re: When are the Popeye's GOAT chicken sandwiches coming back?

They are back. Did hear they lost a bunch of money because during the first marketing wave, no one could get to the window and order the more lucrative family size meals which they make more money on. Go figure

Popeyes workers have been on strike once they replace & train new workers it will be back.

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The only thing Chick Fila is better at is service. The food is way better at Popeyes

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Yea if you like playing raw chicken roulette

They weren't that great to begin with. I would give them a 2.

From the food board Popeyes thread. Posted 10/4

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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"

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