meal at all. I didn't feel like going back to the counter to complain because I had already waited 20 minutes. That is very unacceptable waitng for 20 minutes and not to mention running out of bisquits.

I went to order some chicken at the popeyes nearby my home and when I entered into the place it was like over 95 degrees temperature in there and the doors are closed no air ventilation and waiting on a line that taken me at least 15 minutes of waiting to order. When I finally reached the register I complaint to the cashier how it is very dangerous for the customers to be waiting on line this long and no air condition. I also explained to her that she shouldn't be working under these conditions. So I complaint to the manager in charge that day and he quickly opened up the doors open and explained that the air condition is broken and he made several calls to refrigeration but haven't get a response. How do owners still operates without any refrigeration working but still can cook food. That's when food poison comes in. I really felt uncomfortable eating their food now so I ask for a refund back on my card. Since I paid with credit card (Bank card) but he refuse to give me a refund. So here I am. Hot sweaty hungry feeling my asthma coming on and this man just gave me hard time. Was this professional ? I felt so disgusted walking out of this place.

I ordered a 5 pc. chicken dinner special for $7 and was surprised to find it included 2 wings. Fairly chintzy of them. I don't care for wings, so when I immediately asked for any other pieces instead of wings I was told "they can't do that". I'm thinking that Popeyes isn't too interested in happy customers, so, I'm not going to bother with them again.

I know the local Popeyes tries to make every penny they can by charging for everything, substitutions, extra sauce, cut for water, not allowing outside food or drinks so no kids sippie drinks or capri suns when dining with the family but to skimp on health protection is not very good. Every employee that touches the food should have prep gloves on and not use their bare hands.

I brought chicken from popeyes there 2 - days ago and the chicken was not cooked preoperly it was half done amd I got sick and thrw up I did not go to the hospital because I love pop eyes and eat there ball the time. All I want is my money back. I bought two ten piecies at broadway and myrle in brooklyn

We placed an order at the drive thru which should have been our first clue just to leave. It took us repeating our order 5 times before they claimed to have it correct, then when we get up to the window we have to repeat our order again. We get home and our order is not right at all. After attempting to contact the store several times, which by the way they did not answer once of the four attempts I made; I placed a call to your customer service hot line. The next day my husband informs me that we were double charged on our debit card that we used the previous night. My husband called the store and spoke to a manger who said she would call him back, she did not. I attempted to call the location another 16 times starting at 3:36 pm and ending at 4:17 pm. Frustrated and very very angry at this point my husband and I returned to the restaurant location to get the district mangers phone number. Called Brenda the first time at 4:22 pm, left a message for her to call me back asap. With no response from Brenda I again at 5:00 pm, she answered and proceeded to be unapologetic for our visit, very vague on when and how we would get a refund for the double charge, unwilling to give us a refund for our visit Monday night, and refused to give me her owner's phone number. I requested that she have her owner call me back, she refused to take my phone number claiming that she had it already, and we have not heard from Brenda or the franchise owner yet. Brenda was very unprofessional regarding our concerns and our complaints. She does not even have a greeting on her cell phone, it is simply a lot of static. And as far as the "customer hotline" for Popeye's, it has been a week with no contact back from their corporate offices. Seems to me that Popeye's does not care ata all for their customers just their customer's money.

I have tried, lord knows i've tried to be patient and understanding. But even though I always get lousy service and sometimes lousy food, I still go back to popeye's and "give them one more chance" to do it right. Once again I went to a popeye's chicken store in shreveport, la and got the same crappy service and lousy food. When will I learn?

Well, now i've had enough. I really wish there were a way to "purchase" this corporation so I could personally fire every single employee that works for any of the stores nationwide. Most of them need to be shuttered and sell the assets. This would be for the overall good of the brand identity. The recipe for their chicken is wonderful, and their sides are really great too. The big problem is with attitudes. The attitudes you get in the store (From apathy to downright disrespect) is largely a result/reflection of management. This applies from corporate management all the way down to the store level. I know that you get what you pay for so when you pay minimum wage salaries you get minimum wage work ethics or worse. There is an inherent problem with the work force available to this restaurant chain apparently. I see employees more interested in talking on their cell phones or visiting non-stop with their "friends" that are ever-present at the side of the counter (Yes you've seen them, right?). So maybe, as others have opined on various complaint board websites, i've really walked into a crack house. I wonder what could be so all consuming that would require a "friend" to hang out with you each and every day while you are "at work". And since when is it appropriate to wear your bluetooth device while working. Where is management? Are they even on the premises? I've heard of a time a long time ago where a store actually had a manager that wasn't trying to run a pimp house at the same time but I think that was actually an urban legend and is not to be believed.

What would convince a franchisee to buy into this system is beyond me. I assume that maybe i'm missing out on the absolute best investment franchise in history because if you can open a store in this economy, offer this type of lousy service, trash a wonderful chicken recipe, and still make a profit, then sign me up. Just imagine the millions i'll rake in by simply hiring and managing a few people who actually care about doing their job and not scoring a meth or crack sale. I've managed many, many employees over the years and I know that while there are certainly occasional unexpected challenges to be faced, most situations can be handled by utilizing "active management" techniques. The management of today is actually just another employee behind the counter schlepping fries or doing other job functions that should be covered by an hourly employee. I am a firm believer, and it has been proven time after time that managers should manage, workers should work. There is a reason why baseball doesn't have player/managers any longer, football coaches don't suit up and play, military generals don't take up arms. You cannot manage or lead others if you are up to your ears in doing menial work. You cannot anticipate the problems before they arise, you cannot hear the improper interactions with you paying customer, you cannot see that an employee is having a difficult time and needs additional training or instruction.In order to lead you have to be able to step back and observe. Like a great conductor leads and directs the orchestra when he hears something he doesn't like, you must direct the action, you monitor problem areas and take action to correct issues and most certainly in today's hyper-competitive market, when problems arise, you engage in customer satisfaction (I. E. Damage control).

It is sad actually to see apathetic kids trying to impersonate a person who actually cares. They ask for the job and eagerly nod their heads, promising to be the best popeye's employee ever, saying anything to get the job knowing full well that they'll settle in to the same routine that their friends told them about before they even applied for this "job". But then again, the manager conducting the interview also knew full well what the end results would be. They came from this same environment. They too are simply "working the system".

Alas, if only I had the ability to purchase this corporation, I would be the absolute king of fried chicken. All of the ingredients are already there except the proper people to do the job.

I have been to popeyes on Thinderbird and 83rd ave several times to see illegal activity going on with management. They hire felons and they are selling pot around there i have even seen several employee and a manager smoking i have called several times to report but i see that manager is still there oneday the police is going to crack down on that place since the owner don't seem to care what kind of business are you guys running.. you need to get a new staff because the manager on night shift is a pot head and something is really going on at that location.. i will not be going there and i will make sure i tell as many people as i can... what is the world coming to go get chicken and you can also get pot wow...

We visited Popeye's in the Providence Place Mall--Providence, RI on Th. 12/17/09 at 4:45. The girl at the counter was far removed from greeting customers in a friendly manner. She was in a slouched position, looking sideways--no greeting whatsoever. After being greeted in this manner, I said, "Are You Here?" She barely responded to me--took our order in rote fashion--didn't set it up for takeout as requested-- in addition the second side was missing. In general, the experience was miserable. With all of the people out of work these days, it would be good to have better representation of Popeye's and the services available to your customers. We are not frequent fast food buyers, but customer service elsewhere is far superior.

I visited popeyes chicken at 350 hwy @ raytown road on today and I sat at the menu in the drive through after being acknowledged and told she'd be with me in a moment. Ten minutes later i'm still waiting for someone to take my order. The drive through is horrible at this location as once you've entered and reached the speaker to place your order you cannot get out of the line until you've driven completely around the building past the window to pay. I drove on through with the intent of just leaving without placing an order as at this point I no longer wanted to patronize the restaurant. I drove around to find another customer at the window with what appeared to be a complaint as well. I sat behind that vehicle for exactly 23 minutes before the car pulled off but it didn't leave the establishment it just pulled out far enough that I could get out. I stopped at the window to voice my complaint with the fact that I sat in that line for a total of 33 min not to have ever been afforded the opportunity to even place an order nor could I leave. I believe that any customer at that window should be asked to pull up or come inside if they are unable to resolve a dispute in a reasonable timeframe. 33 min in a fast food drive through window is utterly ridiculous and I plan not to go back again, especially since my last visit about a week ago was not good either. I ordered a wing combo and the menu stated it's price as $5.99 but I was charged nearly $8 as the gentlemen working the window disagreed with me telling him the price of that meal. He finally spoke with a manager who clarified that indeed the price on the menu was correct and instead of refunding me the price difference they offered me a larger drink. I just want someone to look into how this store is being operated as popeyes is losing business at this location due to the mis-management of the restaurant.

after working a 6 day week and not getting home untill 6:30 on saturday from work i decided to order popeyes chicken for dinner, for my family. I ordered the food and after an hour called to see where it was. They said the delivery guy left 15 minutes ago, i only live 5 minutes away. so after another 20 minutes the food arrived... when i checked the food it was cold as ice, and they forgot to give me my shrimp that i ordered... When i called them the girl said that she packed the shrimp herself and to check again... that pissed me off even more because i already checked and a box of shrimp could not just disapper, any ways i told her my food was cold and she said that the delivery guys do not speak english and they had alot of complaints, she said the shrimp was on the way, another hour passed no shrimp, i phoned she said that there was a miss comunication and she thought i did not want it and they were gonna give me a free one next time i ordered ... now how is it free when i paid for it and still never got it.. well i wanted to speak to the manager, she said he would be in tomorrow i said okay missed him on sunday because he was attending a popeyes chicken meeting... i guess they really thought i was stupid bottom line there giving me 8 peices of chicken and free shrimp... i never want to order from them again... and by the way how is it free shrimp when i paid for it and still did not get it ..., ...

Isent my daughter to get me a three piece, dark meat meal with a red beans and rice side, I also asked her to make sure they were all thighs. She did as I asked but what she brought back was not three thighs, wht she brought back instead was three pieces of thighs that had been cut in half and sold as full pieces of chicken, THATS CALLED STEALING, I want my money back and please believe that the next complaint letter I write will be to the BBB. If you guys can't afford to be in business without stealing from your customer, you should close up shop. Stealing from your customer is never the answer, perhaps you guys should try installing some good business practices into your corporation and training your staff on how to make ends meet. Stealing from your customers will only result in loss of business and possibly a class action suit. I am a restaurant owner in Southfield Mi., and more than that, I am a decent human being with the common sense to know that the people who pay my bills, (the customers), are not stupid, they know what food is supposed to look like, and I also know that anybody dissatisfied with my product can and will spread the word quickly.Popeyes have been around for a long time, maybe you think you can do anything you want to your customers and they will continue to patronize you. Well I am one of those people who want exactly what I paid for and I am not just a stupid, blind consumer who will except anything. I WANT MY MONEY BACK. Please know that I will never shop at another Popeyes again, I will complain until I get satisfaction, I will let everyone I know about what the Popeyes Corporation is allowing to happen, and I will inform the Better Business Bureau of your activities. If you would like to respond to this letter, my name is Renitta Wicker and my email is [protected]@yahoo.com.