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redmanjp wrote:i think these are Kentucky Fried Chicks
This is like saying it healthier to drink roundup than lanate.abducted wrote:Oil is not bad, KFC is healthier then eating doubles, it is the flour and carbs that makes you fat and causes diabetes, a KFC center breast or side breast is much healthier than a doubles or sada roti
Country_Bookie wrote:This is like saying it healthier to drink roundup than lanate.abducted wrote:Oil is not bad, KFC is healthier then eating doubles, it is the flour and carbs that makes you fat and causes diabetes, a KFC center breast or side breast is much healthier than a doubles or sada roti
Rovin wrote:even TTT news story says they didnt see any mad rush for fast food today
well this is really unexpected ... maybe in part due to how alot of ppl lost income over d past 2mths
speedmelter wrote:It good.. hope this covid 19 made the population realize how much money we waste daily behind random snacks, play whey, beer, Soft drink.. fast food etc without keeping check.
When it first happened apart from buying groceries and paying bills initially, I didn’t touch my wallet for a while. That was so amazing
speedmelter wrote:It good.. hope this covid 19 made the population realize how much money we waste daily behind random snacks, play whey, beer, Soft drink.. fast food etc without keeping check.
When it first happened apart from buying groceries and paying bills initially, I didn’t touch my wallet for a while. That was so amazing
Royal Castle bitter as KFC enjoys smooth restart
Chester Sambrano
Prestige Holdings CEO Simon Hardy has defended his company in the face of allegations it benefitted from information it had ahead of yesterday’s restarting of KFC restaurants as food businesses reopened in phase one of Government’s COVID-19 reopening plan.
The complaint was made by KFC’s main competitor Royal Castle, whose management was upset after they could not open all their restaurants in time for the start of business yesterday because they could not get a full supply of chicken from their providers.
In contrast to Royal Castle, KFC was able to reopen the majority of their outlets and drew hundreds of customers who had been starved of it for month after Government closed all food business as part of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.
But Hardy said they were simply well prepared to restart and had made arrangements with their chicken suppliers, Arawak Limited, so once Government gave the go-ahead to reopen they would be ready.
“There is absolutely no truth to the allegation. We found out just like the rest of the country did, just shortly after 2 pm on Saturday,” Hardy said as he rubbished the suggestion yesterday.
“This rumour or allegation, I expect has started because people saw Arawak chicken trucks delivering chicken to our stores on Friday, which is where it started from. And what that is, is we were packing hampers for our staff - 2,700 hampers, that were paid for by the Victor and Sally Mouttet Foundation.
“So I was part of the team packing hampers on Friday with 100 other volunteers and we provided hampers to all our hourly paid staff - you know like powdered milk and rice and pasta and beans and those sorts of stuff. Just to tide people over during this difficult time.”
He said Awards sponsored half the cost of the frozen chicken for the employees and this was delivered to various restaurants on Saturday to be distributed with the hampers.
“That is the fact. Whether a Trini wants to go and believe that or figure that’s a cover story, that’s obviously up to public. I can give you the facts as I have them...From my side of view, categorically, we had no advance notice and there was no preferential treatment whatsoever,” Hardy said, adding KFC will deliver another 513 hampers to monthly paid workers on Thursday.
Prestige Holdings is the parent company of KFC, Subway, TGI Fridays, Starbucks and Pizza Hut.
However, a senior Royal Castle executive expressed grave concerns about their competitor’s apparent edge. The executive, who did not want to be named, said the company prides itself on supplying fresh chicken from the farm but for this to happen, suppliers have to deliver daily.
He said in the current scenario where the announcement was only made by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Saturday, they were not in a position to mobilise to be fully ready for yesterday. The executive noted, however, that some other chicken operators were not in the same position.
“I find it funny that an announcement could be made to open fast-food restaurants and there were others who were prepared to open,” he said, noting that as late as midday yesterday, all Royal Castle locations remained closed due to a lack of chicken.
Based on information Guardian Media received, the first delivery to Royal Castle outlets from their supplier, Nutrimix, took place around 2 pm.
“I am very disappointed,” the executive said.
Director at Church’s Chicken Anthony Sabga Aboud also said they considered several scenarios ahead of the Prime Minister’s news conference to ensure they would be ready. He said because of this, they put key suppliers on stand by and brought out staff over the weekend to prepare the stores and warehouse.
“We were able to get chicken in time to open the stores,” Sabga Aboud said.
Guardian Media contacted Nutrimix to find out how much advanced notice is needed to facilitate large orders to a restaurant such as Royal Castle. In a situation like the current one, its vice president Shameer Mohammed said, “We would have received orders from Royal Castle today (Monday) and we met delivery today (Monday).”
He said the order would have had to be placed yesterday because their offices are not open on Saturday.
But Arawak marketing director Robin Phillips said they had workers on standby on Saturday as they anticipated “good news” for the foodservice sector from the PM.
“We were ready from the time we listened to the Prime Minister on Saturday,” Phillips said.
He said they got calls and made arrangements to deliver on Sunday and yesterday.
But the Royal Castle executive said they did not give their suppliers prior notice because “we did not know what he (the Prime Minister) was going to announce.”
He accused KFC of having information which enabled them to mobilise faster. Notwithstanding the chicken issues, he said everything else was in place to welcome customers. He said during the closure the company put things in place to ensure physical distancing, proper hygiene and sanitation measures would be in place for the reopening.
hydroep wrote:Royal Castle bitter as KFC enjoys smooth restart
Chester Sambrano
Prestige Holdings CEO Simon Hardy has defended his company in the face of allegations it benefitted from information it had ahead of yesterday’s restarting of KFC restaurants as food businesses reopened in phase one of Government’s COVID-19 reopening plan.
The complaint was made by KFC’s main competitor Royal Castle, whose management was upset after they could not open all their restaurants in time for the start of business yesterday because they could not get a full supply of chicken from their providers.
In contrast to Royal Castle, KFC was able to reopen the majority of their outlets and drew hundreds of customers who had been starved of it for month after Government closed all food business as part of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.
But Hardy said they were simply well prepared to restart and had made arrangements with their chicken suppliers, Arawak Limited, so once Government gave the go-ahead to reopen they would be ready.
“There is absolutely no truth to the allegation. We found out just like the rest of the country did, just shortly after 2 pm on Saturday,” Hardy said as he rubbished the suggestion yesterday.
“This rumour or allegation, I expect has started because people saw Arawak chicken trucks delivering chicken to our stores on Friday, which is where it started from. And what that is, is we were packing hampers for our staff - 2,700 hampers, that were paid for by the Victor and Sally Mouttet Foundation.
“So I was part of the team packing hampers on Friday with 100 other volunteers and we provided hampers to all our hourly paid staff - you know like powdered milk and rice and pasta and beans and those sorts of stuff. Just to tide people over during this difficult time.”
He said Awards sponsored half the cost of the frozen chicken for the employees and this was delivered to various restaurants on Saturday to be distributed with the hampers.
“That is the fact. Whether a Trini wants to go and believe that or figure that’s a cover story, that’s obviously up to public. I can give you the facts as I have them...From my side of view, categorically, we had no advance notice and there was no preferential treatment whatsoever,” Hardy said, adding KFC will deliver another 513 hampers to monthly paid workers on Thursday.
Prestige Holdings is the parent company of KFC, Subway, TGI Fridays, Starbucks and Pizza Hut.
However, a senior Royal Castle executive expressed grave concerns about their competitor’s apparent edge. The executive, who did not want to be named, said the company prides itself on supplying fresh chicken from the farm but for this to happen, suppliers have to deliver daily.
He said in the current scenario where the announcement was only made by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Saturday, they were not in a position to mobilise to be fully ready for yesterday. The executive noted, however, that some other chicken operators were not in the same position.
“I find it funny that an announcement could be made to open fast-food restaurants and there were others who were prepared to open,” he said, noting that as late as midday yesterday, all Royal Castle locations remained closed due to a lack of chicken.
Based on information Guardian Media received, the first delivery to Royal Castle outlets from their supplier, Nutrimix, took place around 2 pm.
“I am very disappointed,” the executive said.
Director at Church’s Chicken Anthony Sabga Aboud also said they considered several scenarios ahead of the Prime Minister’s news conference to ensure they would be ready. He said because of this, they put key suppliers on stand by and brought out staff over the weekend to prepare the stores and warehouse.
“We were able to get chicken in time to open the stores,” Sabga Aboud said.
Guardian Media contacted Nutrimix to find out how much advanced notice is needed to facilitate large orders to a restaurant such as Royal Castle. In a situation like the current one, its vice president Shameer Mohammed said, “We would have received orders from Royal Castle today (Monday) and we met delivery today (Monday).”
He said the order would have had to be placed yesterday because their offices are not open on Saturday.
But Arawak marketing director Robin Phillips said they had workers on standby on Saturday as they anticipated “good news” for the foodservice sector from the PM.
“We were ready from the time we listened to the Prime Minister on Saturday,” Phillips said.
He said they got calls and made arrangements to deliver on Sunday and yesterday.
But the Royal Castle executive said they did not give their suppliers prior notice because “we did not know what he (the Prime Minister) was going to announce.”
He accused KFC of having information which enabled them to mobilise faster. Notwithstanding the chicken issues, he said everything else was in place to welcome customers. He said during the closure the company put things in place to ensure physical distancing, proper hygiene and sanitation measures would be in place for the reopening.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/royal-castle-bitter-as-kfc-enjoys-smooth-restart-6.2.1114740.c2c515c6d5
lalloboy101 wrote:
Soca singer Sean Padmore, aka Hey Choppi, was among the first people to buy doubles at the corner of O'Meara Road and the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Arima on Monday. Restrictions set by the government are being phased out to reopen the economy. - ANGELO_MARCELLE
matr1x wrote:The lines by subway were non existent
Dohplaydat wrote:matr1x wrote:The lines by subway were non existent
Makes sense, who the f*ck was craving subway this last month
Dohplaydat wrote:speedmelter wrote:It good.. hope this covid 19 made the population realize how much money we waste daily behind random snacks, play whey, beer, Soft drink.. fast food etc without keeping check.
When it first happened apart from buying groceries and paying bills initially, I didn’t touch my wallet for a while. That was so amazing
Get off your high horse and let people spend money where they want. At least spending on many of these things keeps thousands employed.
meccalli wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:speedmelter wrote:It good.. hope this covid 19 made the population realize how much money we waste daily behind random snacks, play whey, beer, Soft drink.. fast food etc without keeping check.
When it first happened apart from buying groceries and paying bills initially, I didn’t touch my wallet for a while. That was so amazing
Get off your high horse and let people spend money where they want. At least spending on many of these things keeps thousands employed.
Yeah, it also keeps one enslaved to their palate and all those meds they take for metabolic syndrome so you can continue to eat crap, and burden the healthcare system with expenses related to obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Let's continue to to pay for the self imposed lifestyle diseases of others, because they can't control what they put in their mouth.
But hey, the more sick people we have, more employment opportunities right?
Dohplaydat wrote:meccalli wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:speedmelter wrote:It good.. hope this covid 19 made the population realize how much money we waste daily behind random snacks, play whey, beer, Soft drink.. fast food etc without keeping check.
When it first happened apart from buying groceries and paying bills initially, I didn’t touch my wallet for a while. That was so amazing
Get off your high horse and let people spend money where they want. At least spending on many of these things keeps thousands employed.
Yeah, it also keeps one enslaved to their palate and all those meds they take for metabolic syndrome so you can continue to eat crap, and burden the healthcare system with expenses related to obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Let's continue to to pay for the self imposed lifestyle diseases of others, because they can't control what they put in their mouth.
But hey, the more sick people we have, more employment opportunities right?
It's their choice, they have enough education and knowledge to know its bad. And for that matter, you can't pick and choose the bad like what speedmelter is doing.
Was I wasting money on healthy foods if I bought? I've often found it just as expensive to cook food vs buying food.
Saving is good, but it isn't always good for the economy, especially in a time like this when almost all businesses have been hit hard.
Food for thought as I had to explain this to several people who just you speedmetler, was bad talking people's spending habits and boasting about saving.
Let's say 25% of the population decides that their extraneous entertainment budgets for restaurants, bars, movies etc were 'wastage'. That means all these businesses immediately see a decline of 25% revenue. It's obvious now that Covid-19 has also scared some people from these activities as well.
So most businesses instead of making profit, might barely break even. Who wants to break even? Am I setting up a business to make NET zero profit or loss? Am i running a charity? Nope. So now imagine if 10-20% of these businesses close down within a year.
That results in thousands of job losses. Who is hiring them? If they're out of work, they can't pay basic bills, groceries etc. So now all revenues from businesses drop. Now these businesses may lay off workers and close branches too as demand across the board falls.
So consequently you buffing up people telling them to stop buying fast food has resulted in you getting laid off at your so called 'safe' job.
Congrats, we now have a recession and an even larger dependent population.
So now your taxes go into supporting them rather than developing the country.
This isn't meant to bad talk saving, saving helps the economy at other times, especially when it can lead to a boom in investment and construction. But that is couple years away, right now we all need to do our part to support the economy.
Dohplaydat wrote:Food for thought as I had to explain this to several people who just you speedmetler, was bad talking people's spending habits and boasting about saving.
Let's say 25% of the population decides that their extraneous entertainment budgets for restaurants, bars, movies etc were 'wastage'. That means all these businesses immediately see a decline of 25% revenue. It's obvious now that Covid-19 has also scared some people from these activities as well.
meccalli wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:Food for thought as I had to explain this to several people who just you speedmetler, was bad talking people's spending habits and boasting about saving.
Let's say 25% of the population decides that their extraneous entertainment budgets for restaurants, bars, movies etc were 'wastage'. That means all these businesses immediately see a decline of 25% revenue. It's obvious now that Covid-19 has also scared some people from these activities as well.
My point isn't about saving money, it's about lifestyle decisions and purchasing options in an attempt to spare taxpayers both the economic brunt of self imposed associated ncd's and the cost on personal wellbeing and ultimately quality of life.
Your statement defends critique of persons' spending habits, the justification being that it provides employment.
First of all, there's healthy fast food options and secondly if people avoided fried chicken and doubles, it wouldn't cost either their jobs. Both cases have healthy options and can adapt to consumer demand if people choose to exhibit this. Already you see it in doubles where persons buy a cup of channa instead.
Change is never easy but if we continue to blind ourselves to the bigger picture and focus on short term satisfaction, we'll always be spinning our wheels and perpetuating a culture of death.
The entire concept of the lockdown is based on this very argument, what's the bigger picture and what do you value more? Lives or the economy? And if the economy is deemed to be essential to life, then the economy is simply unsustainable and is part of the problem ultimately.
allyuh really trying to have a real discussion with Trinituner's "The Pretender" Daran? The worst compulsive pathological liar in Trinidad? maj. tom wrote::lol:
Just now he go make a new account and claim he is a cardiac-specialist (making $100k a day with several imaginary women around the world) and "eating doubles and KFC is ackshully healthy."
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