Long Beach restaurant under fire for serving Popeyes chicken
abc7.com
A Long Beach brunch spot called Sweet Dixie Kitchen is under fire after customers found out the restaurant was re-serving Popeyes Louisiana Chicken.

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TIL A restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was found to be serving Popeye’s chicken and passing it off as their own. They would buy the chicken at Popeyes and upcharge for their own chicken and waffles d…

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Original Title: TIL A restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was found to be serving Popeye’s chicken and passing it off as their own. They would buy the chicken at Popeyes and upcharge for their own chicken and waffles dish. Once found out the owner refused to apologize.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      3 days ago

      A company that they have an agreement with to allow rebranding of the food. Which I doubt this place had.

      • breakingcups@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I don’t need an agreement from my burger place to sell a burger they made for me to someone else without being obligated to tell them it came from my burger place. There’s a lot of things that are iffy with this approach, but rebranding agreements aren’t one of them.

    • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      It’s not the chicken (as in, the piece of a dead bird) that’s the issue. You can get that anywhere. When I go to a restaurant or make something for myself, I’m looking to explore different flavors, cooking techniques, and ways of using that food. If I go to a mom and pop Italian restaurant, I want their recipes. If they just reheated something from the Olive Garden I could get it fresh from there. And I wouldn’t have any way of knowing prior to ordering that that’s what I was getting.

      Now, they’re not just serving a piece of chicken. They are transforming it into chicken and waffles. Maybe they came up with a waffle and stuff that perfectly complements the seasonings Popeyes uses. It gets murky, but I would think that a freshly fried piece of chicken is the centerpiece of the dish and I’d be pretty upset to get a reheated unoriginal piece like that.

      • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        You’re also getting ripped off because the restaurant owner is going to put a markup on the same exact product you could have gotten directly from the original restaurant.