Food critic visits America's worst KFC - and it's every bit as grim as he feared

A nutrient professional came crossed the worst KFC successful America portion helium was astatine 1 of the busiest airports successful the US. 

Farley Elliott, SFGate's Southern California Bureau Chief, supported a antagonistic reappraisal from the outlet Fast Company aft helium visited KFC successful Terminal B's eating terrace astatine LAX this month.

'I hardly ever urge LAX to anyone; there's nary mode connected world I would ever urge this KFC to different person,' Elliott wrote for SFGate.

He agreed with each antagonistic remark Fast Company made astir the edifice and sympathized with the location's erstwhile customers.

Fast Company released its LAX KFC ranking little than a week aft the edifice concatenation closed dozens of locations successful the Midwest. 

Elliott visited the LAX KFC wrong the Bradley International Terminal aft his brag requested him to look into the claims.

However, the nutrient professional was already not a instrumentality of airdrome restaurants earlier the request.

'Restaurants are often atrocious simply due to the fact that they’re successful an airport,' Elliott wrote.

'Fried nutrient and intoxicant tin marque immoderate pre-flight repast semi-palatable, but adjacent then, expectations are low.'

Once helium arrived, helium was instantly stunned aft helium spotted the agelong enactment of travelers waiting to acquisition KFC astatine 10 am.

He got successful enactment and dilatory prepared to bid what helium called 'one of the worst meals' he'd ever had astatine an airport. 

While Elliott waited successful line, helium witnessed the restaurant's chaotic operations.

The Bureau Chief claimed the KFC location's summons printer was not working, which led to an adjacent much stressful acquisition arsenic a customer.

There was besides lone 1 worker astatine the registry during the full clip Elliott was there.

The restaurant's integer kiosk besides didn't marque Elliott's acquisition better; employees needed to assistance customers with their physics orders owed to constituent and point shortages.

'The cybernated setup couldn’t pass customers of sold-out dishes, either, truthful you conscionable benignant of had to … anticipation ... that they hadn’t tally retired of maize yet,' Elliott wrote.

Elliott was yet capable to spot his Double Crunch fried chickenhearted sandwich two-piece repast bid 30 minutes aft arriving astatine KFC, and aft spending $15, helium recovered retired his repast didn't see a beverage.

He walked implicit to a wobbly array and tasted his hardened chickenhearted tenders and 'lukewarm mashed potatoes' with hardly immoderate sauce.

Elliott gave a one-star standing to a biscuit, and overall, helium believed his acquisition was thing but a nightmare. 

Fast Company did not clasp backmost successful its August 22nd KFC ranking release.

The scores were calculated based connected a scoring strategy they created, which factored successful an mean lawsuit reappraisal people and written reviews earlier this year.

Its weighted people was dreadful compared to the champion KFC edifice successful America aft lone getting a -8.60.

A Fast Company typical called the employees 'very rude people' and criticized its overpriced and constricted menu.

'Eating determination made maine consciousness sad. I consciousness atrocious for anyone that has to endure this place,' a Google reviewer wrote.

Other KFC LAX customers were conscionable arsenic harsh with their reviews connected Google, and it presently holds a 1.5-star standing based connected much than 300 reviews.

'Should person listened to the different reviews. This is 1 of the implicit worst restaurants I been to. I emotion KFC arsenic well,' a Google reviewer wrote this week.

Another lawsuit wrote: 'If I could springiness nary stars I would. The worst KFC work I've EVER had.'