TODAY was meant to be D Day for the Colonel in Nambucca but there’ll be no ‘winner winner chicken dinners’ tonight.
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A poor internet connection has been blamed by staff as the reason for the delay.
“The line keeps dropping in and out,” acting area manager Kylie White said.
“So we can’t operate the ordering systems or our registers.
“And Telstra has told us that they can’t come out to fix it until Thursday.”
Major fast food retailers are so reliant on digital operating systems these days that a simple pen and paper job wouldn’t cut the mustard.
A handwritten sign about the delay on the KFC registers is attracting a lot of attention from service centre visitors.
The fridges are stocked and a full staff showed up to work for a 10am launch today, but everyone is in a holding pattern until ‘computer says yes’.
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“Everything else has gone so smoothly. It was a really successful open in all other regards,” one of the management team said.
Meanwhile, next door the MacDonalds is heaving with people pouring in off the highway on school holiday breaks.
Currently management are trying to sort out a temporary arrangement involving wifi dongles so they can at least partially open before Telstra makes their call out on Thursday.