Angry Yelpers are torching a California restaurant for selling Popeyes chicken as its own $13 dish
- A California restaurant was caught selling Popeyes chicken as its own.
- Angry customers flooded the restaurant's Yelp page.
- The owner says that she has been transparent about this, adding that outsourcing ingredients is common in the restaurant industry.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but one California restaurant, Sweet Dixie Kitchen, took it a step further by using actual Popeyes chicken in its dishes.
The restaurant sells a fried chicken and biscuits dish for $12.95. It comes with chipotle syrup.
Owner Kim Sanchez told Fox News that she's been transparent about the fact that her restaurant sources chicken tenders from the fast-food chain, but one patron wasn't impressed.
In an October 9 Yelp review, Tyler H. wrote, "If you think Popeyes serves the best fried chicken then you really don't know what you're talking about."
He added that he thought Sweet Dixie Kitchen was not being forthright about its ingredients, saying, "I challenge you to be honest with your customers ... put it on your menu that you 'proudly' serve Popeyes chicken. You do this for coffee ... why not for Popeyes chicken?"
Sweet Dixie Kitchen's Yelp page has since been flooded with negative reviews.
Sanchez responded to the review in a since-deleted Facebook post, writing, "We always have said where we get the things we don't make here- who ever is claiming we didn't isn't being honest. And we have never claimed we make each and every item...The yelp person was not only told where we source our chicken from, when he said he didn't like it, we bought his meal."
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Read Tyler H.'s review of Sweet Dixie Kitchen on Yelp