KFC is open whohohoooo

LowOdour

drove past there on my lunch break...looked like drive thru was mad busy! Last thing i want to do on my lunch hour is spend 40 minutes queueing, 10 minutes eating and 10 minutes getting back.

majiktripp

Went at 2pm there, drive through was fast and fairly efficient, no delays really. Was no better or worse than any other KFC I've been too. The novelty will wear off eventually just like Burger King.

Fozzie Bear

catmelodian wrote: »

Miserable fat slobs of Galway rejoice.

Miserable, dour, joyless, killjoy, moaning pains in the hole are also rejoicing... yet another thing to complain about. Air show, Bypass, Speed boats and now a big nasty multinational food chain.

Won't somebody think of the children.

catmelodian

I just find it amusing that a take away opening is cause for celebration. A lot of miserable fat slobs about. I'm looking at you Fozzie.

biko

Banned.

rasper

chicken, the most abused animal on the planet, have a look at what happens to it for the few weeks of its painful life before it is put out of its misery so you can have a snack box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJsCAgYB1V4

s_carnage

rasper wrote: »

chicken, the most abused animal on the planet, have a look at what happens to it for the few weeks of its painful life before it is put out of its misery so you can have a snack box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJsCAgYB1V4

Mmmm Snack box...

mikom

rasper wrote: »

chicken, the most abused animal on the planet, have a look at what happens to it for the few weeks of its painful life before it is put out of its misery so you can have a snack box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJsCAgYB1V4

Something else to consider....... Care for chickens.

Fozzie Bear

catmelodian wrote: »

A lot of miserable fat slobs about. I'm looking at you Fozzie.

A miserable fat slob! Moi! How dare you, I'm not miserable...

dmcg90

catmelodian wrote: »

Miserable fat slobs of Galway rejoice.

Hey least it's more jobs for the city, regardless of your opinions on food, other people may like it.

Madame Razz

What time do they close at at night? Himself is on the late flight into Galway and having heard it's opened up, now wants KFC on the way home:rolleyes::p

Robbo

rasper wrote: »

chicken, the most abused animal on the planet, have a look at what happens to it for the few weeks of its painful life before it is put out of its misery so you can have a snack box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJsCAgYB1V4

And here was me labouring under the notion that all the meat I consume died peacefully of old age...

ErnieBert

LowOdour wrote: »

drove past there on my lunch break...looked like drive thru was mad busy! Last thing i want to do on my lunch hour is spend 40 minutes queueing, 10 minutes eating and 10 minutes getting back.

...followed by two hours sitting in the bog






(but at least it would be worth it!)

Steyr

Cathal01 wrote: »

It amazes me how 'small minded" people get when people express their dislike of international food chains opening in Galway.....

Isn't there ****ing enough already. You have the whole lot of them here now, and yes it may get people off the dole etc. but how sustainable is employment in a fast food restaurant? Also what about the other local IRISH food businesses it directly affects? Cafes and restaurants are struggling enough out there as it is without every US food chain arriving in Galway City and offering absolute ****E
Also is it crazy to say that when I was driving around Galway today I thought people looked noticeably fatter. I absolutely mean it. I saw several morbidly obese people...and I mean OBESE. Merely an observation! Have the Yanks landed for the summer already?

Well aint you quite the American basher.......:rolleyes: Also while i wouldnt go out of my way to go to KFC i do believe what you say about the Cafe's is utterly wrong, Cafe's in Ireland in general are a rip off mad prices for a cup of tea/coffee whatever.

Redhairedguy

Gotta say I'm overjoyed to have KFC here in Galway. I used to drive to Athlone once a month to get some. (Judge not, lest ye be judged!:p)

The chicken there is much better quality than the shíte you'd get at most of the other fast food restaurants. I've been in twice since it opened yesterday, and each time the chicken was fresh and well prepared.

Also, what harm that a new business has opened? The hemp-wearing flower children can bleat about capitalism and American dominance of the market all they want. Truth be told this has been looked forward to for a long time. It's a different (I use that term loosely) food experience in a city that is noted for it's diversity. Maybe if more Irish cafes and restaurants produced some finger-lickin-chicken-goodness, people might be more inclined to eat there. Until then however, I'm flying the stars and stripes as far as I'm concerned.

KFC is not going anywhere, it's got a prime location; just off the motorway, beside a large hotel and larger shopping complex and just a spear's throw away from huge residential estates.

I thoroughly embrace KFC with open arms. Welcome to Galway, Colonel. <salutes>

dr.bollocko

Was jammers today. Drove on home instead. Will get there next week maybe.

biko

Hopefully this'll attract the ricers away from McD and Headford road.

TerrorFirmer

Was there for the opening. Anyone ever seen Zulu Dawn?

gaillimhabu

It's making a balls of the traffic anyhow

dloob

Went past it this evening and it was packed, big queue of cars for the drive through, getting in the way of cars going into the shopping centre and also packed inside.

Cathal01

Steyr wrote: »

Well aint you quite the American basher.......:rolleyes: Also while i wouldnt go out of my way to go to KFC i do believe what you say about the Cafe's is utterly wrong, Cafe's in Ireland in general are a rip off mad prices for a cup of tea/coffee whatever.

I agree with you....But it works both ways. At eg. KFC you're getting cheap food because it is absolute and utter rubbish. I do agree though that cafe's are overpriced...But I would rather give them my money than some huge corporation that exploit farmers, animals and their customers.

Anyways, that's just my general view of the place. I had KFC before in Letterkenny and it was rank.....How they got planning in Briarhill is beyond me..I live across the road and coming out of Dunnes there is bad enough. They should have a side entrance from Doughiska side....

kippy

Right, as mentioned traffic was a JOKE at that roundabout at around 6:15 this evening. Traffic for the drive thru backed up right up ONTO the roundabout blocking traffic out of parkmore and roundabout traffic in general.

WHO THE **** GIVES THE PLANNING AND DESIGNS THE JUNCTIONS FOR THESE DEVELOPMENTS. I mean its obviously not just one person, there must be a a few people involved. They must all be idiots.

Krieg

Yeah traffic has definitely kicked up a notch.



I'm hoping this is another case of when burger king came here

"Oh brilliant BK is here!"
1 week later
"meh.."

ScumLord

Getting out of the drive through is dam near impossible.

Elevator

queues 13/14 people deep over 6 tills, cars around the building and out on to the road for dive thru, open air part n all if ya fancy, coolest kfc I've ever been in,

can't wait to go again nyom nyom nyom :P

Hulk Hands

Cathal01 wrote: »

It amazes me how 'small minded" people get when people express their dislike of international food chains opening in Galway.....

Isn't there ****ing enough already. You have the whole lot of them here now, and yes it may get people off the dole etc. but how sustainable is employment in a fast food restaurant? Also what about the other local IRISH food businesses it directly affects? Cafes and restaurants are struggling enough out there as it is without every US food chain arriving in Galway City and offering absolute ****E in the name of the food very VERY inexpensively. Yes, this to you may be a great "deal" but it's not. They make a huge mark up as there is **** all chicken in it at all and mostly everything else is synthetic.
I say this as an observer. I am not involved in the food industry at all! I just believe in natural food.....
Also is it crazy to say that when I was driving around Galway today I thought people looked noticeably fatter. I absolutely mean it. I saw several morbidly obese people...and I mean OBESE. Merely an observation! Have the Yanks landed for the summer already?

Well whats the alternative? Go give our business to the vastly overpriced cafes and restuarants which still charge huge prices in recessionary period?

Or the other option: go to the shop and buy ingrediants (time and effort) and go home and cook (time, effort, boring and to a young male-difficult). I would rather spend my limited free time training and socialising. Kfc and the like offer a cheap and quick alternative which is very handy occasionally.

As regards offering ***te, well maybe you are ordering the wrong thing. I personally find a fillet meal every bit as tasty as a steak in some restuarants.

milehip1

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Was there for the opening. Anyone ever seen Zulu Dawn?

Why? was Michael Caine there?

Wexler12

Where is it?

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Cathal01 wrote: »

It amazes me how 'small minded" people get when people express their dislike of international food chains opening in Galway.....

Isn't there ****ing enough already. You have the whole lot of them here now, and yes it may get people off the dole etc. but how sustainable is employment in a fast food restaurant? Also what about the other local IRISH food businesses it directly affects? Cafes and restaurants are struggling enough out there as it is without every US food chain arriving in Galway City and offering absolute ****E in the name of the food very VERY inexpensively. Yes, this to you may be a great "deal" but it's not. They make a huge mark up as there is **** all chicken in it at all and mostly everything else is synthetic.
I say this as an observer. I am not involved in the food industry at all! I just believe in natural food.....
Also is it crazy to say that when I was driving around Galway today I thought people looked noticeably fatter. I absolutely mean it. I saw several morbidly obese people...and I mean OBESE. Merely an observation! Have the Yanks landed for the summer already?

You lie. We don't have a Wendys.

galwayrush

catmelodian wrote: »

Miserable fat slobs of Galway rejoice.

I'm happy, reasonably slim( almost), a Galwegian .:) and very happy with another alternative for a snack, and of course a few more jobs.