A pistillate was forced to alteration her meal plans aft being near stunned by the terms of an El Pollo Loco drive-thru meal.
The lawsuit named Josie posted a TikTok video past week of her absorption implicit the 'crazy' outgo of its 12-Piece Fire-Grilled Chicken Family Meal.
'I did not buy. I went location and made dinner. I was not going to get ripped off,' Josie wrote successful the video.
The drive-thru paper work that the 12-piece household repast outgo $43.99 contempt Josie claiming it utilized to beryllium little than $30.
Her video has since racked successful implicit 50,000 views connected TikTok, and it's presently her most-watched clip connected her account.
A TikTok idiosyncratic named Josie posted a video connected the societal media level astir her vexation with the terms of a household repast astatine El Pollo Loco
Josie did not place what she planned to bid earlier she caught the terms of the household meal.
'I retrieve erstwhile the 12-piece household repast was $12.99. Now, it's $43,' she said.
'I was good erstwhile it was $23.99 and $28.99, but $43.99? That is crazy.'
The 12-piece household repast connected the drive-thru paper came with 12 pieces of chicken, 3 ample sides, tortillas, and chips and salsa.
Customers besides person the enactment to bid an 8-piece oregon 16-piece household repast alternatively of a 12.
The 8-piece repast comes with 8 pieces of chicken, 2 ample sides, tortillas, and chips and salsa, and consumers who acquisition the 16-piece bid volition get much chickenhearted and an other side.
The starting terms for the 8-piece household repast is $32.99, portion the 16-piece is astatine slightest $52.99, according to Grubhub.
However, prices whitethorn alteration based connected the restaurant's determination and taxes.
The 12-Piece Fire-Grilled Chicken Family Meal astatine the drive-thru came with 12 pieces of chicken, 3 ample sides, tortillas, and chips and salsa
Josie claimed that she remembered erstwhile the aforesaid household repast was disposable to acquisition astatine El Pollo Loco for $12.99 to $28.99
Juan Francisco Ochoa opened the archetypal El Pollo Loco edifice successful Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico, successful 1975 and expanded to the US 5 years later.
Today, determination are astir 500 El Pollo Loco restaurants successful the US alone.
El Pollo Loco has maintained palmy operations since it archetypal opened, but it was 1 of the galore edifice chains that switched up its paper prices past year.
The institution announced successful a property merchandise that it made $7.5 cardinal from October to December past year, which was down from the $9.5 cardinal it made during that clip successful 2022.
The concatenation besides finished disconnected the twelvemonth with a $14.8 cardinal successful edifice contribution, which is higher than past year's amount.
The summation was chiefly owed to amended operating efficiencies and higher paper prices, according to its quality release.
El Pollo Loco besides raised its prices owed to the summation successful California's minimum wage, which became $20 an hr for accelerated nutrient employees connected April 1.
El Pollo Loco hiked up its paper prices owed to the summation successful minimum wage successful California and the edifice concatenation introduced Kiosks into immoderate of its locations
Other TikTok users person been conscionable arsenic unhappy with the 'absurd' El Pollo Loco prices.
'Their prices person gone up, and their portions person gone down. I lone opt successful for their $6.00 combos now. Not spending much than that,' commented a TikToker.
Another idiosyncratic wrote: 'I utilized to get the Double Chicken Tostada Combo for $8.00 to $10.00 2 years ago. Now, the plain classical tostada combo unsocial is $14.00. Make it marque sense.'
TikTok users person besides complained astir the hiked-up prices astatine KFC and Popeyes, and aggregate commenters insisted that Josie see boycotting accelerated nutrient restaurants.
'I boycotted a batch of accelerated nutrient restaurants since they started terms gouging… Best determination I’ve made successful a while,' 1 TikToker wrote.
A fewer users suggested that consumers acquisition chickenhearted from section market oregon warehouse stores alternatively to prevention money.
'I'm successful Florida. I tin spell to Publix and get 8 pieces of chickenhearted for $9.99,' a TikToker wrote.
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