Omnivore - Popeyes Report: Annoying customers, life-saving diners, aphrodisiacs

Popeyes: It’s more than just a chicken restaurant

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Need a job? Popeyes on Boulevard is hiring. The requirements: You must love chicken and love making people smile.

Say what? Tuesday, I made my first visit to Popeyes in several months. Regular readers may remember my frequent reports on the incredibly bad service there. Eventually, the company fixed that.

But I don’t think the staff could do anything to make many customers smile. It would be more appropriate, at least at the Boulevard location, to say that “you must love avoiding throwing chicken in people’s faces.” Tuesday night, there were two people in line in front of me. They seriously took 15 minutes to place their orders, which they changed repeatedly: