Someone duped a fast food restaurant that only sells chicken into buying a 15 year lease on a property where they're legally banned from selling chicken. :data-laughing:
a previous owner had already granted McDonald's the exclusive right to sell chicken products at the shopping center across from the Southlake Mall in Hobart
What a stupid fucking country
it also makes no sense. so literally no restaurant at those shopping centers can serve chicken? THEY ALL SERVE CHICKEN.
What's really insane to me is that I generally think of mall chicken being General Tso's and that's the chicken McDonald's stole their fried chicken recipe from over 50 years ago
Raising Canes can eat my entire ass and hair. Their local location refuses to upgrade their drive-through so they back up 30 cars deep on the city's main avenue. All of a sudden a lane will go from 35mph to a dead stop, right before a major intersection. I've almost rear-ended multiple cars that can't be arsed to go across the street for better tendies. The Starbucks next to it has the same problem and people refuse to drive half a mile in any direction to visit the next one.
Is this in a particular mid-sized college city near a national park, or does this problem just repeat itself across every location in the country?
This is indeed Fort Collins. Someone in r/trueanon also immediately knew where I was referencing when I said "chicken" and "traffic" in the same sentence.
But they put up the little traffic sign reading "congested area ahead"! Problem fixed. Meanwhile whenever I go there I just walk in and get my food in 5 - 10 minutes. Walking out and the car line has barely moved at all. I hate feeling so smug about having discovered parking spaces but I am lol
It's wild the city hasn't shut them down or forced a change yet. It's practically a meme on r/fortcollins. No other local businesses do that as far as I've seen.
at my local cane's the drive thru excess spills out into the nearby gas station. sometimes it stretches out into the chick fil a parking lot, and that's when it gets really interesting to watch!
Is this in a particular mid-sized college city near a national park
That's funny. Tempe, AZ has Cane's next to ASU but that place is dead usually, or they figured out how to park a car.
However, the business that has lines spilling out into traffic is Dutch Bros Coffee right across from ASU. It's so-so coffee, so I don't see the fuss. Probably it's because the underagers can't hang out on Mill Ave.
the only way that would be funnier is if the other restaurant was called abels
Fuck literally any news site that autoplays video
Especially one where I can't find the fucking video player to turn it off so I can read the fucking article
Woah, what browser are you using? Content auto-playing has been deprecated for a while in Chrome/Firefox. Auto-play with audio unmuted at least.
Hmm, it definitely loads paused for me on FF for Android, weird.
"Defendants even went so far as to purport to sell Raising Cane’s the exclusive right to sell deboned chicken products at the Shopping Center—all while knowing McDonald’s had already been sold that right."
McDonald's had an "exclusive right to sell rotisserie chicken and other prepared chicken and chicken products for on or off-premises consumption” from a lease negotiated between BC Chicago and Jubilee Limited Partnership back in 1994. Crossings of Hobart is the successor to Jubilee in that deal after ownership of the shopping center changed hands.
The restrictive covenant specifically prohibited Crossings of Hobart from leasing or selling property to any rival “fast good or quick service restaurant which prepares, serves, or sells de-boned chicken products," Raising Cane's stated in its lawsuit.
The exclusivity issue came up earlier this year when Crossings of Hobart asked McDonald's for a waiver to let a Chipotle Mexican Grill move in. McDonald's declined and then also noted in its correspondence that a Raising Cane's would violate the terms of its lease, demanding that no one else be allowed to sell chicken to-go at the shopping center.
Crossings of Hobart attempted to negotiate a new deal with McDonald's to allow waivers but it was adamant about the existing agreement being enforced.
the creamiest crap always floats to the top! what a country.
demanding that no one else be allowed to sell chicken to-go at the shopping center
How is this an actually enforceable thing, lmao.
Is what McDonald's sells even legally allowed to be called "chicken?"
I tried Raising Canes recently and thought it was so awful.
It was so bland. Very fried chicken for white people.
It's just a vehicle for their sauce.
The sauce is okay, but it's just:
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
I think it's pretty good on like a chicken sandwich wrap with some pickles made at home. Infinitely better than the fast food product.
There's one near my work and I thought they were okay. Breaded chicken tenders. Just that. And a decent sauce. Decent coleslaw.
Can't fucking fathom why anyone would wait in line half a fucking hour for it. If there's a line there's lots of other garbage food options. Or better yet, I could go to the grocery store nearby and get some real food.
