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The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak: 'Joe Biden Is Acting Like a King'
"Biden is acting like a king. Using power that I don't think the constitution grants him to write off the debts of millions of upper middle class Americans and transfer the cost to millions of blue collar Americans. Excuse me. Everybody knows he has no right to do this. How is it that he is trying to pull this off? Because this is as evil a thing as you can do. This is called bribing people for votes. This is called being such an unbelievably unprecedentedly horrible president that you say, let's do any desperate thing we can to get votes. This is the money to people. It's as if Joe Biden were to say, I'm using discretionary defense funds to deliver Popeyes fried chicken to everybody in America. Vote accordingly. This is on that level. What I've noticed because theology is kind of my beat is so called Christians progressive Christians are coming out and claiming that the gospel offers support for this massive wealth transfer from the upper middle class to the poor. For making your plumber and your garbage man pay for your gender studies degree from Vanderbilt. And people are actually going on social media and invoking that sort of dopey pseudo Christian style speech where they act even dumber than they really are. They're pretending that the gospel supports this.
Something Rhymes with Purple
"popeye" Discussed on Something Rhymes with Purple
"Have we got time to quickly before the break to give me the origins of coal and oil? Yes, I can definitely give you coal. So that is old English, this one, and it is Germanic, so it came to us from our Germanic invaders, but it meant a sort of glowing Ember, really coal, as it was COL in old English, rather than the substance that produces that glowing Ember. And eventually it was transferred. And there are a lot I think after the break wicked should do some idioms like hauling someone over the coals because not very pleasant, but a lot of people might not know where that began, for example. And oil, I have to admit to hear that I always thought that was Germanic, but it's not. It's Latin oleum, which referred especially to olive oil, I believe it or not. And then that came into French or old French as well. Oh, and then eventually it came into English, meaning the kind of viscous liquid, if you like, particularly the one that nowadays is derived from petroleum. So that's oil for you. And crude oil is so named because in Latin crudest unrefined, it's why the crude humor is unsophisticated. But crude oil, of course, is unrefined and unprocessed. One of the great mistress of my childhood, I used to love watching the Popeye cartoons on television and it was clear to me that Popeye and olive oil were not man and wife. He seemed to have olive oil as a girlfriend, and yet there was clearly a child called sweet pea. Oh yes. And I as a little boy couldn't understand how these people pop out olive oil had this child, sweet pea, when they weren't married. Yes, is that because he explicitly called to his girlfriend? Yes, I don't think they were mad. In fact, I think sweet pea may not necessarily have been his offspring. No. I'd never ever thought about that. Well, it could be that somebody, when you write to us at the purple purple people, you don't have to stick entirely to asking for etymology, you can also unravel the mysteries of my childhood if you know how to. Add something else dot com. We want to know the truth about olive oil. This.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Why Mindy Kaling's South Asian Velma Won't Hit Home
"Mindy Kaling. The actress who won't tell us who the father of her baby is, but we all know it's a former costar. B. J. Novak, she has created a Scooby-Doo animated spin off velma for HBO Max and she's making velma a South Asian brown skin girl. And she doesn't give a shit. Who doesn't like the idea? She said, if a dog can solve crimes and thelma can be brown. Hopefully you'll notice my velma is South Asian, she said, and the people freak out, I just don't care. You know what make you freak out? Mindy, your purple gums. I don't like your purple gums. That make me a bad guy? Just being honest. Well, good. I'm glad you don't care because not many people are going to care for your show. Velma, which will be animated and for adults. HBO Max is going to expand their adult animated programming. Velma tells the origin story of velma dinkley. Not really a name for a South Asian, but whatever. Velma dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo mystery ink Yang. And after the animated show was announced, Twitter blew up with openly racist complaints about caving new project and some people pointed out how making velma into a studious Asian nerd also plays into stereotypes. Listen, this is the thing. I hate that it has to be a race thing. I really do. I just, I don't like them changing characters from what they are in the first place and have been for decades, to me it's very off putting. You can't make a new character. There's Popeye have to be Latino going down the road. What are we doing?
Wisdom From The Top
"popeye" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"Sorry, this didn't work. We were very honest with ourselves about the facts, the items we chose to feature in the first ads didn't resonate. And if we didn't have our spokesperson yet, who we discovered of the following spring and we named her Annie, she spoke with such credibility about what was unique about our brand, she told stories beautifully. And we married Annie with better product innovation and better margins. And that's when the magic started to happen. And that campaign continued while it's still on there today. I want to ask you about Annie because there was some controversy as you know around Annie. There was some people critics who said, hey, you know, Annie makes me uncomfortable. It's sort of feels like a mammy or an aunt jemima kind of having an African American woman representing the brand. When you heard that criticism, what did you think? I mean, did you think I should just never thought about that before? Well, of course we wanted to be sensitive in how we brought forward our spokesperson for the brand. So what we focused on was did she resonate with our customer and our customer was 40% African American nationwide. And we spent lots of time with our customer and ask our customers to let us know what stories they want to be told and if you look very carefully about the stories we told through and they were all about the unique food characteristics of this region of the country called Louisiana. She just really drew you into the brand and the product stories we had to offer in the way she did her job. I know that you left the company in 2017. He stepped down after ten years running a company who led the company through ten straight years of growth. I think there are 2500 or more Popeyes restaurants around the world. I mean, you had an incredible success there, right? Like you were sort of the poster child for a turnaround leader, the tons of articles about how you were kicked out of KFC and then you turned Popeyes around this incredible triumph. But I read a quote of yours where you basically said, look, the thing that I didn't fully achieve was getting the trust from the franchisees that I the full trust that I'd hoped to have gotten. You turn the company around, why wasn't that relationship fully mended? The subtitle of that quote was trust with franchisees, not permanent. You have to earn it every day. And that does get frustrating to the leader. Sure. Because you think you should earn trust and it should stick. But the reality is this is an economic relationship. And so trust was good when sales and profits were good and trust evaporated quickly when they weren't. And that's just the way it works. So I think that's the color story behind that quote. I look back on that time and say, I'm confident we achieved the highest level of trust I've ever observed between franchisors and franchisees, but we still had a job to do of earning it every day. You are now retired and you still serve on some boards, including on Chick-fil-A's board, we're talking right now in the middle of the greatest global health and past week economic crisis, certainly health crisis that anyone has experienced in living memory. This is a huge test. I mean, whether it's for Popeyes or Chick-fil-A or KFC or any of the dominoes in the brands you've been associated in the bisco, this is a huge test for all of these brands. I mean, God, imagine being the CEO of Popeyes right now, right? I mean, what do you have to lay off thousands of employees or of KFC? If you were running Popeyes right now, can you imagine what you would, how would you even begin to kind of navigate this? This crisis. Well, you know, I'm privileged to sit on three boards and I'm watching really good leadership teams tackle the decisions right now live and so I think the current stories are the most relevant here. The trait that I most admire in leaders I'm observing right now is those that are willing to say, I've never seen this before and my first step is to proactively seek advice and counsel from other wise leaders, other trusted advisers. They are not saying I am the savior. I know all the answers. That is exactly wrong. The fastest way to move accurately in a crisis is to take many inputs fast and sort out wisdom from those many inputs. So very first COVID call I was on. A young leader asked his board to bring together all the years of their career wisdom. We walked him through 9 11. We walked him through 2008. We went back to World War II. We talked about the 1929 depression. We talked about the Spanish flu. We told this young leader about things they'd never heard about read about or been a part of the decision making. And I really believe that that leader took in tremendous wisdom fast by asking those questions was open to receiving that council. And as a result, garnered lots of lessons of history. You know, history really does repeat itself. And I think the listener and the learner is the best leader for this time. Cheryl, when you think about leadership and your own journey, do you think that at least from your perspective, you've kind of born to be a leader that you had those skills from an early age or that you really had to learn how to lead? I think in many ways was prepared to be a leader by my parents and my education. So I think there's a preparation and an environment that you come from that can prepare you well for leadership and I certainly had that opportunity. I do think there's some natural gifts that are imbued in leaders. And then you marry that with the experience of my career and the mentoring that I received from many other great leaders. It's a total puzzle piece, right? It's a total puzzle of those things coming together to prepare me for a time, and then also in prepare me not to think I'm the answer to all leadership solutions. You know, I think leaders also need to be able to say no, I'm not the right leader for this particular company or this particular time. So I never want to lose sight of that. That's Cheryl Beck elder. She's the former CEO of Popeyes, Louisiana kitchen. In addition to now serving on the board of Chick-fil-A, Cheryl also serves on the board of US Foods and pier one imports. Thanks for listening to the show this week, the music for this episode was composed and performed by drop electric. And guy raz and you've been listening to wisdom from the top from luminary, built in productions and NPR. 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Wisdom From The Top
"popeye" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"That's why you were hired to do the job. Am I right about that? Well, I think there's two sides of that nickel. One is I think thinking of others does not lessen the way I think of myself. When I teach leadership, I tell people the definition is not be a doormat or have no confidence. The definition, the simply push your decisions through a filter of others before you felt for yourself. And so the flip side of the coin, though, is leaders today worry far too much about what others think and say about them. And far too little about being true to the belief system that they bring to leadership. So I would tell you when I became confident in my leadership philosophy, which is governed by the words, courage, humility, purpose, and principles. I stopped worrying so much about other people's opinions of my leadership or my decisions. So this is the philosophy. And this is the leadership philosophy that you would take with you to Popeyes. And at this point, you're on the board, and then you are asked to become the CEO, I guess in 2007. And if I understand it correctly, when you agreed to become the CEO of Popeyes, they had like four CEOs in the previous 7 years, which is not a great record. I mean, the situation there's arguably presumably even less attractive in some ways than the KFC job that you took 6 years earlier. Well, it was a very difficult time. They too were suffering a distressed relationship with the franchise owners because along with those four CEOs had been 7 years of declining customer counts coming to the restaurants and declining profitability at the restaurants and the franchisees were not happy. And they were literally barging in to board meetings to express their dissatisfaction with the leadership. So yeah, it was a messy time. I now call this these are leaders that like to walk into burning buildings. Because I found it exciting. I really did find it exciting and an odd sort of way to say, wow, there's lots of complexity here. And I do think brave leaders have that kind of worldview. They say, problems are my opportunities. And so I looked around at all that and said, wow, this is fascinating. And I saw and Popeyes, actually, the makings of a beautiful brand because Popeyes had been launched out of this incredible food history called the state of Louisiana that's rich with recipes and culinary inspiration that comes from kind of a melting pot of cultures that's called New Orleans. And so I just literally started reading Louisiana cookbooks immediately to say where's the insight and the idea that we could anchor this brand. So I saw a brand opportunity and everything else was just kind of off kilter and needed to be brought back to kilter. The franchise relationships, the cost structure, et cetera. So I ran into the burning building. So one of the first things you did was you went on a listening tour. You went to visit a bunch of cities and talk to franchise owners. And just get a survey like to do a survey of what was on their minds. And why were they so angry? What did you learn from doing that? Well, you have to remember these are the people that borrowed the money to build the buildings hired the people trained them and were serving our guests every day and they hadn't seen top line or bottom line growth in the business in years. And those that were building new restaurants were getting zero cash on cash returns. It was pretty desperate financial circumstances. What was it was there just a general downturn in fast food or was it Popeyes specific challenge? No, it was Popeye specific. We had not done our job of building this great brand. There was just lots of opportunity to tell the story of Popeyes in a fresh way that became the story of Popeyes Louisiana kitchen. We renamed the entire company. The second pillar was we were a fast food restaurant with the slowest drive-through times in the industry. We ranked 98 out of a hundred. Now, that's just brain dead. You can't be called quick service restaurant, right? They have terrible drive-throughs. So we decided to fix our drive-throughs. Third thing is we weren't making any money at the store level. Well, that's just a recipe for disaster. We found $45 million in the supply chain that just wasteful just wasteful spending or yeah, just lack of good practice and how we sourced and bid things out. Just lots of missed opportunity and that whole supply chain arena. And out of those three things, we created the economics that made people want to build more and we built over a thousand restaurants in the next several years. It was an a you get there in 2007. Your CEO number 5 in the previous 7 years and now there's a lot of pressure on you to turn this around. And people want quick results. And one of the, from what I read, one of the early things you did was to really convince the franchise owners to contribute a percentage of their money to pay for ads, national ads, and that Popeyes would throw in a lot of money and you would do national ads on cable television. First of all, I'm just, I was shocked to find out that in 2007, 2008, there was no national advertising for Popeyes. No, and it's fairly normal in a restaurant's development that there's a tipping point you reach where suddenly national television is far more cost effective than local. And we had reached that tipping point a few years back but had not acted on it. There was a lot of distrust between the franchise or the franchisees. So we started rebuilding trust and one of the ways we did that was making that decision together. We brought in a third party expert to show us the facts. And then my team made this brave proposal. Why don't we start with three national flights of television to prove that it works? And the franchisees said, well, give us some time to talk. And when they invited us back in the room, they said, well, if you want to be brave, why don't you kick in some money and we'll do 5 flights. They're proposal was far braver than our proposal. And they ask us to put skin in the game. And that's what we did. And oh my goodness, I'm so glad we went in it, locked arms because we launched that campaign in the fall of OA when the wheels came off the economy. And had we not built that plan together, there's no way we would have seen it through under the pressure of the crash of O 8. Our franchisees did not flinch in the fall of OA, even though it was not going well at all. We stuck with that media commitment for 18 months and we came out a market share winner on the other side of the economic collapse. Now, Popeyes is seems like it's everywhere and it's a huge, it just grew and leaps and bounds. But initially, I mean, when you started that national ad campaign, it was not successful. It didn't move really move the needle. And I guess you kind of came out and you said, hey, I'm.
Wisdom From The Top
"popeye" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"To do real breakthrough new product launches that stood the test of time. One of the brands I think you were kind of in charge of launching was the planter's honey roasted peanuts, right? Is it right? Yes, honey roasted peanuts was one of the first innovations in nuts and a very, very long time. I mean, how do you go through peanuts? It just seems like a no brainer. It tastes great. I can't believe it took until what the 80s for somebody, for somebody to come up with that. The specific origin of that idea was in a small southeastern competitor that had kind of a candied coating on a nut. And so I guess the key to all product innovation is to start with the marketplace and start with the customer. And in that case, you know a scan of all the innovative smaller nut companies that were largely in the south at that point in time. And they were experimenting with flavor profiles and techniques that we had not tried. We had scale, but we didn't necessarily have the experimentation going on. That's a strategy all large companies can use is to look to smaller, faster moving and be fast followers. And probably the one that the second one I'm most passionate about from that time frame is gummy savers because remember those, yeah, sure they're still around. They're very much around a created a whole new way to think about lifesavers candy and was the first really fresh tasting gummy product made in the USA before that they were hard to chew bears that usually came from Germany. I think most of us trained as MBAs think we're supposed to come up with all the brilliant new ideas and launch our ideas. But in fact, the really big ideas come from your customers mouths. And so they don't say the customer usually can't say, well, I think you should launch gummy savers, but they can say, you know, of all the candies, I really don't like it when those bears get stuck on my teeth. And if you're listening carefully to that, you can say, listen, there's something they like about a more tender chew product. But it can't be stale and the flavors have to be good. Oh, lifesavers has really good flavors. I wonder if we could make a more gel based Chewy product. So insights that come straight out of the customers observations instead of our own heads are far more likely to yield a meaningful business opportunity. I'm guy rose and you're listening to wisdom from the top. We'll be right back. This message comes from NPR sponsor, the Alzheimer's association, connecting across industries with the shared goal of finding treatments for Alzheimer's and all other dementia. Since 1980, the Alzheimer's association has been working to fund critical research that increases the understanding of Alzheimer's disease, but they knew that an important part of the fight against Alzheimer's is also making sure that research is more accessible to people around the world. That's why they created the Alzheimer's association science hub, a free app that provides the latest news, information, and expert views about Alzheimer's and dementia research. Through the app, users can read research and news, access grant summaries and journals or receive breaking news alerts on the latest findings. To download, just visit your device's App Store and search for science hub, expand your knowledge with the science hub today, available where you get your apps. Welcome back to wisdom from the top. I'm guy Roz. All right, so you are at nabisco working in successfully launched two iconic products. You've got this successful career. You're probably on the fast track to bigger leadership posts and 92. You decide to kind of step out for a while. To focus your time on your kits and raising your kids, right? We had young children. I believe our kids at that point were about maybe two and 7. My husband had aging parents with health issues in Michigan. And I was kind of fed up with the leadership of nabisco at that point. It was going through a lot of change. And that confluence event said, you know, I think we can reevaluate this whole thing and try something different. So that's what we did. We picked up our kids. My husband called it an early midlife crisis. And he always says, and I don't recommend you both quit your job on the same day, which is what we did. We gave up all the stability. We actually living near my family at the time, so we moved away from my family to his, gave up our jobs and started fresh when you left nabisco in 92. Did you think that it was going to be a pause and you would go back to work or are you not sure? I never thought those decisions were either or I thought they were at a point in time. And I really encourage young families to think about it this way. Life and work is one whole equation, it is difficult to keep it all sorted out and working well. And so to not be so linear in your thinking that I always must work or I always must stay home or there's one answer for the next ten years. I just always thought that was overblown thinking. We had more of a two or three year view of our life and family. That's about the time frame you can even picture, right? 'cause you don't know what the next stage looks like, really. Certainly don't know. And so what are our kids need now, what are our careers where they at, what are the implications? But I took two major breaks in my 40 year career. And they did not topple over my career. No, in fact, to the contrary. I would suggest that during those breaks, there was some time of reflection looking back and looking forward. A chance to catch your breath, a chance to make sure you feel right about your family decisions and that everyone in your family's prospering, not just one or two of you. I think those are healthy. I think they're healthy things. I think it helps you live a life with fewer regrets. If you give yourself those breathing opportunities, I want to ask you about Domino's. Because you take this break from, I think, from around 92 to 95. And you were doing some consulting work on the side. But mainly you were at home. And I guess Tom monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, which is based in Michigan where you were living at that point. I guess he offers you a job to become a senior vice president for marketing and product development. How does that how does it even come to you? What's the story? How does he find out about you? Well, it was quite serendipity. I had a mentor in New York named Laurel cutler, who was the vice chair of an ad agency. And she had really developed me as a strategic advertiser. I really adored her, and she was an adviser to Tom monaghan. He was a private company, but he had a board of advisers, and she was on it. So we're living in Michigan. I call up Laurel, and I said, I understand Tom monaghan needs a marketer. I would like for you to put my credentials in front of him. And she said, oh, honey, why would you want to do that? And I said, well, Laurel, it's a great brand. It's right next to where I live. And it appears to have a real turnaround brand opportunity. And she goes, well, of course, I'll call him right now. And so there's only like two examples of my whole career of that kind of mentor moment when she picked up the phone and said, Tom, you need to call Cheryl and you need to call her right away. And so I think we had lunch the Tom monaghan and I had lunch the following Friday at that lunch. He wrote the offer on a napkin. And he's quite famous for this. He's done it with baseball players and executives both. He wrote it on a napkin and he asked for an immediate answer. And I said, well, Tom, I'm honored to have this opportunity..
Doughboys
"popeye" Discussed on Doughboys
"Invited. Fucking nerd? At the road. A bit a classy, big fucking, what's one of the oldest state? I'm trying to think of like an old old steakhouse, like in New York like 1912. One of the best old steakhouses in the world. That's where I want to. There's the one on there's the one in Williamsburg from before Williamsburg was like a cool spot. Yeah. That what the fuck is that place called, but apparently that place is kind of declined a little bit. I think it might be COVID related. But then there's this cash only steakhouse that everyone loves there. I think the kind of place you're thinking of, I'll look it up. Kyle Mooney told me to keen steakhouse in New York City once and I liked it a lot. Yeah, I think that's what I got to do. I think that used to be like on Sundays. We'd sometimes have steak wags. It would be like Sunday would be like steak dinner, and to me that's always kind of like, I don't know, it means something in my mind. Peter Luger is the steakhouse. Here's what I'm gonna say, Mitch. Shout out another one of your favorite foods. Yeah. I think this is gonna be like a sort of casual sort of event. I go to a pizza parlor, people can shift seats, they can move around if you want to have a one on one conversation. Get a bunch of pie. Everyone loves pizzas, everyone likes pictures of soda, like pitches a brew dogs. Have myself a little pizza party. That'd be a blast. As I'm talking with psy loon, the inventor of paper. I want to pick his brain. Is Gandhi there? Gandhi's noise. What about the toppings? Gotta have Gandhi. What are the topics? When I see pepperoni. Oh, toppings, yeah. Well, you can have a veggie pie. It's fine. All right. Van, what do you think? We're having, you're having your historical dinner, you're having some of your favorite figures. I'm taking them to the platinum plate club winning 5 four restaurant Popeyes. I love it. Wow. What fun would it be? We got with for you, van, Jeffrey Dahmer, who else? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's there, of course. He is the musical guest. Hey, he also got some inkling. I'm your host, Ted Bundy. Yeah, I think that it's always an interesting exercise. I always just think this thing would be so fucking awkward. Like, I don't like having dinner with like people I.
Doughboys
"popeye" Discussed on Doughboys
"For a moment this dad's too my life my snack. Wives, we're gonna keep rolling here. Wow, there's more song. That's right. As we see through all playing in waist deep water, wow. We've had our share of chips and dips drink doctor peppers and some mist appears. Two funny souls, but now we have to choose between a skittles that don't or a jelly bean. This shit ain't easy cocoa Pepsi choose one you will never make drinks for fun then we can't just for a moment I've been wax hopes I don't choose his favorite drink. God. Favorite drink? I just want to eat some nerds again. I just want to drink some sprites again. Fritos are. Two..
Doughboys
"popeye" Discussed on Doughboys
"Have called me irreverent. There is residue on that mask. So if you have COVID, some have told me, mister slapp. That's true. Which is funny because I just no longer slice. I am just spoon man now, which is, you know what? Makes sense. I came here to impart my simulation to theory. The slap was 9 11 for the simulation within the simulation. Everything is now on the reality is 51% online, 49% out here in the algorithm is constantly sending men treating candidates out here in this world in order to perform there and also ancient spirits are using young bug mains and mister slaps as conduits to arc themselves onto the new reality. I believe it. I do believe it. And also we're all on board. All of you guys and all this podcast is going to be the only thing left of all of us. You guys are arcing yourselves. You guys are arcing yourselves into the new reality with these podcasts. You understand. Bug, I have a question for you. Yes. Did you eat at Popeyes? No. Okay. Oh, he's done. I did give him that. He's done. He's done. Oh, he's looks like he's leaving. I think that might be it. Bug. He's walking. He's cheering. Raising his bottle, and then walking out of Mitch's now it's James closing the door behind him. James is there alone. James, did you eat a Popeyes? Asked James if he ate a Popeye. Did you eat Popeye's James? No, not recently. Did you like Popeyes about it? Okay. I like Popeyes, yeah, yeah. What would you give it out of out of forks? How many forks would you give it? I'd say four forks, yeah. Four folks. Four forks, four forks from James. I'm going to say this, James. You want to give him a microphone? He's got one. I'm just not as loud as bug, I think. So I'll just scream more. James came in and I could have helped with the tech situation because I've done this a lot, but I immediately I had to put the cats in my room. That's where I went off to. And I could hear you guys the whole time. Yes. I want to have to put the cats in my room because I was afraid there were people here. I want to take care of the cats immediately where my head went. And then second, I went to clean up the kitchen. So while you guys were doing the tech stuff, my place was quite a mess. And so today was the day I was going to clean it. I didn't expect to bug main surprise. Look at that. A little mushroom left by bug man, is the top, the top of his bottle, a little mustard. Look at that. A little mushroom left from bug man. She didn't eat it. See what happens? I mean, also, I think it would be hard to eat. But look. One pill makes you smaller and everyone makes you large. Makes you chill. So let me just quickly say, I want to talk about, like I said, I only got the sweet heat, I only got I only got the wild honey mustard. I got myself wag some red beans and rice. I got those red beans and rice too, which I believe do are made with sausage. And this is the thing. Look, here's the thing. I'm not eating red meat. I'm not eating pork as a rule, but I have a little bit of leeway with byproducts that are present because you know you'll go to a taqueria and their beans will be made with lard and whatever. I'm personally giving myself a little leeway there or if like fish sauce is in something, you know, back when I wasn't eating fish. But I am conscious of that. So yeah, I believe the red beans are rice, which are, to me, an elite, an S tier, fast food size. Oh yeah. Very best fascinating love sides. On my mouth sides more. Is made with sausage. Yeah, absolutely. I also got myself some homestyle Mac and cheese or just a regular size of that. I got the popcorn shrimp. I can't believe you're just trying to do the episode. What are we doing at this point? Let's just get our fork score. This is something that you would do. I'm trying to do something you would do. I like the visit from bug. I haven't seen my friend all year. He slapped you in the face, at least ten times. I liked seeing my friend bug. A regular sized home style Mac and cheese. I got the popcorn shrimp, which was pretty good. That came with French fries, the Popeyes French fries, which are the occasion fries, the occasion fries. Biscuits, a biscuit came with that, the biscuits always great. I dipped that in my red beans and rice and I dipped it in my mashed potatoes and gravy. I got a large mashed potatoes and gravy. I got a feast. That's everything I got. I covered the red beans and rice, fries, everything. That's everything I got. The Coke was good, the lemonade was pretty good. The fish sandwiches, a little fishy, but I still liked them. The pumpkin shrimp good and wise, there was one thing I didn't say that I got. Yeah, I got myself a spicy chicken sandwich. Wow. Which, look, and look, I got a frozen strawberry lemonade, just came as a regular frozen lemonade. That's what I got. I think with the mashed potatoes. And I loved my spicy chicken sandwich. It's still great. They still do a great job. Great sandwich. Sandwiches. That's a good sign. It's not coming back. No, no, he's done. That was it, I think. I think he's done. No, I did get a text message from him just a moment ago that he wants you to plug bolt driver dot LA. Great. Yeah. Old driver dot N 8, the original film bolt driver. Find out more about James did a great job..
Doughboys
"popeye" Discussed on Doughboys
"Was not me. Oh, it was Emma. That was Emma? Wow. We had a rare Emma. Emma, you fucked up. I was trying to build cute lists for Nashville and it just started playing all the keys at once. So loud. I'm monitoring the shit out of me. Wow, it was very loud. I can only imagine how it was for you. They had no offense, fan. I thought you were pulling some bullshit. I didn't know. I thought it was 100% some fan bullshit. I've got better bullshit than that to pull. My bad. I'll be myself now. Wow. Wow. First time ever. Yeah, wow. Bono, update the doughboys wiki. We have our first ever Emma steam. Emma fuck up. Emma's now fucked up more than me. I'm first of us with no fuckers. Wow. So the so the things they introduced. First off, we're not just in the golden age of fast food chicken sandwiches because of Popeyes. We are also in a fast food fish sandwich. Sort of silver angel colon. They're not quite as omnipresent, but there are a lot of chains trying new versions of a fish sandwich. The BK big fish, I think, is quite good. The Arby's fish sandwich, Mitch, you and I both had multiple versions of is probably the best in the game right now. And it's really, really good. It's fantastic. And you know what else is really good? The spicy flounder fish sandwich from Popeyes, which I had for the first time. It's very similar to their chicken sandwich in terms of concept. It's got the pickle. It's got the sauce, the same sort of spicy sauce. It's got that same sort of bun form factor. But great piece of fish. I thought this was super duper super duper satisfying. A decent amount of heat and I was a big fan of the sandwich. I also had it. Wow. Wow. This is not planned. We just all put it in a ding. Okay. I'm accidentally puts in a fart. Another mistake. All the things in the past 5 years have all been farts. Just a really tight butthole. That's why it sounds like a ding. Exactly. Look at that, why is the hat trick? Wow, Popeyes. The hat trick with us. Wow. Now what Popeyes did you guys get your sandwiches from? I went to the one, the one that I go to normally is on la brea. It's the and it's a good Popeyes. It's a very solid Popeyes. They're always very crowded and I was hoping he was online ordering, 'cause the Popeyes app is not crap, but this often happens with this place, particularly when I want it is that mobile ordering will be disabled. They're just so impacted they can accommodate them. So I had to go IRL and wait for a spell. That said, worth the wait, very, very good meal, and it's a good Popeyes. Good service. Mitch. Which one did you go to? I was a Glendale boy. I want to get out of boulevard. Yeah. I went to the Hollywood Boulevard pot pies, probably Los Angeles worst Popeyes. A chaotic Popeyes. It's a chaotic Popeyes. It's very tiny. It's a really dirty Popeyes, just the restaurant itself is doesn't seem like they clean it a lot. I don't blame the people who work there. I think you clean it, and it gets immediately messy. Yes. Right near IO. The old IO right near the shell. A former improv theater on Hollywood Boulevard. There's no more laughter in the dick box. Yeah, they had they had a second stage called the dick Bond. Yes. I think Andy dick is living in there though. Costar from love. Yeah, I'm cool with that. But yeah, it was the sandwich was still good. I did mobile order it. And it was ready when I picked it up. 'cause that is not the busiest Popeyes, actually. And yeah, it was pretty good. Mine was a little dry. I'll be honest. But I enjoyed the sandwich in concept. And the flavor was good. It just was a little dry. I think maybe they didn't put enough sauce on it or not. I'd rather have the chicken, the chicken sandwich, I guess if I talk about the flounder sandwich, but if you're not eating chicken or if you just want to change a pace, I mean, it's a great option. Well, speaking of chicken sandwich, I think this is the exact same place I got that chicken sandwich. I think it was the same the same Popeyes, which Nick, did you come, did you go to that Popeyes at one point with me? I don't know who cares. But I but I've been to all, I've been to all of these Popeyes. I've been to multiple area Popeyes. I can't remember if the Glendale Popeyes is the one where I got the chicken sandwich, 'cause I got one from the Hollywood Boulevard location and I got another one. They didn't have it at the la brea one. So I went to the Hollywood one when the chicken sandwich was first introduced to wait in line, and then they also went to one in the valley, it might have been the Glendale location. That was the one where some YouTube pranksters ended up in the YouTube video. Oh, I remember that story. You're in the YouTube video. I'm in the YouTube video. They came in and they were dressed up as Chick-fil-A employees talking about how they were just like trying to get people to not eat the Popeyes chicken sandwich. But it sounds like a funny prank. It was pretty funny. No, it's crazy. Is that even that feels so weird? That doesn't feel like it happens anymore. It feels like even YouTubers have given up a bit on things like that. Sure. Well, it's all moved to TikTok and there's no time to set that up. Yeah. You just punch somebody in the face or something, and then that's all you got. That's it. Well, I'm with vin. I thought it was good in theory. And but I thought the sandwich was a little fishy tasting. I think that that Arby's fish sandwich is so good. It's fucking grand and it just has a great taste going and then the Popeyes one was a little bit fishy for me just not as good like and also look, you got the chicken sandwich there that's just knocks it out of the park. And then the fish sandwich just isn't as good as that. But still good, still a good offering. I got both. I got the spicy flounder fish sandwich and I also got the classic flounder fish sandwich..
Doughboys
"popeye" Discussed on Doughboys
"They're like, oh, stay 30 minutes. But we got to get Rob Lowe back. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, I was going to say, I got into this, I'm sure everyone before tuning in went and pulled up my yogurtland episode and gave it a full re listen just to catch up. But you did yogurt land? Yeah, you guys gave me a real shitty place. Because I was supposed to do Popeyes. I got into this before. I was supposed to do Popeyes one. And Mitch did give it away to another guest. That's right. And, you know, I'm from New York. So early days of doughboys. We're Popeyes. You know, what am I supposed to Popeyes was based originally? Popeyes started in a suburb of New Orleans araby, which is where I lived when I was born for the first year and a half of my life. I've got a lot of connections personally to it, but that wasn't important to old mitchy. Do you know what the this is 7 years ago, you know, it's a sort of thing of like Popeyes was still maybe in like the Popeye. Like that Popeye phase. It wasn't the Louisiana kitchen as much. I wonder if they've done the right thing. I just try to make an excuse because we didn't have them all. We had you on in the first dozen episodes or so, didn't we? The 68. Pretty good. Yeah, we started in 2015. That is the first dozen or so. I think the qualifies. Do you know van as someone from the town where this was founded back in 1972? Do you know what Popeyes was originally called? Yes, it was called chicken on the run. Emma, can we put it like a ding sound in there? Mmm um. Okay, sorry to create more work for you. No, that's totally fine. All right, I'm just gonna put a ding in there. It'll be really great. We really great. And then now there's some people like it. There was sort of a lawsuit and controversy involving Popeyes because they were heavily associated with the Popeye, the sailor man trademark early on. And this is something people, especially New Orleans were made to think because there was a local television kids show called Popeye and pals. Which the way that worked was they would show the Popeye cartoons and then between the cartoons there would be like a live segment with like a bunch of kids sitting and watching the cartoons and a host. This was a pretty common format I think back in the 50s and 60s on TV. But the sponsor of Popeye and pals in the 70s was Popeyes. Chicken. Wow, okay. And so I'm gonna put a ding in there too. That caused people to associate the two. Eventually they got sued by king features syndicates, which is a subsidiary of the Hearst corporation. And Al Copeland, the founder claimed that he'd never had anything to do with it the Popeye cartoon. It was named after Popeye Doyle, the film character. The French connection from the French connection, which is definitely not true. Right. And I remember as a kid, they started putting Popeye the sailor man on the bags. And the reason was during the lawsuit, he just started using the actual trademark as like a weird power play. Wow. You want to see trademark infringement? This is trademark infringement. I don't know if there was some legal theory that he was hoping they'd sue him for that and he'd say, well, if that's trademark infringement, what was I doing before? I don't know what, but he was a crazy restaurateur, this alcohol guy who died a few years ago. He was kind of a New Orleans local celebrity he would race cigarette boats. Yes. I've read some of this about him and that I guess he had a big feud with Ann rice at some point. He had a celebrity. Yeah. I believe she also died recently, right? So now they did. They're both feuding in hell. What are you saying? I said they're being chewed by Lucifer's mouths. Oh Jesus, yeah. It sounded like you said Lucifer's mouse. Lucifer's mouse is also down there. Mauser is like, yeah, Bowser is the balance. I said Mouser. Mouser, of course, from Super Mario Brothers two, yes. Come on, wigs. I thought you said Bowser. Mauser, Mouser, Mouser. As a Mauser or Mouser. I always thought it was Mouser. Like not like not like a sound like a sis sound, 'cause miles sounds more like German and bad. Mouser. Mouser's got sunglasses, right? He's got sunglasses. He's kind of cool. He's cool. Yeah, he's fucking awesome. Here's the deal. Time goes by fast. You can't keep track of stuff. It's true. What are we supposed to do? Hey, wanna feel old? The boy from boyhood? Just die to old age. Yeah. RIP. The boy from, I said boyhood weird. Yeah, he's down there now, getting bombs. But he's smart, like he's he'll grab a bomb and throw him back. Which is how you beat Mouser. How did the kid from boyhood out of the age faster than Ethan Hawke? Died before hawk, it's amazing. Hawks in hox and Moon Knight. Now look, I'm not someone who watches the MCU. But Natalie was like, look, I want to check out Moon Knight. I think because Oscar Isaac is very hunky. I think that was part of it. I think she also just kind of like some of that stuff. So we're watching MCU. Am I? The Mitch comedic universe. Oh boy. You know what? Our show should be like, showtime at the Apollo, where if something goes wrong, there should be a siren and we should get fucking taken off this date. Yeah, yeah. And then the podcast is clown with the hook. The problem with the hook. I mean, that would have happened much earlier in the episode is the issue. I never would have even gotten worse. It'll only be a few minutes long, everyone will be fine with it. Yeah, they started talking about Tom Hanks Dante's trilogy. And then the podcast edited it. It was like the two minute 52nd button. What's the Dante connection to those? Yeah, that's very confusing. Because they're dating Brown books. They're Dan Brown books. I think the second one or the third one is called inferno. And that's why I always think of that. Third one, okay, which is the least seen one, so I probably shouldn't think of them in dog day terms. It's the da Vinci. It's the damaging. Vinci code. Okay. Films. So I was gonna speak up earlier, but I felt like I hadn't been introduced yet,.
Doughboys
"popeye" Discussed on Doughboys
"Welcome to doughboys the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick weger, along with my co host, Dante's digiorno. The spoon man, Mike Mitchell. Like Dante's inferno. Inferno, but digiorno, that was courtesy of Ian Ian in his email, perhaps with a little bit of hubris as three good roast. Claims to have set in a triforce of good roast, Dante's digiorno was the first. The other one's the uncrustable hunk. I'm sorry, the uncrustable hulk, rather I mangled that delivery. The encrusted hole is better. I think it looks pretty good. And H alla the honey, that one is going to tell the hund pun, roast spoon man at Gmail. He had to get all of the honey. All three of them aren't that good, but I would say that if anything uncrustable, hulk is close to good. Yeah. They're all fine. Thanks, Ian. I mean, yeah, that little too much hubris from this person. Whatever. Look, wait, what was it again? Dante's digiorno. Dante's dessert digiorno. Well, it's funny because Dante's inferno isn't hell cold? The deepest level of hell is cold. The deepest level of hell is cold, that is where the three faces of Lucifer eternally weeping chew on the three betrayers for all time. In my memory, I'm trying to remember who those are. I think one of them is Brutus and I don't know the other ones are. Ray Allen for going to the Miami Heat. After winning a championship with the Boston Celtics, yeah. He's forgiven. He's out of hell. He's back. He's back on earth. Which happens sometimes. They made three of those Tom Hanks, Dante movies. Like, people forget there's a third one. But they made like the fucking what was the first one called the da Vinci code. They made the da Vinci code. And then they made two more. I think the second one was Dante movies. I think of Dante's peak as Dante's Dante movie. It tells us I've made a sequel to Dante's peak. Overdue. Bring back that IP. Why? Rough performance by the Lakers this weekend. I mean, yeah, yeah. Wait, well, on Sunday, as of this record, they won against the nuggets. They won the season finale. Oh, the team sucks, though. I was talking about winning time. Oh, you're talking about you're talking about the TV show winning time. I am not caught up. I'm not cut up on the Adam McKay HBO Max series winning time. How are the real lifers doing? Not great. They're not doing great. They're terrible. They didn't make the playoffs. That was an absolute debacle of a season. Horribly constructed team, just and they respond by firing the coach, complete which Frank Vogel, not his fault. He didn't build this roster. Just complete mismanagement, just a total total front office debacle. Meanwhile, wags, we're not scared. We're the two seed. We're going after Brooklyn. We are, we, you mean, you mean the Boston Celtics. Yeah, we'll see. As of this episode, record. As of this episode release, well, they will probably be in their first round series against whoever comes out as the 7 seed from the little play in tournament. Do you think the Cavs can take it? I mean, I think it's possible. They have no Jared Allen, I don't think for the play in game. Look, this will all be the distant memory by the time but also really supposed to do. You're not supposed to talk about stuff on podcasts that's happening. It's not so cool. You can talk about evergreen topics. You could be conscious of our relationship. Boring. You have to. It's not boring. It's happening. We were having great banter earlier about Tom Hanks. Dante's trilogy. You got it wrong. People are loving that shit. So when does this come out 2024? Yeah, this will be out. We'll be in the thick of the next presidential election. I guess this will be out in a while. You famously said that Hillary Clinton had won and become president. You were wrong. I know. I mean, we could have changed it. We had time to change it, but I thought we thought it was funny that that was baked into the episode. And then it ended up just bumming people out. People said depressing. People said it was traumatic because that episode released like the Thursday after election day or whatever when Trump won and that'd be saying that it congrats to Hillary..
Mark Levin
Mark Levin Addresses 'Life, Liberty & Levin' Not Airing Last Sunday
"I will speak bluntly I've heard from a lot of you A whole lot of you That you were quite angry That life liberty and Levin did an air this Sunday And so we got two hours of Trey gowdy I get it The program I had prepared was totally relevant that was taking place but they wanted live programming And this Sunday I couldn't do it So we put together a fantastic show We had Alan west And James Carr found out two combat retired lieutenant colonels And I thought a killer monologue and we went into this a great depth Nothing really changed on Sunday from a newsworthy perspective That required the program to be preempted or canceled if you will But because the push was for all live programming we couldn't do it So I regret it You would have loved the show I'm sure I'm trying to avoid the same fate for this Sunday And I will do the very best I can But there's going to reach a point that if this keeps happening there's no point in me ever doing this show right Mister producer It's not a threat It's just okay If you want to do more of the same I'm not the guy I'm not the more of the same guy I'm just not It's the same with radio It's the same book writing It's the same with the Levine TV on blaze It's Popeyes said I am who I am And I don't mean maybe Or something like that Been a long time since I've watched Popeye
Giant Bombcast
"popeye" Discussed on Giant Bombcast
"Whole entire process. And then throwing bottles at you and you're punching the bottles. They throw bottles at you, but they don't tell you that they're going to throw bottles at you. Why is that? Do you have no one tells you, but no, that's real life. No one's like, hey, I'm gonna throw bottles at you. They're like, fuck you man. They're gonna throw bottles at you. Someone in the house that can stop him. Oh, shit. No, it's better if he gets this out of his system. Why? Popeye. 13. We're no better. We're enabled us. That's right. That's right. Expensive. Oh my God. No. Mistakes were made. Well, how big is the heavens? I don't even 35 K my favorite part of this game, though, is when you do punch bluto or the vulture, it's just a very loud like wapping sound like. It's out from behind you. Also, I love when the vulture comes in because it's literally just a human just going and then that's it. I love that you're so false guys here that you have to say sending nice about Popeye. It's just the delivery. He's really not seeing anything nice. It's just how he sees how he's saying. Here. Uh oh, uh oh. Okay..
Off The Meatrack Chainz New York Podcast
"popeye" Discussed on Off The Meatrack Chainz New York Podcast
"If we all right i wasn't gonna talk about something. Okay here we go. So popeye's is wrapping up for Nuggets craze lessons learned from sandwich. Madness us so much competition when it comes to You know fast food politics. Isn't it all right. Pop is gearing up for the release of its chicken nuggets in more ways than one because it desperately wants to avoid the violence that came with its sandwich chaos who can forget the nationwide man in fall twenty nine when folks were scrambling kicking in even punching to get the rest of us. New chicken sandwich walleyes were the least of their troubles as multiple Out of hand and dare was even a fatal stabbing dan. Why questions who the hell fights over a damn. She consume rich like like what why. This is just nuts to me in. I find it very interesting this my we actually fight over a damn chicken sandwich. Dam is really is really worth it. Is it really that good. Like whistle special about it is it. The ingredients is it. Is it Is a different texture. Like what is it like. come on. i'll can wait okay. Let me continue this. Nearly two years later. A rep full popeye's tells teams the the sandwich released problems are still fresh india minds and of course system france franchisees have worked to increase stabbing no skews me staffing to be exact to better meet the demand for pop. Is new chicken nuggets now. I'm not sure if popeye's chicken nuggets is buried in mcdonalds war. But one of these days i'm going to have to one of these days are managed to try it out. See how different. The texture is compared to mcdonald's. I'm not sure when. I'm gonna do that but i will do that some day. I'm not sure would day but you know you know the jisr anyway Talk corporate Are visiting locations all over the us in person to identify ways. Firsthand brand can quickly meet the excitement. Interest from our guests of our new product likewise adnan What is it added Ninety president of popeye's operations for the hani the hanana group tells teams the it staffing up at all. It's roughly three hundred franchises in assist. Employees will be ready for the high demand for nuggets. E says everyone was caught off guard by the twenty nineteenth centers craze. But now they know what to expect. And we'll be more properly equipped to handle it d- hanalani is a big concern about running out of supply when the nuggets roll out july. Twenty seven this year which probably happened already Hopefully people end up killing each other over it Pop is reportedly already stockpiling. Just in case other popeye's Sources tell us franchise. Managers have been assured that if things get too crazy like last time security would be increased. Where demand is particularly high to keep everyone safe. Yeah i think security should should happen in the first place instead. It went out a hand. Saw gladly actually. I'm glad they actually came to the conclusion soup. Put more security out there so things. Don't don't go crazy like those baby. Kids are mean you are saying okay um saba habit that i did not get a chance to actually talk about the man. This was this was in the damn news recently. whole on and this is guarding it actress. This is regarding actress. Who goes by the name of recruiting palmer now palm. According to tmz started started with a billboard ad now. We're here lead in tyler perry series. Oh boy oh man. I don't know that was a right. I don't know thousand approach. But i wanna i wanna which face to face and maybe had one conversation about the wasting a bunch of money on a fucking build. But but i'm not. I can't even tell you. Topper was basically impressed by this though but oh man home on alone all all a. Let's read this man. All right palm went from desperately pleading for tyler. Perry's attention to starring in one of his shows but she doesn't recommend her billboards tactics to others the actress. Oh shit of the actress famous putting up a billboard to try a get tough tyler. Is our attention tells e she has now a leading role in tyler. Perry's up current. Show all the queen's men but they've never talked about the billboard and almost pretended like never happened all boy remember. The billboard went up back in twenty nineteen and the stunt. Help raquel link.
Beach Talk Radio
"popeye" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"Sam's marina so please go out there give them a call. Get out there take your time. Enjoy some outdoor time See some dolphins. see some manatees. You never know what you're gonna find out there so now i'm gonna send it back to you dear because you're full of it today. Thank you all right. You do a lovely job reading the ads. come on back over into the studio wife. We've got a another great guest lineup for today. All it just feels like the show is flying by today. Everybody we have movie trivia coming up Here is our guest. Switched out the hard hat to the soft tat. That's made in china. Dammit yeah boy. Popeye is He's a talker. I can't get a word in edgewise for nissan. The show so sure. You don't want to do the ride with us now. You don't want to do the right for those of you. That are new to the show. The wife did a couple of crashes on her bike when we were When we were riding we we were riding a lot and one saturday we were out riding on tree-lined boulevard is a boulevard treeline. Whatever it's called. And i was ahead of you. Know 'cause i'm a fast writer and so i was a little bit ahead of our which i wish i wasn't and there was. There was a mini van. That actually broke down in the by a gas in the bike lane. And yeah they read outta gas corner. I've warned her. I had won her many many times before that. She has to ride with her head up because she thinks that she's in the bike lane. Everything is fine while she wasn't riding with her head up because she knows tri-bars and i looked down all the time you're not and so are what happened was she smashed her face into the back of the mini van and the helmet. Pretty much saved her life now. I pretty much. We're almost to the end of tree. Line which connects to colonial. And i was turning around and i hear cars beeping at me like they're trying to tell me something you can see. Something's going on and i was like. Oh crab crab cry. And then i see that. She didn't make it around the mini van. She's laying on the ground. There's blood everywhere this getting with everywhere and so now. I'm outraged. I go after the drive vehicle. Now we're gonna make this about you. Well i okay you. She turned out to be fine..
Beach Talk Radio
"popeye" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"Because i'm an expert at the water now much more than my wife and i saw you riding the bike on the sidewalk there huffing and puffing and you're on your way back to the beach while it's hot out there right. How do you stay hydrated on the bike. You know what. I can get about twenty miles on a twenty ounce bottle of orange juice in the morning. Wildlife a bottle of water with me on the ride so the big question that everybody wants to know they've been texting and emailing me beforehand question for you. So are you vaccinated. No i'm just kidding. They weren't asking that. But i don't have to answer that. But why did you answer that. I don't i don't mind answer. Why are you not vaccinating vaccine. Okay because there's no there's no really research on I've shared some videos with them very interesting research. Yeah and Facebook keeps blocking them. But a gladys share it with you and show you what there's immunologist has to save accident popeye palooza. I'm not really to talk about vaccine. Okay so tell us you'll save unhealthy potpie palooza. Popeye palooza making a comeback. We got shut down by kobe by the corona virus. But we have in our tenure history. We've raised forty thousand dollars for the fort. Myers beach used sports for must be sack club before martin beach little league which also covers the girls softball league in t. ball of course and we. I have nothing but the most heartfelt gratitude appreciation for the mermaid and batteries for getting us started. They checked us off started out of my driveway. Then we moved into the mermaid. But we're really put us on the map lou lucavica. Tim miller the beach pub beach bar. What a six year history run we had there. They put us on the map. They made popeye pluto. One of the premier events fort myers beach. And when is it exactly. We're going to have popeye palooza. Interestingly on october thirtieth this year. And there's a special reason coming up for that. I'm going to tell you tell them. Don't tell us i'm gonna tell you. So what can people expect pop by palooza. Whoa i give away any other credit social software enjoying the sponsorship of shuckers in the cottage bar or a giants great. He's kinda doing so location. Brian nagle the general manager is the impetus of the turnaround. Shuckers got done a fantastic job in that restaurant app to tell you and i am very excited about partnering with him. Roxanne jakarta's crate. There's there's going to be helping us running the show in the cottage. It's going to be a three tiered events this year. It's gonna be interesting by the way. It has my new sunglass. I finally found a pair of wrap around that you can wear over your glasses. That don't look like you just had cataract surgery. I won't take them off now. Because i'm half blind. Okay all right so three to kind of go backwards here on. We're gonna separate up the main event a little bit and fancy up a little bit in the evening. There's going to be a sit-down donation per plate dinner in shuckers and auction. Why are finer auction on the inside and evening.
Best of The Steve Harvey Morning Show
"popeye" Discussed on Best of The Steve Harvey Morning Show
"Didn't immediately make you stop and pay attention now. I'm a classic flavor kinda girl. So i love the belgian chocolate. But if you're feeling a little more adventurous than you choices you might try the pumpkin pie. Gelato layers and don't worry there dairy free options to like the strawberry hibiscus are beto. You just really can't go wrong with the gelato made from scratch. So when you're making your grocery list this week don't forget to add some for yourself or someone you love trying to lint gelato and raise the jor okay guys so popeye's they have new chicken. Nuggets are coming out first sandwich craze and now they got chicken nuggets. What you guys think. Ready low sandwich data. No no no. No who had sandwich i have. I had to sandwich. It was delicious. It's delicious which is worth to four hours. I stood in line or half a workday. I don't have hours but no food. That good yeah. The chicken sandwich in new orleans stephen with him for yes that papa on wall street canal street off the chain soon as soon as essence festivals. All right there will thirty at night while here we go. Everybody walked to that one too. They don't even get in the car. I love it. I write nephew. Let's go let's popeye's baby. You can't beat the flavor in fact when you in there get you some dirty rice and aside at grape import gravy ahmed rice. I promise you you're going to say oh. Just dance buddha cups but a rice. That's all the cups aimed big enough. That's all right. We gotta go. We'll be back at thirty three apps. You're listening to steve harvey morning show. Switching to gyco.
Rob Has a Podcast
"popeye" Discussed on Rob Has a Podcast
"Complains endlessly about what they got. No so this is what the person as long as the i don't know meal is designed for even the pickiest person to eat but still be acceptable for someone who likes a little bit of food. Then you're like if it's if it's kind of like some type of chicken strips fries like everybody's on that you know that it's a stupid because it's pop is the the popeye's chicken sandwich they don't mix it up. It's like like you're at popeye's you don't know what to get like. Hey you idiot. Just get the popeye's chicken sandwich at popeye's yeah. I feel like they could have more fun with this if it was you. Pay three ninety nine and then you push by news spins like a wheel like jeopardy or wheel of fortune wheels. Just which then. All on this wheeler the the highest pop most popular items. You know the the high highest purchase items and it lands on one of those. Because you probably can't go wrong with what the majority are giving. Yeah yeah that is true. I do like that idea. Trending right but i like it. I like i like it better. Where it's like. Okay here you go. And then it's like it's one of the options is lar- you spin it. One of the options is just large fries and a water. One of the options is just a coq. One of the options is a full meal. You know that number one meal on the day. There's a lot of ways to do this kind of scary too when you order. I don't know meal because they'll probably give you is in. This is what happens in nice restaurants the most expensive thing on the menu. Well you've ordered with some lobster on the side. Popeye did that. Yes we do it. Seventy five dollars. Catch the fish right. Now it's two hundred dollars. We got that in..
Bloomberg Surveillance
Burger King to Enter Chicken Sandwich Wars With the Ch'King
"See another summer of chicken sandwich wars? Maybe Burger King will introduce its new breaded chicken sandwich called the Checking on June 3rd. The Burger chain says it worked on the recipe for two years. It started right after sister chain Popeye's rolled out the sandwich that ignited the frenzy in the summer of 2019.
Donna and Steve
New 'Stranger Things' Teaser Is Eleven-Out-of-Ten Creepy
"I believe we have A P, sir. A teaser for over this stranger things. I like it a lot to you because I like the kids. Are they going to be adults? By the time we see them? They're 40 years old. When was the last time that we had stranger thing two years ago. Then that there's so many questions I have with this. All right, you guys, I'm ready to go on here. Stranger things and then After what? Felt like an eternity of waiting, my lady? No. Here we go. Ladies. No. Here we go. They gave me two of them in the article. I think we have the correct one right here. Yeah. Hey, the clock is on three. It's crawling around on the floor. Playing Klink. Oh, and chest. I don't like that. Educate ball. Mm. Are some spikes really like it here, like in a mental hospital and subject. I'm sorry. His little kids crawling around in a cold room. The creepy guy walking. We just see his back. Good morning, Children. Good morning, Popeye. How are you today? Good. Glad to hear you because today I have something very special planned for you when the doors has a number 11 on it. Mm hmm. You're listening. Oh, that's where she came from. Cool. Yes, quick. I also remember last year we got to go last year. They did after this using a stranger things. From Russia with love, and it was this Russian hillside, snow covered. They're all working on a train track. And then you realize that what's his face? Hopper? Yep. Is there that's good? That's good. Be good. I don't think that I will. I will figure it out. This is his
Give It To The People LIVE
"popeye" Discussed on Give It To The People LIVE
"Good morning good afternoon. Good evening when you're tuned in your with lady business and give it to the people radio where you're gonna get enlighten enhanced. Empowered and enriched. Make sure that you always give it to the people all right so we are back and i like to do this thing that i like to call power quarter hour. I did it a couple years ago. And i would do it every night at eight o'clock and just kinda give you some information and it will be usually about a business topic. Something that's happening something that you can use immediately and today i wanna take my power quarter hour and i want to use it to talk about social responsibility so this is the biggest thing that's happening right now. Popeye's chicken and i'm not here to necessarily give praise the popeye's chicken. Their marketing strategy is actually very amazing because they have gotten us to give them literally millions of dollars in advertisement literally. Millions of dollars in free advertisement I'm just going to be honest. i'm guilty. That first time i saw everybody talking about it and i was like well. Let me check out this chicken right. So i checked out the chicken first time. It was really good and i was like okay. Then they ran out of the chicken. Which i think was kinda like a planned obsolescence kind of thing where they were like okay. Well you know we don't have anymore chickens so it's coming back around again. They did not think about how much as far as the i guess everything. That just really happened that they were going to sell out now. I think that they might have done that in the background and sold out on purpose. They might not have thought that they were going to sell out as quickly but they did. Okay so then they tell you we're coming back and of course guess. What just happened the comeback. Right before thanksgiving now. My issue is not the chicken sandwich. My issue is not the marketing my issue is not even us decided that we wanted to tell people that we liked the product. Because i think that that's what we should do as people who like product right so for me. I'm always quick to say. Well i like this or this businesses greater. You should go here. I had a great meal. I think that that's an important thing however the issue that i have is with social responsibilities so since they have relaunched this chicken sandwich there has been a one man that has been murdered. Okay the have to death over chicken sandwich. There has also been a woman who well. Let's just say like this. I'm going to be blunt. Because i can be right the word nigger with the er on the end has been used in several instances with people that are not of color against the people that are making these chicken sandwiches and there have been so many acts of violence as a result of it. Now i think that people need to understand that there is a responsibility that comes along with the marketing. The packaging and everything. Popeye's cannot be completely responsible for other people's racism and blatant disregard for just general human necessity of respects. They can't be responsible for that but what they can be held responsible for is the fact that they see these things are happening and they're just worried about the fact that lines are happening. The lines are there. people are still getting. These chicken sounds sandwiches. People are still coming in and spending money and the shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank so at first it seemed a little harsh when people were saying well black people..
WBZ Midday News
McDonald's will launch 3 chicken sandwiches next month as it doubles down on chicken
"In the fast food business. Much of the buzz past couple of years of centered on sizzling hot demand for the Popeye's chicken sandwich, which has challenged the almost religious devotion of some to Chick fil A Apparently, McDonald's is tired of being left out of all that Brody supports. Late next month, Mickey D's will unveil three versions of the new chicken sandwich with crispy white meat, chicken and crinkle cut pickles on a potato roll.
Jason and Alexis
McDonald's to launch its fried chicken sandwich in the U.S. next year
"Sandwiches coming Intel. McDonald's is gearing up to release a new chicken sandwich early next year to compete against Popeye's chicken fillet who've seen Chicken sandwich sales grow, so they're kind of late in the game with this, But they're new Chicken sandwich is gonna have a fried chicken fillet on a potato roll topped with butter and pickles. So Oh, okay. Yeah, very similar. Yeah, so the deluxe version is going to have lettuce, tomato and mayo. And then they're also did you hear about the MiG plant burger? It's like an impossible burger. Only blessing. Yeah.
The Mason Minute
War Rages On (MM #3520)
"The minute with kevin mason. The election may be over but a war rages on and no i'm not talking about politics. A mocking republicans and democrats. I'm talking about chicken sandwiches. I joke but i kind of playing into this just because of what's going on in our world right now but a chicken sandwich war continues and we talked about it. Was it last year last summer even a year ago summer. I don't even remember when popeye's brought in this brand new chicken sandwich that they debuted. I finally had one about a month or two ago and it was good. I don't know what all the hubbub was about now grant. I love chicken sandwiches. I have no problem with that but without sitting down with two different chicken sandwiches at a time. I couldn't be and tell you which one was witching which is better and why. But the regional chain zach's b.'s. Upped the ante with their new greatest chicken sandwich of all time. Whatever they're calling it. But not only that. Mcdonald's is going to have a new crispy chicken sandwich come the first of the year in two thousand and twenty one because they want to amplify up the chicken sandwich war. Am i missing something here. Some are good and some are bad in all honesty. It all depends on. Who's behind the grill. I wonder what's going on.
The Mason Minute
War Rages On (MM #3520)
"The minute with kevin mason. The election may be over but a war rages on and no i'm not talking about politics. A mocking republicans and democrats. I'm talking about chicken sandwiches. I joke but i kind of playing into this just because of what's going on in our world right now but a chicken sandwich war continues and we talked about it. Was it last year last summer even a year ago summer. I don't even remember when popeye's brought in this brand new chicken sandwich that they debuted. I finally had one about a month or two ago and it was good. I don't know what all the hubbub was about now grant. I love chicken sandwiches. I have no problem with that but without sitting down with two different chicken sandwiches at a time. I couldn't be and tell you which one was witching which is better and why. But the regional chain zach's b.'s. Upped the ante with their new greatest chicken sandwich of all time. Whatever they're calling it. But not only that. Mcdonald's is going to have a new crispy chicken sandwich come the first of the year in two thousand and twenty one because they want to amplify up the chicken sandwich war. Am i missing something here. Some are good and some are bad in all honesty. It all depends on. Who's behind the grill. I wonder what's going on.
The Mason Minute
War Rages On (MM #3520)
"The minute with kevin mason. The election may be over but a war rages on and no i'm not talking about politics. A mocking republicans and democrats. I'm talking about chicken sandwiches. I joke but i kind of playing into this just because of what's going on in our world right now but a chicken sandwich war continues and we talked about it. Was it last year last summer even a year ago summer. I don't even remember when popeye's brought in this brand new chicken sandwich that they debuted. I finally had one about a month or two ago and it was good. I don't know what all the hubbub was about now grant. I love chicken sandwiches. I have no problem with that but without sitting down with two different chicken sandwiches at a time. I couldn't be and tell you which one was witching which is better and why. But the regional chain zach's b.'s. Upped the ante with their new greatest chicken sandwich of all time. Whatever they're calling it. But not only that. Mcdonald's is going to have a new crispy chicken sandwich come the first of the year in two thousand and twenty one because they want to amplify up the chicken sandwich war. Am i missing something here. Some are good and some are bad in all honesty. It all depends on. Who's behind the grill. I wonder what's going on.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Protest at Popeyes After Violent Struggle Between Delivery Driver, Security Guard in Maryland, Washington DC Area
"Surrounded a Popeyes restaurant in Capitol Heights. That's where this past Saturday night, a 24 year old woman says she was assaulted hit with Mace by security guard working there. Stephanie Samuels, using the words violated embarrassed and disrespected. To describe how she feels about her treatment by the guard, identified by our news partners and NBC for as Darryl Posten, last report posted has not been charged with the other one blinded, flooded with my kids waiting for me. No much after experience that protesters, including Samuels picketed the restaurant. Samuel says she called 911 in Prince George's County Police responded, saying she was driving for uber. It's picking up on order when she exchanged words with the security officer who wanted her to leave through a different door. Prince George's county police say they're investigating. There is smart phone video, and Popeye says that has no tolerance for violence.
Bon Appetit Foodcast
JJ Johnson, Louis Hunter, and the State of the States
"JJ, welcome back to the WHO guest our you today. I'm I'm okay. How are you doing all? A little angry at the world. Yeah, happy to have a business and. In been being able to stay open through cove in nineteen, so yeah, the last time you and I saw each other was was march sixth at on Air Fest a podcast festival in Brooklyn. And a week later I feel like the entire world turned upside down. We were hanging out there and everything seemed like it was you know we were talking about vacation where we'll go and things getting cancelled and then. became a real situation for US era in America where. People were getting infected at a super high superhero now people dying hostels, getting overwhelmed and a true a shelter in place. I. Think the first time that. People that were used to. A moving freely had to adjust. We've never had to be told to do something bad extreme. There was hard for a lot of people. and. Let let's talk to you guys as a restaurant providing food for you community up in Harlem to. About today is the last ten weeks. You've weathered as a restaurant owner. And in the past week with the uprisings around the country in the wake of the killings of George Floyd. And Brianna Taylor and I'm an arbitrary You know as a black restaurant owner and a black man. What this past week has been like for you but I guess let's just start off with cove in nineteen. And did you guys stay open entire time to close forbid? How did you manage those waters? I'm not a person that suffers from anxiety. I taught that. There's going to be hard times in life, and you will figure it out in the storage room where I'm sitting with you during this podcast. I came here. Lock myself in this room and I started to think like Oh my God this business this concept. This vision that we. have been developing for years. Mike Come 'til Hall because I only have dismounted cash in the bank to survive. If I close my doors, I will not be able to open two reasons is the money will run out most people you close your doors. You don't need to pay for sale sach rent. All these things nothing stops in to filter brand was a new brand of community that people were just starting to get to know. so I decided not to close and I would say. The one of the major factors was our supervisor Kierra said to me, you know. I rented a room. I don't have a large frigerator. I can't horde groceries. I need to be able to eat somewhere and there's a lot of people in this community that can't go to a grocery store and just stack up. We need to figure out how to stay open and what we were able to accomplish in the last ten weeks, covert or eleven, weeks or covert, and in Kobe's not over, but like the heart of Kobe. We've touched a community very differently than it would've taken me five years two years to do people that eat in this restaurant now and filtered are not the same people that were eating this restaurant cove it that that customer laugh that customers at home I used to make these these funny jokes and say. Popeye's closes. That's our. You know. We are going to be good. Because people are gonNA, be looking for food pop I started closing four o'clock people were coming into the restaurant, saying hey, man, I pass by this place. I have fifteen. My last fifteen dollars I was going to go to Popeye's. What can I get here? Do you have crispy chicken? And we were converting people one by one, but then also people started to see what we were doing. We started to feed first responders right from. Frontline workers right from the jump. Due to the fact that my wife telling me nurses and doctors weren't thinking about food, and they were hungry the day, so we adopted all of the hospitals and Upper Manhattan and the Bronx to date. We've done fifty thousand meals out of field trip. and. That's our making. People realize that they can trust us that they knew who we were. What we stood for what we could become, and that this small restaurant that was new will right now. We're about ten months old. That was new would be here with us. Through the darkest times to make sure that we had some food or would I call it? Was this Obama hope in the community? Community that those people that were actually going to work and people that were unemployed say one day. I'll be back at work. One day I'll be getting back to receive a paycheck or I'm gonNA. Spend my money because I know these people working here and they live around me in. They're my peers. Some GonNa make sure that they have a paycheck so that they can support themselves and their
True Mysteries of the Pacific Northwest
Cucuy
"Welcome to kiss Miss Mystery. Your host kid crumb today the spirit of Kuku. You might have heard of the wall city in Mexico Corner. Baca asked twenty residents of this wall city. Why the walls and you'll get twenty different answers. Mostly it seems. A consensus is that they keep out bandits and drug lords in the community surrounding the walled city. Crime was running rampant. Children were safe ninety. Were killed by drive by shootings other simply vanished off the streets. Local law enforcement was in the pocket of the local drug dealers. Some residents sudden Asir to the church but most simply locked their doors and kept children indoors than does were afraid to venture out and soon it was appeared. The local economy was collapsing. Many of the elders of the community built helpless. Spoke out about the Kukui. A spirit that arrived with the Spanish censors before but unlike the Spanish that killed and pillage the cocoon came to do good. It was a priest that arrived with. Cortez and fifteen nineteen. I mentioned a false God like spirit called Kukui. There was plaguing the various Spanish camps. For three hundred years of Spanish rule over the central regions of MESOAMERICA kacoos present ravaged the caps with fever and dysentery. It was in the early nineteenth century after the Spanish. American wars and the secession of most Spanish territories details of a strange spirit cuckoo that has so affected early Spanish conquistadors that they were often defeated at least temporarily by the indigenous tribes they encountered but does the elders passed away generation after generation. The story of Kukui became a folk tale often told the children to scare them into be good otherwise the Kukui take them away but by nineteen fifty. The community around the walled city was confronted by so much random crime and violence that only older families those that have made their home against the wall had lived there for generations remained at local gatherings. The elders talked about Kukudji that? Maybe it was time to call up the spirit but they were always laughed at their folktales dismiss. When the aging mayor realized at the end of his beloved community was in sight he called a special gathering of the elders and together they prayed and sang songs calling on the spirit of cocoon. Within days of the meeting of the elders crime left the community and also left a lot of bodies now flash forward to the hundreds of refugees being held at the US Mexican border several reporters from ABC NBC. Cbs visited the cage paraded families. It was a famous. Cbs reporter Luke made her way to the heart of the refugees and spoke to a mother who expressed a sense of calm explaining in broken English. That could Kui had been summoned. Not sure what she had heard. What was that aspect of? Her conversation was removed from the interview. It was leaked to the press just ten days after that interview that many of the guards come down with a virus of course it was attributed to illness. Popeye refugees or was it
Kingpins
Kingpins Daily: Jhon Jairo Velasquez
"Today's quote is from Hitman. John Jairo Popeye Velazquez of the medicine drug cartel the less was Pablo Escobar's right hand. Man throughout the s until his arrest in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine upon his release. Velazquez started a new life. Leveraging his notoriety into a Popular Channel Book Deals and film roles in the two thousand seventeen interview. Velazquez defended his past life as a criminal saying with the politicians. We have in Columbia. Being abandoned is an honor. Velazquez delivered this incisive quote. Only a few years ago but the government corruption. He alludes to has a very long history one that is deeply entwined with the rise of the cartels in the Mid Nineteen Ninety s Columbia's then presidential candidate a Nesto. Some pair was accused of accepting six million dollars from a drug cartel though. Some pet narrowly won election and survive to impeachment proceedings. These signaled the corruption had reached the very highest levels of the Colombian government. It didn't end there in the two thousand six para political scandal. Five congressmen were arrested for collaborating with a paramilitary group that was responsible for killing thousands of Colombians civilians and as recently as two thousand eleven. Thirteen members of Columbia's Tax Authority were arrested for embezzling millions of dollars from the country's taxpayers. Over the US. This level of rampant corruption has undermined public faith in the Colombian government and election process within this context. One can see how Velazquez mine ocoee that compared to these politicians being abandoned is an honor however it must be pointed out that Popeye Alaska's was much more than just a bandit. He was a ruthless and prolific assassin. Beliefs Kaz began working for notorious drug lord. Pablo Escobar at the tender age of seventeen before joining the cartel. He had tried out the navy where he got the nickname Popeye for his strength and prominent jaw but Velazquez quickly left the service in search of a more thrilling line of work becoming Pablo. Escobar's enforcer was much more in line. With what Young Velasquez was looking for. He took to the bloody work with. Gusto over the course of his criminal career Velazquez claim to have personally murdered more than three hundred people as well as participating in the killings of thousands more in the midst of escalating violence Velazquez masterminded the deployment of upwards of two hundred car bombs against rival druglords and government officials and in Nineteen eighty-nine ve Alaska's targeted a Colombian presidential candidate by planting a suitcase bomb on a plane. Which killed all one hundred seven people aboard as well as three more on the ground he later described this mass murderer as a work of art. Even rampant government corruption begins to Pale in comparison to the level of Violence Velazquez. Took pleasure in meeting out. Presumably Popeye would have happily continued on as a hitman indefinitely but his exploits eventually caught up with him. In nineteen eighty. Nine Velasquez was sentenced to thirty years in prison for drug terrorism and the murder of a Colombian presidential candidate. He only served twenty two years before his release in two thousand fourteen with prison behind him. Velazquez publicly renounced his old ways and embarked on a new career as a kind of pundit and public figure he launched a youtube channel called Popeye Arab Pentito or remorseful Popeye in which he held court on various political issues affecting Columbia. The channel quickly racked up more than one point two million subscribers and Alaska's parlayed the online popularity into to book deals and a movie about his life which he directed and starred in Popeye also gave private tours of medicine highlighting the sites of cartel escapades though. Velazquez claimed to repent for his sins often and loudly. There is some evidence to suggest that his apology tour was more about attention and notoriety ben contrition in some videos. Popeye posted. He visited the graves of people he murdered and described in vivid detail. Exactly how he killed them. Perhaps as a way to relive his glory days also Velazquez reacted poorly when people didn't accept his apology for example when the son of a man who died in that plane bombing refused to forgive him. Popeye called him a bad man with an evil heart ultimately. There's no way to know pies true motivations but whatever Velasquez was he could certainly turn of phrase for example. Popeye once said it is better to die of a bullet than of a disease in bed. Ironically in February twenty twenty Alaska's passed away at age fifty seven from stomach cancer. It seems death is the great
Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis
Houston: Deputy, off-duty HPD commander shoot suspect near Popeyes restaurant in Spring, officials say
"Well an officer involved shooting outside of a Popeye's restaurant in spring this afternoon it happened as deputies change still a fleeing suspect on foot there are holes words then cypress would use the police chief art Acevedo says an off duty age pretty commander was at a nearby gem of the suspect ran inside our our commander with the deputies yeah the end of the suspect the suspect actually turned on the on the cost of one of the with a knife the showers so the suspect hospitalized but expected to survive the deputy constable being treated for a wrist injury suffered winning fell during the chase
MarketFoolery
Chicken War Spurs Popeyes Sales
"Let's start with the restaurant. Industry and in particular restaurant brands international which is the decidedly unsexy name of the parent company of Burger King. Popeye's and Tim Hortons Fortensky fourth quarter profits and revenue for restaurant brands slightly higher than expected and all of the credit one hundred percent of the credit. Go to Popeye's yeah. There's no question because when we talk about same store sales and I think it was either on this show on Motley fool money last week we're talking about AAA which put up same store sales growth of thirteen percent and I said what most restaurants would kill for that. Can I interest you in same. Aim store sales growth of thirty eight percent. Yeah thirty eight percent that looks comical like when you look at the chart as you and I both did this morning owning. It looks ridiculous but now we know what that spicy chicken sandwiches worth well and if if you know if you listen to Ron and roses. Scathing adding scathing review it was not a good review. You wonder how many people are going to actually give that sandwich. Try Not I know I'm not I haven't tried it yet and I don't know that I actually will part of that is just because I'm probably too lazy in an overly like eating a lot of fast food but I do feel like this For for restaurant brains. This really does feel like they're McDonald's breakfast moment. I mean it was a little bit less I think it was a little bit less expected. I mean they they certainly planned this sandwich obviously I don't know that they even really expected the results that they're getting but you you take what you can get in this line of work because it's not always easy to come across and I think the big question for Restaurant Brands is candy. Sustain it because I mean yes they are diversified and then. They have have Popeye's in Tim. Hortons in Burger King. But this really is. I mean the the the growth is coming from this chicken sandwich and so the question is is is that sustainable and and we don't know that I mean this it's kind of like that greater investing lesson and no pun intended. But you're not looking to put all of your eggs in one basket in this case. You don't WanNa put all of your chicken sandwiches in one basket in. I think when you look at restaurant brands I mean. This really is a Burger King. Business First and foremost I mean Burger. King is responsible for close to seventy percents companies. Total revenue in Popeye's is actually the smallest revenue generator of the three but that said The laggard really his. Is Tim. Hortons and that to me is the bigger question because I. I don't have any doubt that they can continue to perform well with Popeye's even if the chicken sandwich doesn't bring this explosive growth going forward and it probably won't but it it'll probably do pretty well. It's been received well because a lot of people think it's really good The question for MEES. What are they going to do with Tim? Hortons because Tim Hortons is really. This is kind of like the Pizza Hut. This is like the conversation we had about yum brands where wear it was yet another quarter of KFC and Taco bell are doing just fine. Thank you very much and Pizza Hut. Just I'm almost speechless because I'm genuinely surprised that when Pizza Hut was handed the opportunity that they were of Papa. John's and all of the controversy around John Schnatter in the NFL deal and the NFL deal. They still can't make that concept concept work no. I think you probably could make the argument this point. Now that you know Tim Horton's could prep for a spin off in pizza. Hut could prep for a spin off. You put those two together you know what their ticker would be Chris L. A. G. Because those two together will lag the market for quarters in years to come in. I don't know why that is on the pizza. Hut Pizzas one of those things. I mean domino's recognized a while back. Hey listen we're not. We're not selling a lot of stuff because apparently our food in that great. So let's make good food in and for whatever reason Tim Hortons doesn't quite resonating as well and maybe it is. Maybe it is a geography thing. It's it's certainly not a brand that I think has much opportunity opportunity south of the border. Right I mean when when you bring that thing into the United States just don't think it's GonNa do What it could possibly do in Canada but the calms of minus four point point three percent? Now we'll say management attributed some of that to their rewards program. They're essentially investing a lot in this rewards program to stoke traffic bring people back in in and I appreciate that that makes sense. We see a lot of these restaurants. Do it and and starbucks I think is one of the companies out there who really wrote wrote the book on how to do it. Well a Tim Hortons. Maybe these are. Just some of the lumps that come with investing in that a but I it's it's taking a little a bit of a hit in the short run for. Hopefully it'll more long term sustainability that remains to be seen whether it's really gonNA work out. I'm not that optimistic. Whereas I feel like with Burger working at Popeye's there is a more universal geographical reach where people people are going to probably flocked to those brands a little bit more consistently So for me. Burger King and Popeye's strength their. Tim Hortons a lot of questions. They're going to continue to make investments the rewards program but I mean this is a company that has some big aspirations with somewhere in the neighborhood. Twenty th at twenty seven thousand total restaurants. Today they're aim is is for forty thousand restaurants in the next eight to ten years in so you got to believe that most of that is going to come on the Burger King Popeye's side and and and it doesn't We very well may see them make another acquisition. Bring another brand under their umbrella so to speak that remains to be seen but yeah I mean for all of the success. That Popeye's has had burger king. I get it Tim Hortons is the real big question mark and I don't know what they do to fix that to to go go back to something you said earlier regarding Ken. Popeye sustain this. No no anyone. Who's looking at this thinking boy? Can they do this every quarter no there. You'd you'd like to see maybe not thirty percent growth but you'd like to see given the comstock. They had a year ago. Then yeah you'd like to see some double double digit growth. But when we get to twelve months from now honestly if they can do. Single low single digit growth off of thirty eight percent. COP bumped than fantastic. I think the other restaurant that has to be looking very closely at this. Is McDonald's and Chris Kempinski. Who's been CEO for? Maybe almost three months. Now it's going to be interesting to see where they go with their chicken chicken sandwich and what they're able to do with well we. We have gotten some boots on the ground research on that already and apparently they've got some work to do on that on that front. I mean that's a really competitive space. I mean who would have figured we'd be sitting here just shining such a light on the chicken sandwich. I mean this really has become front and Center for the Quick Quick Service Restaurant Industry. Hasn't I mean but you know the the business opportunity for McDonald's and everyone else who's not chick-fil-a is the chick-fil-a is closed on Sundays Sundays. Yeah Yeah you can get just you know. You don't need to get all of their business. You just need to get some of their biggest need some of it and and and again I think. Go to your point about the chicken sandwich with Popeye's no it's not sustainable but it seems to be a good product wrong grosses reviews. Be Damned. I I do think that it would be really neat to see them. Come up with something like that. For the Burger. King side of the business that would be extremely meaningful because again a- as great of a success as the chicken sandwich with Popeye's has been it's still the smallest part of the business in that has to be taken into consideration ration-. This is a burger king story first and foremost so I bet you management is in a room somewhere trying to figure out. How do we capture the lightning in a bottle? Four Burger King and maybe they thought the impossible opera had that Had that potential doesn't seem like it's Gonna I mean and I don't know what it is but it does seem like no matter what it's going to revolve around chicken in some way shape or form.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Chicken sandwich sales drive 34% same-store sales growth at Popeye's
"The appetite for fast food fried chicken sandwiches is not winning Popeyes Louisiana kitchen reports fourth quarter sales that were up thirty four percent from a year ago Popeyes put its chicken sandwich on the menu in August but it's sold out it re introduced its chicken sandwich in
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show
Popeyes' New Uniforms Look Like Beyonce's New Adidas Line... Tasty Or Tacky?
"And we gotta give it up for Popeye's in their genius marketing. I don't know if you guys saw this but beyonce as ivy park line came out and we're killers her what her I've park line. It's burgundy white and orange. It's the same colors as the Popeye's uniform so Popeye's created their own in clothing line and they are selling their uniforms as merch. It's actually called that. Look from Popeye's it dropped yesterday and they say it's flying so lost just like the Brigands Korea like beyond a needs to be there a stake in the company or like sewing has enough beyond. They came out with it. After Popeye's Popeye's has had this forever that new dress purple dress. That looks beyond. Say I love my Popeye's