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Posted on 9/10/19 at 9:23 am to CE Tiger
Maybe this has already been discussed but I am not reading through 56 pages:
Got confirmation this weekend from a guy who runs 5 Popeyes(not in Louisiana) that they have the chicken to keep up with the demand, it's 100% the bread vendor.
Expects things to be fixed between bread vendor and sandwiches will be sold again in October/November. Not sure why so long. Just what I was told.
Got confirmation this weekend from a guy who runs 5 Popeyes(not in Louisiana) that they have the chicken to keep up with the demand, it's 100% the bread vendor.
Expects things to be fixed between bread vendor and sandwiches will be sold again in October/November. Not sure why so long. Just what I was told.
Posted on 9/10/19 at 9:26 am to SmokedBrisket2018
Good info! This make more sense than saying they don't have the chicken!
Posted on 9/10/19 at 9:31 am to USMCTIGER1970
His exact words were "We were selling 10 times the amount of sandwiches that our test markets prepared us for."
Posted on 9/10/19 at 9:35 am to SmokedBrisket2018
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it's 100% the bread vendor
Gives them time to convert those original recipe patties into spicy
Posted on 9/26/19 at 3:17 pm to USEyourCURDS
I still need to try one. Suppose to be back nationally in October.
CAN’T WAIT!
CAN’T WAIT!
Posted on 10/3/19 at 11:12 pm to TheBigHurt
It's almost as though Popeye's hates money. How F'ing hard is it to source BUNS? FIGURE IT OUT
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:08 am to Costanza
I just called two locations in Houston and both had zero clue when they will be back. SMH
Posted on 10/4/19 at 11:13 am to Costanza
Popeyes just can't handle prosperity.
They knocked it out of the park, were the center of the national zeitgeist, and fricked it all up.
By the time the sandwich is back, no one will give a frick.
They knocked it out of the park, were the center of the national zeitgeist, and fricked it all up.
By the time the sandwich is back, no one will give a frick.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 12:40 pm to Fun Bunch
No one saw this coming, no one couldve predicted this. They "fricked it all up" by launching an unintentional viral social media campaign that caused an increase in sandwich sales by 100%. There is literally no way to prepare for that
One must understand supply chain management and forecasting
"mAkE mOrE bUnZ!"
3,100+ Popeyes now need buns (mind you this is a specialty brioche number, not some basic bun) at a quantity that exceeds 100% of what they forecasted for. These problems do not exist when you're selling 100 sandwiches a day. But when it jumps to 1,000 a day overnight, unexpectedly, you are now faced with a logistical nightmare.
Ok, produce a bunch of buns. Round the clock baking at some plant somewhere, im sure. Easy enough. Now they must get to a distributor (like a Sysco, for example), who may or may not even have freezer space to even store the amount of buns needed to fulfill orders. Do you know how many customers a place like Sysco sells to? Have you seen a supplier like that's warehouse? You are talking huge pallets full of cases of buns. You can't stack em. How do you do it? They are supplying numerous stores with buns, not just one.
Great, we figured out how the Syscos of the world stores all the product. Well now, how are they delivered? You already have a tractor trailer full of an order for a Popeyes - dry goods, frozen food, etc - a pretty full load by weight and quantity already. Now you need to find room for cases of buns. Each case only has so many buns. You're selling 1000 sandwiches a day... where do they go?
So now you figured out how to ship the buns to the Popeyes. Ok, now where do they store these buns? Have you seen a Popeyes like the one on Brockenbraugh and Vets?
These are tiny stores built in the 80s before growth. Probably has a tiny freezer, and limited dry good space. So you're selling 1,000 sandwiches a day, what do you do? Where does one store all this? You got tons of other shite already (look at a popeyes menu!)
Again, these issues don't exist if you're selling 100 a day. But for Popeyes, whose supply chain or restaurants were never set up to sell sandwiches much less 1k a day, it becomes a huge issue, much more than just "bake more buns"
One must understand supply chain management and forecasting
"mAkE mOrE bUnZ!"
3,100+ Popeyes now need buns (mind you this is a specialty brioche number, not some basic bun) at a quantity that exceeds 100% of what they forecasted for. These problems do not exist when you're selling 100 sandwiches a day. But when it jumps to 1,000 a day overnight, unexpectedly, you are now faced with a logistical nightmare.
Ok, produce a bunch of buns. Round the clock baking at some plant somewhere, im sure. Easy enough. Now they must get to a distributor (like a Sysco, for example), who may or may not even have freezer space to even store the amount of buns needed to fulfill orders. Do you know how many customers a place like Sysco sells to? Have you seen a supplier like that's warehouse? You are talking huge pallets full of cases of buns. You can't stack em. How do you do it? They are supplying numerous stores with buns, not just one.
Great, we figured out how the Syscos of the world stores all the product. Well now, how are they delivered? You already have a tractor trailer full of an order for a Popeyes - dry goods, frozen food, etc - a pretty full load by weight and quantity already. Now you need to find room for cases of buns. Each case only has so many buns. You're selling 1000 sandwiches a day... where do they go?
So now you figured out how to ship the buns to the Popeyes. Ok, now where do they store these buns? Have you seen a Popeyes like the one on Brockenbraugh and Vets?
These are tiny stores built in the 80s before growth. Probably has a tiny freezer, and limited dry good space. So you're selling 1,000 sandwiches a day, what do you do? Where does one store all this? You got tons of other shite already (look at a popeyes menu!) Again, these issues don't exist if you're selling 100 a day. But for Popeyes, whose supply chain or restaurants were never set up to sell sandwiches much less 1k a day, it becomes a huge issue, much more than just "bake more buns"
Posted on 10/4/19 at 2:26 pm to GynoSandberg
Damn, I saw this thread back on the front page and got excited
Posted on 10/4/19 at 4:54 pm to SmokedBrisket2018
Thanks for the update.
Posted on 10/4/19 at 7:01 pm to Fun Bunch
quote:
Popeyes just can't handle prosperity.
They knocked it out of the park, were the center of the national zeitgeist, and fricked it all up.
By the time the sandwich is back, no one will give a frick.
It'll be national news again.
It's why they haven't slowly trickled them back in by individual market.
I think they're playing it right.
It's gonna be like the McRib coming back hype on steroids.
Posted on 10/8/19 at 2:11 am to KosmoCramer
I had some kind of Mc'd Spicy bbq chicken sandwich and it was not good. 4.99 at that too. No better than their regular spicy and them dumping bbq sauce and some pickles on it.
Clearly Mc'd is aspiring to be like popeye's spicy.
Clearly Mc'd is aspiring to be like popeye's spicy.
Posted on 10/28/19 at 12:53 pm to jvargas
The sandwich returns Sunday!
Posted on 10/28/19 at 1:41 pm to GynoSandberg
quote:
Again, these issues don't exist if you're selling 100 a day. But for Popeyes, whose supply chain or restaurants were never set up to sell sandwiches much less 1k a day, it becomes a huge issue, much more than just "bake more buns"
I'm happy it will be back Sunday (i still have yet to have one), but I will never understand this.
You can move mountains if you are a huge operation like Popeyes. Spend the money to buy out some other contracts the supplier has. Make that money back by making each sandwich $.50 cents to $1.50 more expensive.
If they were $.50 cents more expensive, and each store was selling 1,000 a day, then you would make about $1.5 million a day or over $10 million in one week. One week would give you enough to buy out a smaller chains bread for a week. I'm not smarter than Popeye's CEO, but you shouldn't have the best product you've ever had off the market for 2-3 months
Posted on 10/28/19 at 2:53 pm to ProudLSUMom
quote:
The sandwich returns Sunday!
Taking a shot at CFA?
Posted on 10/28/19 at 3:10 pm to upgrayedd
quote:
The sandwich returns Sunday!
Taking a shot at CFA?
I don't think it's a coincidence!
Posted on 10/28/19 at 3:24 pm to ProudLSUMom
This is wonderful news!
Posted on 10/28/19 at 3:25 pm to Cole Beer
"Sandwishes" coming back sons!
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