Farmer Boys called the tow company. In CA, if you park in a reserved spot in a public lot, you may be towed only after an hour has passed, and I was in-and-out of Cane's in 20+ minutes. I should've sued the owner, but I know the practice is common - Ralph's in Laguna will nail you the moment you leave their lot.storewanderer wrote: ↑September 6th, 2022, 9:52 pm Farmer Boys sound like absolute pricks. I suppose it is impressive their tow truck company was monitoring it so closely. I assume they called and tipped them off unless the tow truck driver was lurking in the lot watching for people to "park and leave" (this tactic is common up at Lake Tahoe, especially the parking lot with the Raleys at state line CA). I have been involved with businesses in the past who have posted signs about customer parking only/tow truck and the arrangement we had was basically if we called and asked them to tow a specific vehicle and they came and towed it (often would take days for them to even show up), it was no benefit whatsoever to us, other than to get the vehicle off of the property.
The Popeyes locations in Reno have done extremely well. They are some very high volume units and have done well from day one, well above average performing for Popeyes. I notice the locations in Sacramento suburbs just have a trickle of business, but a few older 30+ year old ones more toward the middle of Sacramento run high volumes. The Popeyes that took over a string of KFCs in Chico/Redding/Yuba City/Oroville areas have done quite poorly, I am surprised they are still open; those units were more productive as KFCs but the franchisee got into trouble and YUCK didn't try to save them.
You convinced me to stop at Popeye's. The 6-piece meal is $10.99 with a coupon in MV, but does not come with a drink, so it's slightly cheaper than KFC (we didn't need the drink anyway) Food was very good, but they would only give us two sauces. At least they're good-sized, KFC shrunk theirs not long ago.