KFC runs out of chicken

[nonsequitur]

vikingaero said:

I've done work for DHL.



It's a company. Nothing is owned. Warehouse leased, vehicles leased, everything they can lease they will. If they could get away with leasing paperclips they would.

Paperclips.com

[Puggit]

[Ultra Sound Guy]

Just mulling a few things over in my head to try and put the worlds problems to right!
Could KFC can use alternative sources of raw food?
Prison overcrowding?
The unemployable?
Soylent Green?

[arfursleep]

Puggit said:

Credit to them, that's a good advert.

I still won't buy their ste food mind.

[Vaud]

arfursleep said:

Credit to them, that's a good advert.

Their PR response will become a textbook example of how to do it.

[mgtony]

Ultra Sound Guy said:

Just mulling a few things over in my head to try and put the worlds problems to right!
Could KFC can use alternative sources of raw food?
Prison overcrowding?
The unemployable?
Soylent Green?

Sounds like a secret recipe for disaster.

[V8mate]

Vaud said:

arfursleep said:

Credit to them, that's a good advert.

Their PR response will become a textbook example of how to do it.

Saying sorry isn't a new phenomenon.

I recall applying for a job, back in 2001, with a firm who took a full page in the London Evening Standard apologising for being st, entirely on the back of the advert.

[crankedup]

arfursleep said:

Puggit said:

Credit to them, that's a good advert.

I still won't buy their ste food mind.

Unable to manage a piss up in a brewery comes to mind, wonder how many heads will roll.

[Saleen836]

Problem solved...

[Gary29]

Classic case of no such thing as bad publicity.

Regular customers won't stop going because of this, and it put KFC into the minds of people (like me) who haven't had KFC in ages and now really want some!

In a case as laughable as this, where a chicken shop runs out of chicken, then all they can do is hold their hands up and apologise, good response advert.

I wonder how much revenue they lost this week though?

[Troubleatmill]

Gary29 said:

Classic case of no such thing as bad publicity.

Regular customers won't stop going because of this, and it put KFC into the minds of people (like me) who haven't had KFC in ages and now really want some!

In a case as laughable as this, where a chicken shop runs out of chicken, then all they can do is hold their hands up and apologise, good response advert.

I wonder how much revenue they lost this week though?

Probably not as much as you think.
All the shops are franchises - So tens of thousands of small businesses are in the stty stuff much more than KFC HQ.

[swanny71]

I bet it's only a matter of time before some limp wristed, professionally offended tt complains about the rearranged acronym in that apology advert...

[Fort Jefferson]

[dandarez]

Don't Have Legs

[Ace-T]

swanny71 said:

I bet it's only a matter of time before some limp wristed, professionally offended tt complains about the rearranged acronym in that apology advert...

I think that apology ad is a work of advertising genius. Which is an extraordinarily rare thing. It appeals to the majority of their demographic, it is honest, it is funny, it is quite brave and bold.

I salute the corporate drone that authorised it. Though I do wonder if it was their last act before they went out the door with their stapler?

[ch108]

BilderBurger said:

ch108 said:

s p a c e m a n said:

Dick head logistics, it's what they do. Undercut everyone to get a contract for a few years, screw it up and suck as much money out of it as possible and then move on to the next gullible company when the contract is terminated.

Years ago they undercut a freight company I worked for, on a contract we had been doing for a while.

About a week later DHL started phoning our company offering us the same work back, but offering us less money than we had been getting for the contract directly. As the week went on we got more and more phonecalls from them in a panic wanting us to move full loads. They were even trying to demand we done the work for them because the customer would be let down! (The customer they had pinched from us in the first place, by grossly undercutting!)

Even if we wanted to, we wouldn't have been able to do the job at a profit, and shortly after our boss told them to stop phoning as we would not be doing the work. They even approached a sub contractor of ours, who also refused to help them, as they had too lost out on this work.

Nothing surprises me with their tactics and I wouldn't be surprised if something similar has happened on a far grander scale.

Logistics companies undercut one another. It's what they do. It's an over supplied market & customers know that. It makes them complicit in their own problems. I have no sympathy for DHL & none for KFC either as I sincerely doubt they invited QSL to quote Bidvests rates + 20%

You are correct, of course logistics companies undercut each other, I'm aware of that having worked in logistics for years. What got us was DHL blatantly offering the work back to the company they had taken the business off! It was quite obvious they had no plan on how they were going to do the work, and hadn't thought beyond slashing the costs.

Unfortunately for them they done the same to some of our competitors on other contracts, and soon found themselves struggling to get anyone to cover any loads for them in our area.

Edited by ch108 on Friday 23 February 19:24

[ambuletz]

went to kfc this evening. they had no shortage of chicken but other things.

wanted a zinger tower burger but they said they had no regular mayo for it, only the pepper one (which is still nicer).
they had no lettuce for it too
and most worse of all was they had no gravy

[yellowjack]

I drove past the one in Farnborough this afternoon and they had a "Limited Menu" sign up on the door. I went home and had a steak and onion pizza instead...

[Pesty]

BrabusMog said:

Pesty said:

Go on do tell even if it’s ground up baby chickens I’m still eating it

They scrape the fat vats and then process the st out of it.

Is that all? I’m from the north with a grandmother who grew up wi nowt.

I ate bread and dripping and bread and chicken fat as a treat.

[anonymous-user]

I worked for other logistics companies, same st. Was on on the a contract where the pallet rate had to be wrong as just couldn't make money off it. I know that DHL are trying to implement a same it system on each contract maybe that is where it fked up.