de villiers said:
But there already IS a KFC in Stafford! I've seen it and it's always f***ing empty!
Is it? Has always been full when I've been past*, or rather have a big queue anyway. Then one disinterested person at the till, with several yoofs lounging about at the back.
I think what you're missing here though is the fact that people want it. Look around Stafford, businesses are failing all the time. A thread posted yesterday about a new indian opening was met with the general consensus that it'll last 6 months. We have more empty shops now than ever before, because people aren't spending their money in them. Yet people want a new KFC. You can't easily make people buy what they don't want. Also, its location is out at a retail park. What do you really expect there amongst the other faceless companies, a traditional sandwhich shop? It wouldn't work, its not what people are after. They want fast food between shops, somewhere like the soup kitchen would be wholly innapropriate for the place.
Slag KFC off all you want, by all means, but you have to accept that its what people want. The current KFC is still there despite crap food, crap service and being completely out of the way. It has survived while places in town have failed, there has to be a reason for that. You say how can things get better, yet miss that this IS better to a lot of people. Not everyone (and not me actually), but certainly a sizeable proportion of the community.
*apart from the numerous occaisions they run out of chicken.