> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida.

That’s $22 per person. Would like to see what they ordered. Not saying I don’t believe it but that’s pretty high. My family of 4 can eat chilfila for that and chikfila is kind of pricey for fast food where Popeyes is pretty much trash.

Menu prices in the restaurant are ridiculous now.

The only way I can stomach buying fast food is through deals on their apps, which I find very anti-consumer and predatory.

It's also super annoying when you just want a quick and cheap meal but you need to spend an inordinate amount of time on their app to figure out how not to get taken advantage of by their pricing.

I don't think chick-fil-a is any less trash than Popeyes, personally, and the fried chicken itself is lower quality—too sweet and moist. The fries are dry and unseasoned. The biggest selling point is the lemonade.

Granted, I don't eat at either because better value fried chicken than both is not terribly difficult to find.

No, that's about right in my (very limited) recent experience. It's _very_ easy to spend as much at a fast food restaurant these days as you would at a sit-down restaurant, especially if you don't do one of their combo meals, or add one or two extra items to your order

The crazy high prices and general unhealthiness aside, my main beef (if you'll pardon the pun) with fast food places is that more and more of them are taking orders via AI and/or requiring you to download and install their app to place an order.

Whoa...harsh words. I consider their fried chicken sando the best in the biz, yes even over Chik-fil-a

to be fair, it's all trash