Rats Run Wild in KFC-Taco Bell in N.Y.

[usaftmo]

"The parent company of KFC and Taco Bell _ still smarting from last year's E. coli scare _ has been forced back into damage-control mode after television cameras caught rats scampering around a restaurant floor".

http://fredericksburg.com/News/apmethods/apstory?urlfeed=D8NFVVQ00.xml

Rats!

Is this what Taco Bell meant by "think outside the bun"? :sarcasm:

[Cannikin]

1. Rats or not...

I think it was a HORRIBLE idea to merge those two places in to one. Those are two smells that do NOT go well together. Plus I ordered a chicken sandwich and they put the shredded lettuce and cheese from the taco bell side on it!

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

11. KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell are owned by the same company.

[Cannikin]

14. Yup. I've been waiting for them to sqeeze in the Pizza Hut too.

[Kutjara]

2. Someone must have left the fridge door open...

...for all those "chickens" to escape like that.

[NMMNG]

3. I saw that on TV

Eeeeew! :puke:

[SKKY]

4. And I though Greenwich was supposed to be upscale...

....what then do they have in, say, the south end of Louisville, Kentucky? This?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRals4HjyxM

[usaftmo]

5. Hey buddy!

GI's are in the house!
:party:

Thursday had some Navy customers drop by, and naturally they guessed my rank wrong. However I correctly guessed their rank as PO2! :woohoo:

[SKKY]

6. I was just in Norfolk, VA competing for the NCTAMSLANT sailor of the year...

...competition. Pretty big stuff right? The best of the best, right? After the board and the results were announced, we were all debriefed about how we did. One of the questions was, "What is your rank equivalent in the other branches of the armed forces." Only about half of us got it right. Un-freakin'-believable if you ask me. Anyway, good on 'ya! And it's always good to see my military brothers and sisters on DU!

[usaftmo]

9. Congratulations!

:toast:

We have sailors that train at this base as well as at nearby Naval installations (Gulfport and Pascagoula).

When I was a Staff Sergeant I got called Technical Sergeant a lot. Now that I'm a Technical Sergeant, I get called Staff Sergeant a lot! :crazy:

Something that I get caught on is that some sailors are called Airmen!

[Crabby Appleton]

7. How'd they get out? They're suppose to be kept in cages

until needed.

[Auggie]

8. There's another thread on this from yesterday, but I'll post this reply

again for the benefit off those unaware:

Many fast food franchises are being run by private investment firms that own and operate hundreds of restaurants. Example: Strategic Restaurant Acquisition Group, in San Ramon, CA., owns more than 250 Burger King Restaurants in six states: http://www.cerberuscapital.com/profiles/strategic_res_a... . They, in turn, are an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management that invests in everything from Aerospace to Real Estate.

The one I have experience with was run with a keen eye toward bottom line returns. Owning a restaurant hundreds or thousands of miles away makes one wonder just how closely they can be monitored for operational cleanliness. If they're earning good money I'm sure the parent company doesn't care and leaves it up to the local manager, who may or may not give a damn.

It's easy to see how in an organization like that even rats can slip through the cracks.

Don't know if that's the case with this particular KFC, but it's food for thought (no pun intended) next time you step into any franchised restaurant. And not just burger places, but Applebees, IHOP, Chevy's, etc.

[GoneOffShore]

10. Yet another reason not to eat at these places.

We don't eat at the corporately owned restaurants.

Here in Philly we have a really good restaurant scene. A guy named Steven Starr has done a lot to help that scene grow. Unfortunately he has also become a big corporate playah(sic) with "Theme Restaurants" both here and in NYC. This has meant a degradation in both food quality and service (Although the food at his places is pretty good. And 5 years ago before I became a real food snob, I would have been happy to eat at any of his places). This has happened because Starr, like Jeffrey Chodorow in NYC has lost his focus on the food and has turned to the "Bottom Line". Granted we all want to make money, some of us a lot of money, but if you open a restaurant, the idea used to be that you did it because you loved food, loved feeding people and incidentally made some money at it.

The big reason not to patronize Applebees, IHOP, Olive Garden, Outback, et al is that they really don't cook with love. I know that that's a really strange way to express it, but it's the only to characterize the best restaurants.

Judy Wicks here in Philly is a prime example of someone who has a restaurant and makes sure that the food is well produced, Same with the guys who run Standard Tap.

Far better to eat in a little diner or go to a privately owned pizza place or deli than to eat in Logoland.

[Danger Mouse]

13. Why would a capital management firm name itself after the watchdog of hell?

I mean, how can you be more obvious about how evil you are?
'Satan Capital Management'
'Beelzebub Capital Managment'
'Bush Capital Managment'

Got any other ideas?
Cerberus...good lord...

[Uncle Joe]

12. It was cosmic, I was flipping through the networks news and eating a chicken Chalupa,

and looking forward to my Gordita, when Brian Williams caught my attention and said if this is your dinner time, look away from the television, I didn't and regret the decision. Rat frickin city! My Taco Bell is hundreds of miles a way, from the infested one on television, but this made no difference to my appetite.:puke:

[bumblebee1]

15. I saw the rat video earlier this morning.

Damn!!!! How did those rats get into that restaurant?

[hfojvt]

16. there's gonna be a new video series coming out

"Rats gone wild"

[soleft]

17. across the street from that KFC rats run crazy in McDonalds Playland

I used to take my son there and when we were sitting out in the playground, as it started getting dark, the rats started to come out. We used to get chicken from that KFC too - ewwwwwww! Glad I dont eat fast food anymore.