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Honey BBQ boneless chicken done right!
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For those of you not familiar with my previous review on Church's Chicken, please refer to www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=111170 and it should help explain this review.
I stopped at Church's Chicken yesterday after work. I went inside the lobby to use my "Be My Guest" cards, courtesy of Carol. Since the voucher cards weren't for the product that originated these reviews, I decided to add that to my order...just to see if anything was done about it. Since I was inside the lobby, I was actually able to watch them make the Honey BBQ Boneless Wings this time around.
I can now see why and how they were made the way they were the first time. They have a giant squirt bottle sitting next to the prepping station. They take the squirt bottle and add it to a mixing container w/ lid. They then shake & toss the chicken inside the container, evenly distributing the sauce. I have a feeling the time before, that they just grabbed the squirt bottle and gave it a few quick squeezes over the top of the chicken. But not this time...instead, they came out looking and tasting great!
Now, just to make sure my visit wasn't influenced or tarnished in any way by the fact that I was using the voucher cards, and thus tipping the employees off that something was amiss...I decided to use their drive through today, during a different shift. I could see them through the window using the same procedure again today, shaking and all, and I once again received great looking and tasting Honey BBQ Boneless Chicken!
I wanted to thank Carol for following through and making sure this location was following protocol. She asked for the chance to make it up to me, and hopefully regain my business. JOB WELL DONE CAROL! You are an example to how all businesses should be run. Thank you!
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Skye on 03/20/2012:
Good review. Glad your visit went so well this time, and kudos to Carol!
trmn8r on 03/20/2012:
I assume these were all the same location, and it sounds like they have taken corrective action. Thanks for posting the update!
madconsumer on 03/20/2012:
very helpful review!!
MRM on 03/20/2012:
Thank you, Justice, for your excellent investigative report on Church's chicken!
Laurella on 03/20/2012:
Those do look good. I don't care for Church's chicken though.
JISCal2 on 03/20/2012:
Awesome review! Just goes to show letting someone know there is an issue gets things done!
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You call this BBQ?
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FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO -- I recently stopped at the local Church's Chicken to pick-up some wings for my wife. The wing selection in our town is somewhat limited, so we ordered from here out of convenience. Never again. Not if this is the quality of product being churned out to the masses. I realize that no one can live up to the advertised pictures on the order screen, but this is borderline ridiculous.
If one of the savvy My3cents members will leave me a link to Church's, I very much intend on forwarding this along to their offices. This is simply unacceptable.
UPDATE: On 3-16-12, I received these coupons in the mail. Out of respect for privacy, I pasted over Carol's last name.
What I'm having trouble understanding is why would they send me coupons for food other than what I ordered? Should that lead me to believe that the issue hasn't been resolved, nor is there any intention to fix the problem, and that instead they would like me to move on to a different menu item that is less visually susceptible to such scrutiny? That would be the equivalent of having McDonald's mess up on a Big Mac, and then offer me chicken nuggets as compensation. Just doesn't make any sense to me?
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Slimjim on 03/07/2012:
Have you tried looking for the corporate website to obtain a feedback link?
Anonymous on 03/07/2012:
I'm on it Slim. Just curious if I can attach a picture? The picture speaks volumes all by itself.
Anonymous on 03/07/2012:
I submitted a complaint to their "Contact Us" section of their website, and invited them to stop by My3cents and look at the review by leaving them the link to this review. I'll keep you all updated if I receive an email.
Churro on 03/07/2012:
I would not call that BBQ, it is not Pig. I would not call those wings, they have no bones. I'd call those chicken nuggets. If you want some good chicken nuggets give Chic-Fil-a a try. They'll serve them with BBQ sauce or wing sauce or both.
DebtorBasher on 03/07/2012:
Basher doesn't eat armpits!
The advertised pic looks like pieces of brain and the received pic looks like something Ejack flushes down the toilet.
Anonymous on 03/07/2012:
I wish we had a Chic-fil-a in our neck of the woods. I've never ate at one before.
Anonymous on 03/07/2012:
Those look disgusting. I go to church's every now and then only for fried chicken. And its only good fresh out of the grease.
I get my wings from the local Wing Stop pretty good.
Anna Molly on 03/07/2012:
Aah! Gross! I would not eat that. I agree with Churro, wings have to have bones, because the meat closest to the bone is the best :)
Anonymous on 03/07/2012:
Gross indeed...but at the very least they could've smothered the entire meal in sauce. Instead, it looks as though they had a squirt bottle nearby and just gave it a quick once-over.
Anonymous on 03/08/2012:
I submitted a complaint to their website. I wonder what type of response time I should expect? Days, weeks, months, years?
Anonymous on 03/12/2012:
I received an email from their company. It is as follows, with names deleted of course:
Dear Mr. ********,
Please accept my sincere apology. I went to my3cents.com and saw the picture you posted.
I was very embarrassed to see the product that you were served.
Can I make this up to you by sending you a "Be My Guest" card to use at your convenience?
And would you please consider giving us another opportunity to serve you.
Carolyn ******
I sent them a Thank You email for responding to me in such a timely fashion. I will be interested to see what happens when I return to the same location and use the voucher. Will I receive the same quality of product? Has the situation been corrected? Or am I simply being shined on? I will post a follow-up review to that visit as well. I'll keep ya'll posted!
trmn8r on 03/12/2012:
Yay, I wouldn't really know how to feel about being given a "Be My Guest" card after viewing what went on a month ago in the pics above.
I'd like to hear something more along the lines of "we will address quality standards with the operator of this location."
Old Timer on 03/12/2012:
Excellent review and info. An alert to stay far away from this product.
Keep in mind they spend tens of thousands of dollars on the pics of their products. No FF delivered junk will ever look like the pic you ordered it from. They spend days staging one product for a pic using toothpics, glue, paint, air brushing, lighting etc... Often the pics are made from fiberglass and other products then painted as they can't get a good pic no matter what of the crap they push over the counter at us.
JISCal2 on 03/12/2012:
The picture on the left is pretty appetizing. The one on the right (no offense to the photographer) makes me want to hurl. Good review!
madconsumer on 03/12/2012:
I have had the churches bbq chicken before, and it IS as advertised. and yummy!
JISCal2 on 03/12/2012:
Based on the proof in this picture (after all, a picture is worth one thousand words) it is not as advertised and appears anything but yummy.
Old Timer on 03/12/2012:
Have to agree 110% with that John!
Anonymous on 03/12/2012:
Well, I'm giving them a chance to correct the situation and "make things right". My question is what their interpretation of making things right will be? Is it simply to hand out a free voucher to temporarily keep the customer happy, or will they actually contact this particular location and correct it at the source? Time will tell, since I intend on taking a picture of our replacement meal.
madconsumer on 03/12/2012:
I guess members have different service from chain restaurants.
my order appreaded as pictured on the left.
Laurella on 03/12/2012:
The wings on the left are just chicken strips with a spoonful of sauce. Real wings are tossed with the sauce in a bowl so that every inch of the wing is covered.
trmn8r on 03/12/2012:
Correct J4A - that was the concern I had. A voucher to return and receive a complimentary plate of slop isn't a step in the right direction.
As I have posted often, this is what has happened mostly to me at chains, and why I have given up on them. Waste time having food prepared a second time, waste time speaking with management/writing complaints, and then go back for a redo at management's cost but my time expense to experience the same treatment. Seen it happen way too many times.
Anonymous on 03/16/2012:
I reconfigured the picture to show the compensation I was offered, and added some commentary in the body of the review near the bottom.
Anonymous on 03/16/2012:
Wouldn't it be cool if all reviews had follow-ups like this? That would definitely make things a bit more interesting. If nothing else, it might give some folks peace of mind and closure...lol!
Nohandle on 03/16/2012:
Justice I enjoy members notifying others they have made a change to their initial review. If others had not been following it they might wonder about some of the squirrely responses (yours was not in that category)that made no sense. It's great we on M3C's can edit or even delete our reviews at any time but sometimes it's taken to the extreme after replies begin.
trmn8r on 03/16/2012:
Peace of mind and closure aren't terms that immediately come to my mind (yet) in this story.
Anonymous on 03/16/2012:
When corresponding with the Church's Chicken representative via email, I was under the impression that they would send "open" vouchers for products of my choice. These vouchers pretty much dictate what I'm going to buy for my family to eat. Now instead of giving me vouchers to replace the meal in question, I'm now being told which food I have to order as a replacement instead. I'm not sure if I should be satisfied or insulted? Maybe a little bit of both...
Slimjim on 03/16/2012:
Considering the infraction was a visual thing and you still ate the dinner(I assume), I'd go with satisfied and close the book on this.
Anonymous on 03/16/2012:
I sent the rep a follow-up email thanking them for their response and prompt delivery of vouchers, but I voiced my displeasure and disappointment in receiving vouchers for menu items other than what I had originally ordered. It's almost as though it was their way of saying, "This is what we serve and how we serve it, and since you didn't like it, then here are some vouchers to try something else." The only problem with that, is the rep stated that they were "embarrassed" of the product that was served. Then why not try and redeem yourself by letting me try them again, hopefully with better results.
Because we live nearby, I may visit them again out of convenience, but never because they're my first choice for quality food and service.
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Filthy Dining Area, Expired Food, Poor Management
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GLOBE, ARIZONA -- My family and I as well as a couple close friends of ours had decided to go grab dinner, so we headed to our local Churches Chicken, ( a place we had vowed to never go back to after a bad experience) but we hoped with time, things had improved. Well we were wrong. When we arrived, there were at least 6-7 employees, all running around the kitchen, throwing things around, including chicken at each other, then laughing about it, they were running in and out of the restaurant, meeting up with friends outside, touching the doors, fiddling with their hair, etc, then coming back in, without washing hands, or wearing gloves, and handling food.
When we got our order, we went to sit down. There was not 1 clean table in the hall, yet, no customers were there. We had to clean a table ourselves to have a clean place to sit down and eat. We were there for about an hour, and there was a stack of 60 plus pieces of chicken that sat there the whole time we were there, and there were no actual customers but us, ( the rest were there for freebies, the workers friends)
Towards the end of the dining experience, people started coming in, they were served that hour old chicken, and also had to clean their tables to have a clean place to sit down, not one time, did ANY of the employees come out to dining area to clean, rather, they were running around, in and out of restaurant, hanging out with friends, and two of the workers, even looked high, and a smell of marijuana was prominent on their clothes when they came upfront of the store,
This place is an unsanitary, ill managed, very unprofessional, breeding ground for food poisoning, that needs to be investigated ASAP before someone gets very ill!
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GARALND, TEXAS -- I decided I would go to Church's Fried Chicken on Broadway Blvd. yesterday after church. It is store number #1564.When I pulled into the drive through and was waiting to order after about 5 minutes of sitting there this lady asked if she could take my order. In the middle of ordering she asked me to hold on. I said okay. So I sat there for about 5 minutes and in the meantime another car pulled in behind me.
I sat there about another 5 minutes (I didn't want to go anywhere else because my family wanted chicken for lunch. The lady behind me screamed to me, "Is the drive through working?", so I answered yes, she told me to hold on a minute. So the lady answered well, that sure is a long minute!
So, I decided to say something to the order microphone. I said, "hello"! The lady came back on and said "Just a minute, We are short handed today"! So I said okay ma'am. Finally after about 15 minutes sitting at the drive through she took my order and I pulled up to the window. When I pulled up, the lady looked at me and said, "wait a minute, I've got to fix this lady's order". I didn't know if she had put my order in wrong or someone else's order in wrong. Then she said pull up and I will bring your order out to you. I said okay, so I pulled up and turned my vehicle around facing the building. I looked at the ticket and she had placed my order wrong. (order # 286134). I had asked for the mixed special with just potatoes. She put in all dark meat as my order. I decided since it was taking so much time, and I was very hungry and my family was waiting that I would just take that and go hopefully. As I sat there, 3 or four cars came and went with their orders filled, and 2 people had gone through the window with their orders filled. By then, I had had enough. So I went to the window after waiting behind two more people and asked for my money back. The cashier at the window, whose name was Phillip, asked me if there was a problem.
So I said yes, and pointed to the lady I didn't get her name), who looked like she had eaten my chicken, and said she told me to pull up and she would bring my order out. I had been there 45 minutes by then. Phillip looked at the woman, and asked her what the problem was, and she said Oh, I just forgot about her! By then, I was very upset. To think I had sat out there, and to boot, she had totally forgotten about me! Church's Fried Chicken just lost a good customer. Phillip who was a very nice young man, showed me where he had subtracted my order out of the system, because I had paid with my debit card. It is midday and I am still waiting to see if my account shows where they refunded my money. It has not been put back in my account yet. We love chicken, but I know one thing, Church's will not be getting my hard earned money anymore!
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Doc J on 07/10/2006:
Don't let one bad employee ruin you on cheap chicken at Church's. I hope "Phillip" had some clout. It would have been better to find a member of management. BTW: Did you eat the "wrong" order? You got your money back...that was nice.
gazelem67 on 07/10/2006:
Even better than finding a member of management, I'd contact Church's corporate office. I know that when I used to work at Subway, our managers and owners HATED to get complaints sent down by corporate.
Regardless, you might (and should) get some sort of "I'm sorry" coupon from them for it. In fact, you may consider demanding it, given the poor customer service you had.
jan2006 on 07/10/2006:
Yes, I'm going to call corporate. In fact, when I was looking to see if there was a complaint department for Church's, this site came up. At least it made me feel better to be able to vent about the bad customer service I received. As far as Doc J's comment, I thought it was rude.
Three people working in a chicken house, you are not going to find the "manager". As far as cheap chicken, you go to any "restaurant" or "fast food" joint and I don't think you are going to find "pricey" chicken. I never received my order in the first place so how could I have eaten the wrong order? Yes, the "ticket" showed where she had put in the wrong order,and I was even willing to overlook that fact. I would have been happy with the wrong order therefore; I would not have been asking for my money back and at least my family would have had lunch at a decent hour!
Anonymous on 07/10/2006:
Find another Church's to goto after church that was nice of Philip give 'em another chance, though pay with cash and ask for that receipt.
Doc J on 07/10/2006:
There's always SOMEBODY in charge. Pardon the pun but even three workers in a "chicken house" have a pecking order. Sorry I didn't give you the solicitous answer you were pining for and "cheap chicken" doesn't refer to the price. You got crummy service and patiently sat and waited 45 minutes waiting for it. Commenting on that would be rude.
Anonymous on 07/11/2006:
Don't you just hate it when someone wet behind the ears messes up your favorite place? I hate that with a passion!. Who do they think they are? Do they all come from the same mold? My employees would be fired in in a minute! I only visited churches chicken twice(none in town) and found it an OK place to eat.
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spark911 on 06/29/2010:
I think we must think about the kind of people that are working at fast food places and there locations. The pay is 7.30 and some of them don't come from the subs....I think we need to be a lttle more patient..dot be so quick to call the 800 number to get them fired...the chicken is cheap...cheap...and you do have another option...stay home and cook.
jktshff1 on 06/29/2010:
cockroach, one of the nice things where I live is that I can open carry my weapon. Keeps 'em away.
PepperElf on 06/29/2010:
wait, you're blaming the staff because someone begged from you?
what did you want them to do, beat him up with a stick to keep him out?
chickenboy on 05/23/2011:
I totally understand your frustration I hope that you were taken care of, however I there was one comment that was kind of immature on your behalf, and that was you saying that the employee looked like she ate your chicken. Come on now, its okay to be upset but to ridicual someone on there weight cause of where they work?? Chill out...
jen on 06/04/2012:
I am a night manager at a churches chicken...and while I understand totally why you are upset...I'll let you in on a few things..for one I know what it is like to be short handed..that is how my store is ran all the time. is the owners decision to have only 3 people doing the work of 6. it is very stessful and frustrating. in my experience it is very stressful to make a drive through customer wait to order. but when you are doing multiple oreder..drive through and counter you have to take who was there first...no matter how long it takes. and while you don't need a college degree to work fast food, I'll have you and anyone else who thinks different know that fast food workers are not bottom of the barrel peopple..that is such a nasty steryotype,and I for one resent it. I am a hard working mother of two. and fast food is not an easy job. I am not excusing her of forgetting you. but I do know how it can get..I have been doing churches for 7 years and if it gets hectic and backed up , I would not be shocked if the same thig happened to me. and it's unfortunate you happen to be that customer. but why allow this one bad time to stop you from ever enjoying churches chicken again?? be it that location or another?? and on a side note...you said you were coming from church?? hasn't serving our lord and allowing him to live in you tought you to rise above?? and I'm talking about your little insulting comment you made about how she looked like she ate your chicken. what a childish immature thing to say... a little un christ like if you ask me.
johnny thompson on 06/02/2013:
I was told that I would be a hour and a half for spicey chicken and they were cositrating on origenal chicken chicken only, and was on a Saturday on 06-01-2013 at 7
maria howell on 08/20/2013:
What time do you open regularly on Sunday I went at 11 and the store was close the cooker was outside waiting and I was ordering 300 piecs for a church and I'm a regular customer and every time I go there the manager is always on his phone or smoking the store is always dirty and I heard a conversation between Workers saying that his father used to work thereand that he quite and he is still he is still had his father on pay roll and he takes money from the sage box. Store address is 115 plantation lake jackson tx 77566
Ricky on 01/02/2014:
Every time I go to Churches I had to wait 15 mins for fried chicken what's the problem
Donna Massey on 01/11/2014:
The coupon said two can dine for $5.00 ea. She said only one can dine. For that price. I wanted the 5.piece chicken tenders. Two times which would have come to $10.00 plus tax.. She would not honor my coupon. I told her I would send complait in. Their reply was go ahead. I don't want her job. I just wanted my coupon honored.Churches Chicken in Okc OK. 6.30 pm. Please if they cannot honor coupons don't put them in the paper. Your only wasting my time.
Ric on 01/12/2014:
The Texas Health Department need to close
the one on 11910 Perrin Beitel, San Antonio,Texas. This place could not be at
any Services anyone. very dirty, food not cook,
floors very dirty cooking area and eating area,
the front was open, than close, than open
all within 10 min. I paid for my food at the
window for a total of $ 9.94 got 06 back
with no return ticket, went inside after me
knocking on the door for them to open the
door I got my ticket wait for my order 20min
or more. got home and the chicken was
not cook, and notice the ticket had a female
name on the ticket (Nina ) 1/12/2014 3:55:08
your manager was working clean the floor
were foods was being cook. he got little
from two young man maybe 16or17 these
boys walkin I have no idea if they clean there
hands they tried to make fried chicken
with glove this was dirty.
This Store Need to be Close !! or Change
new mangement and new Employees
clean up your act: DO NOT SALE FOOD
Adrean Bryant-Hooper on 02/25/2014:
I called them in December and put in a change of address for my W2's and called them again about 2 weeks ago and still haven't received them.
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Dirty Filthy Establishment
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NEW BOSTON, TEXAS -- Firstly, the staff portrayed a large amount of incompetence and a bad attitude towards customers. No one attended to me for about ten minutes, and when the food service worker finally showed up, she showed a severe lack of interest. She had to take my order three times, but even so, she still presented me the wrong food!
Secondly, the service was very slow & poor. I ordered tender strips and this dork gave me 2 thighs and 1 leg. I asked her the if she understood my order and she still messed it up. What made matters worse was that after waiting for so long, the food service brought the wrong food and she had to take it back, she became loud and angry. I stood my ground and let her know she will not talk to me without respect. The female is the rude one who wears loud ruby red lipstick and a jewel between her eyes. I called back to speak to the manager who is a female name (Alexis) and she was very unconcerned about this issue and showed no interest in what I was reporting to her about the incident. I decided to take matter in my own hands and report it.
Thirdly, the food itself was of very poor quality. It was quite cold and tasteless. Immediately I reached home, I suffered from very bad diarrhea which lasted for two days.
All these things considered, I feel I need to be compensated. In addition, I demand that you improve the service at particular churches chicken restaurant or improve the quality of the food, as the service being offered is hazardous to the health of your customers. I have notified the local health department, therefore I will be reporting it to the authorities myself.
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Joshua on 10/11/2013:
I'm sorry, but when you resort to calling the employees names like "dork", all credibility goes out the window. You demand respect, but it seems like you don't show much yourself.
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This is too bad
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HOUSTON, TEXAS -- My family love churches chicken and we love them more because their chicken is bigger than any other chicken place. BUT for the past few times we have been disappointed with Churches. The first time we got some chicken they gave us the wrong order. We ordered Mix chicken and they gave us all dark. We had to drive a 20min drive back for them to fix it. Then we got one piece that was either sour or left out to long because it stunk, after you bit into it. We immediately called and let them know. The manager said when we come back in to let them know and he gave us his name. So the second time we went we forgot to let them know and we order the same thing. This time we checked it before we left. BUT! again when we got home and taste one piece it was sour or had been left out to long before cooking. We called again and the manager said he couldn't believe it so he wanted us to bring it back and said that he will replace it. Of course it was a 20min. dirve and we told him that and we explain to him this is the second time and why would be lie when we order a 12 piece and its only one piece. So again he said he would replace it when we come in. NOW!! on March 27th, 2012 we stopped there and got an 8 piece mix with a side of mashed potatoes which is their advertise special. The location is
Churcehs Chicken
(713) 434-0916
13350 Alameda Rd. Houston, TX 77045
we left and went home to eat and they gave us all dark meat again. By this time of visiting them I was mad. I had to dive the 20mins back to get the order corrected and the ladies there wanted to argue with me that if they give me at least 3 pieces of white meat that it's mixed. I told them that is not true according to their manager which I have forgoten his name, and had to describe him to them so they could know that I spoke to him, that its supposed to be 2wings, 2 drumsticks, 2breasts, and 2thighs. She again wanted to tell me that I was wrong. I told her again the samething and asked for her manager. She said he was not there and she gave me the correct combination and I then explain that I also wanted to get my other to pieces, for the inconvenience they have put me through. I really hate it because we did love Churches. We have now decided that we are not going to Churches again.
Debora J.
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Skye on 03/29/2012:
You should let corporate know about this fiasco.
Old Timer on 03/29/2012:
Best advice Skye, I doubt corporate will ever see this review.
Skye on 03/29/2012:
I think the op just needed to vent here. I doubt they were hoping corporate would see it. But you never know, because companies and businesses do read here. Some just don't offer any help.
Anonymous on 03/29/2012:
I posted a review about Church's Chicken. I also contacted corporate, but I went a step further by copying and pasting the link to the exact review, and including that in my email to corporate. It was easy for corporate to find and click-on, then the complaint was handled quickly and to my satisfaction.
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Never Go To Church's At Night!
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GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS -- My husband and I went to the Church's Chicken on Carrier and Jefferson and got there about 15 minutes before they were closing. We were cutting it close, but all we ordered were two of the double chicken sandwiches to go so we figured no big deal. We pulled up to the speaker, and they took our order, no problem.
Then, we drove around and paid for our food. The lady at the window left to get us change. We waited. And waited. And waited. About 10 minutes had gone by when we started to wonder if anyone was coming back to the window. Then, we saw an employee come to the back and start bagging up our sandwiches, so we are thinking that we're finally getting served. No, she was bagging up "extra" food, and LEFT THE STORE with the sandwiches we just paid for.
Then, they turned off all the outside lights, as we're still sitting out there with no food and no change. My husband gets out and knocks on the drive through window. The employees actually look at us, turn their backs, and continue going about cleaning the store as if we aren't there. This infuriates him, and he starts honking the horn.
Finally, another 10 minutes later, and the manager comes over to inform us that they are closed and we need to leave. He tells her that we just ordered two sandwiches, they took our money, we watched her employee LEAVE with our food, and we want our money back, NOW. She actually starts to argue with us that she never saw us come through and order anything, and we went back and forth with her arguing that she needed to give us ten dollars that we gave one of her employees for our food.
Finally the person that actually took our change came to the window and told the manager that she did in fact take our money and then forgot to put our order in. How do you forget to put an order in for the only customer at the place?? They tried to apologize and give us coupons, but we promptly informed them there was no need, because we were never going back to that store again. We did call into the corporate office and made a formal complaint as to the way we were treated, and they sent us gift cards but we just threw them away.
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Anonymous on 09/25/2008:
I only go to Churches on Sunday
Anonymous on 09/25/2008:
Churches chicken tastes like cardboard and is waaaaayyy to greasy.I hate it about as much as I hate comcast cable.
wow! nice employees and manager
Anonymous on 09/25/2008:
TW, Comcast must be doing a better job now, you don't call them Comcrap anymore, LOL.
Anonymous on 09/25/2008:
Comcrap,Comcrud,Comcast,its all the same POS cable company.
Anonymous on 09/25/2008:
Bad experience? Yes
Did the employee fess up to their mistake? Yes
Did Church's try to compensate you for the mistake and poor treatment? Yes
So, over one poor experience you determine that you will never eat at Church's again and threw out the coupons? I bet you will go back once you're done having a tantrum and realize that it was just a mistake.
ringostar on 09/25/2008:
I agree with justcuz, one bad experience OK but they did handle the situation. Besides why are you complaining if the solution wasn't good enough???
naomitx24 on 09/25/2008:
they did try to handle the situation but this was the "last straw" experience that put a bad taste in my mouth with that particular church's. they have a history of rude service, bad food, and taking forever. at this point no amount of coupons would have made me want to keep eating there. this actually happened a couple of months ago and trust me, I really won't ever eat there again. it wasn't so much a tantrum as a heads up to anyone wanting to go to that location.
jktshff1 on 09/25/2008:
I have to agree with just in this particular instance, the employee deserves kudo's for admitting the mistake and Churches for trying to do the right thing.
Anonymous on 09/25/2008:
they gave you a coupon that would be enough for me.
Starlord on 09/27/2008:
As an old R&B number admirably done by Dan Ayckroyd on the BLues Brothers album 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' says, what you want? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrubber biscuit?
Anonymous on 09/27/2009:
Naomix, I feel if a company gives you bad service and you continue to frequent their place of business, you have no right to complain.
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DAYTON, OHIO -- I ordered 2 chicken Tuesday specials and 2 peppers a a order of fries, I had to wait about 5 minutes the chicken I ordered was not ready yet so I was given a soft drink because I had to wait, that was nice, but then I got my order and left for home get home no peppers so I called and the manager said what her name was and told me the next time I come in and ask for her, I wasn't able to make it back the following Tuesday but did return the 2nd Tuesday and I asked for her, the new manager looked in a notebook and said he didn't see that she had written it down, and said she was at another store, which I was not driving across town for 2 peppers, so he said he couldn't take care of it, also the are so unorganized, you go to one window and stand they say we are not taking orders at this window, let the customer know from the beginning where to go and stop the horse playing, I worked for Churches in 1972 to 1974, and our motto, was our customers were 1st and not to give them the wrong items or forget items they paid for, the problem is, very very poor managers who don't care enough to train their staff, that the customers are their meal ticket and they should take pride in their job, and remember a customers order, which they will ask you 3 or 4 times take your order and forget they just took your order.
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LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO -- My husband and I went into the store june 8 12:20 pm, ordered a 10 piece meal extra spicy, or "spicy spicy" waited a few minutes, was given the box of
chicken in a little tiny plastic bag, proceeded to taste the crispy part, and told
the clerks, "this is not spicy" the actual cashier just looked at me and the woman standing behind her piped up "you said half and half" and of course the
cashier said "yes", well not more than two pieces were spicy at all, and I said,
"no I did not" (guess I'm being called a liar") rude tone of voice, lousy attitude,
the boxed was opened by the mouth behind the cashier and said it's dark so
that means it's spicy spicy, called me a liar again, that's what you ordered, called me a liar again, and rude, at that, I am obviously an older person, and they seemed to be enjoying their power over the customers? (Sick), also asked about the 2 sides and biscuits, I re-inquired, and the clerk who had mentioned this to me in our initial order just looked at the woman standing behind her (must have been a manager or whatever) and just stared back at me and said nothing, then ignored me and turned toward the manager? And the rest of the crew about 3 more all just standing around doing nothing, but all seemed pleased with themselves and enjoyed their lost sale, and total rudeness toward me as a customer, if this were my store, I would find at least 2 or 3 new employees who could treat folks with respect, and politeness, things all these women seem to lack.
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I entered late 6:48 5/26/14. These people did not care, the floors had free standing water from the front counter right under their ovens and deep fryer. This water had to be at least one inch deep, over 30 foot area during operating hours. All the employees were walking trough this and tracked it all over the back area where they were working, and into their refrigerated walk in. After we were given our food, they got it wrong, had to repeat ourselves many times. The register person who was running the window gave us empty cups when their soda machines were broken down for the night. A black lady was telling us "Seriously, I'm telling you cannot eat here." This is a freaking restaurant, we walked in and our food took them nearly 40 minutes to serve us. The worst thing I seen was a black employee putting his hand in the flour bare handed, mixing chicken for the fryer. The counters were clean, but the back was a disaster area, I have never seen a place that needed employees fired such as this place did. I'm surprised they have not seriously injured anyone yet by serving food out of a kitchen that should have been shut down by the health department. Pure and utter filth floated on the water with garbage floating in it as they walked through it. GAWD! Water evaporates, it was hot inside. They even had the back door propped open with their mop and bucket. Flies buzzing their dinning area. There is no customer service at this establishment, if you value your health. Stay away. This place deserves no stars, if anything. They should be shut down
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you should be able to just make a macro
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Is there a way to keybind my corehound's Ancient Hysteria or do I have to click it every time? Also, if the pet name is important in the macro/keybind, his name is Fuzzy. Thanks guys.
Note: I realize this is more of a macro question, which has likely been answered a million times.. but the search function didn't turn up anything I was searching for.
you should be able to just make a macro
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It's indeed possible, much like Tengenstein above me said.
You should create a macro with this:
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Once you have created it you simply just put it on your actionbars and set a keybinding to it.
Awesome, thanks guys. I was worried it was gonna be some long, drawn out mess since it was a pet ability.
For keybinds, you can actaully relocate petbar keybinds in the ingame menu, but this will change it for all pets, not that specific one!
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The pet action bar is like any other action bar. Additionally it has default keybindings already, Ctrl+#. Only if a particular action is not already on the action bar would you need to add it to one of your own action bars. And you should never create a macro which is simply cast a single ability, rather you should have the ability itself from the spellbook placed on the action bar directly. That would be a waste of a macro otherwise. You could however choose to macro pet abilities with your own abilities for simultaneous usage.
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As others have said, you can either create a macro on place it on your action bars to cast that ability or go into your Keybinds window and setup a hotkey for the button on the pet action bar that the ability will be on.
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I believe its under special action in key bindings
Thanks again, guys. Quin, I'll check out that link once I'm a little deeper into this can of monster. Sleep-reading means horrible retention!
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He's only 82 at the moment, so I'm still running Wrath trinkets (Pyrite Infuser and Herkumi War Totem). However, I already have more than enough JP to pick up Fluid Death when I ding 85. Plus I'm running BM spec (With much better results than I had in MM!) so maybe I could macro "Turn big and red" into it? THAT MAKES SENSE! That's on my to do list.
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Vintage Dragon Magazine Adverts: May Edition, Part 2
That top number, in case you're wondering, now goes to Alliance Game Distribution.
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It's easy to forget that Fantasy Games Unlimited used to have a plethora of ads in Dragon.
As a sometime Rifts GM, I have no excuse for not having named a session or adventure "Battle For The Ancient Robot. Jim Ward shames me.
Sold, sold, sold. Because the two are a natural pairing.
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- Siskoid said...
My dog ate my dice is not a good excuse for not showing up for a session.
- May 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- James V said...
Ah, the way a picture can stir a memory!
When I was young, I did not have a subscription to Dragon, so I would get my fix by waiting until my Mom had to go to the Air Force Base to run errands. The library there had a collection of Dragon mags that went back to about 4 or 5 years. I would always ask to be dropped off at the library after lunch, and most of the time I got my wish.
Just me and a stack of Dragon Magazines for a summer afternoon? Priceless. And the books I would borrow before heading home were educational too. Thanks to that library I plowed through the original Dune novels and the Book of the New Sun just to name a few.
I owe a lot of my geekery to that library.
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I still have a Dragonbone, and it still works. I use it when I don't want the players to know I'm rolling something.
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@Joseph Wow! Colour me impressed. I was always fascinated with that magic Dragon Bone. I couldn't quite wrap my head around how it worked as an adolescent and the ad reminded of those novelty ads in the back of comics. I'd love to see one in action one day.
(makes me think of a great, creepy GenCon pickup line "Would you like to see my Dragon Bone? I've got it back at the hotel room.")
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FGU was in Roslyn, NY, huh? Who knew?
I'd also love to know the history of how that Gameline company became the behemoth that is Alliance. Or did Alliance just appropriate the phone number at some point?
To my knowledge, no one's ever looked at the history of the distribution side of the hobby.
As always, this feature brings back fond memories and raises some interesting questions. Thanks!
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You say you cant beat deposits off with a stick? You consider your investments in fed funds sold to be a non-earning asset? So why are we talking about growing core funding?
In banking, loans have outgrown deposits 13 out of the last 18 years. The five exception years were 20082010 (Great Recession) and 20012002 (9/11). In summary, during healthy economic times, loans outgrow deposits and they will again when we emerge from our current economic funk. When loans outgrow deposits in the industry, financial institutions have three choices in funding the growth mismatch: (1) securitize and sell excess loan production into the secondary markets, (2) fund excess loan growth out of the investment portfolio or (3) fund the excess loan growth with non-core funding.
Things will be a bit different this economic recovery because (1) the securitization markets have shrunk to a vestige of their former selves, (2) regulators are demanding increased asset-based liquidity and (3) they are also asking institutions to reduce their reliance on non-core funding. On a macro-economic level (banking industry), I am not sure what regulators are asking for works in the reality of a healthy economy. But your examiner will be examining you, not the industry.
This means competition for deposits will be fierce when the economy recovers, loan demand lifts off and excess liquidity is burned out of bank balance sheets. Of course, anyone can raise all the deposit funding they need by paying high rates. Dont believe me? Try throwing an ad in the paper next week for a 3 percent unrestricted 12-month CD. Far more challenging will be to raise all the funding you need while effectively managing your cost of funds.
Managing funding costs will be a big issue in the next rising rate environment as many of you have placed floors under variable rate commercial and home equity loans. For the first 200 bps of rate rise, yields on these loans will not move. Your cost to fund them will.
It is crucial to have a core funding plan in place to deal with rising rates, especially for the first 200 bps of rate rise. Effective segmentation strategies that separate rate sensitive from non-rate sensitive funds will be an important cost management component of your core funding strategy.
Lets use an example. Say you have $100 million of MMDAs currently priced at an all-in cost (including servicing) of 1 percent. Market rates increase 200 bps. You find that you need to raise your MMDA rates by 75 percent of the change or 150 bps in order to hold onto the $100 million. Your results will mirror those in Strategy 1 of Figure 1 (Click here for larger chart.). At an all-in cost of 2.5 percent, annual all-in cost of the $100 million will be $2.5 million.
On the other hand, you might raise the rates on existing money markets by 30 percent of the change in market rates to an all-in cost of 1.6 percent. At the same time you introduce a new premium MMDA account at an all-in cost of 2.5 percent. That strategy is shown as Strategy 2 of Figure 1. Assuming 50 percent of existing balances (the non-rate sensitive portion) stick in the existing MMDA service line, your weighted all-in cost moves to 2.05 percent, saving $450,000 per year.
But what if the rise in rates is accompanied by increased loan demand, causing you to target MMDA growth of $10 million to $110 million? You find that in order to grow MMDAs by 10 percent, you need to raise MMDA all in-costs by 90 percent of the change in market rates. If you increase rates on the existing account (Figure 2, Strategy 1), your all-in cost will be 2.8 percent with an annual expense of $3.08 million. (Click here for a larger chart of Figure 2.) On the other hand, you could raise rates on the existing money market account by 30 percent of the change and peg your new premium account at 2.8 percent (Figure 2, Strategy 2). Assuming 50 percent cannibalization to the new MMDA account and $10 million in growth, the weighted annual all-in cost will be 2.255 percent, and the expense will be $2.48 million, a savings of $600,000.
These are simple examples that incorporate a number of institution-specific assumptions. Your strategies may be significantly more sophisticated than the above two examples and will incorporate institution-specific assumptions on pricing response in your competitive environment and on the extent to which your strategy causes cannibalization. On the other hand, the concepts illustrated in these examples apply to CD strategies (specials), checking strategies (rewards checking) and many other strategies where segmentation is used to control funding costs while growing deposits.
Based on the concepts illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, let me make the following recommendations for dealing with the coming rising rate environment.
The time to start working on your core funding strategies is now. Your strategies are highly likely to involve one or more new product introductions. You do not want to find yourself in a rising rate environment unprepared.
Analysis like that in Figures 1 and 2 is helpful in that it compares two alternative strategies you are considering. You will never get decision-making information like this out of your accounting systems or ALM model as in the real world you will only implement one of the two strategies.
If you are concerned about the validity of assumptions like the cannibalization assumptions in the above two examples, test the results across a range of potential customer responses. Then ask yourself, How well do I feel about the results across the range?
You are always better off competing with a new CD special in a rising rate environment than competing with standard-term CDs.
You are also always better off competing with a new premium non-maturity deposit account than paying up on existing non-maturity deposit accounts in a rising rate environment.
If you want the greatest bang for your segmentation buck, focus on non-maturity deposit account segmentation strategies. They affect costs on 100 percent of your balances immediately. In addition, you are likely to see less cannibalization with non-maturity deposit strategies as a larger percentage of your non-maturity account customer base is non-rate sensitive.
Tom Farin is president and CEO of Farin and Associates (www.farin.com), an A/L software and strategy firm based in Madison, Wis. Contact him via email at tfarin(at)farin.com or by phone 800-236-3724.
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By MESFIN FEKADU
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(AP) - Justin Bieber may be Canadian, but he was the all-American boy at Sunday night's American Music Awards.
The pop singer dominated the awards show, winning three trophies, including artist of the year. His mom joined him onstage as he collected the award, beating out Rihanna, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Drake.
"I wanted to thank you for always believing in me," Bieber said, looking to his mom.
The 18-year-old also won the honor in 2010. He said it's "hard growing up with everyone watching me" and asked that people continue to believe in him.
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"Wow. I feel violated right now," he said, laughing.
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Another collaboration was the night's most colorful performance: Korean rapper PSY and MC Hammer. Hammer joined the buzzed-about pop star for his viral hit "Gangnam Style." PSY rocked traditional "Hammer" pants as they danced to his jam and to Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit."
Minaj, who wore three different wigs and four outfits throughout the night, repeated her AMAs wins from last year, picking up trophies for favorite rap/hip-hop artist and album for "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded." She was in an all-white get-up, including fur coat and pink hair when she performed her new song "Freedom." The scene was ghostly and snowy, as a choir _ also in white _ joined her onstage. One background singer stole the performance, belting semi-high notes as Minaj looked on.
Usher kicked off the three-hour show with green laser lights beaming onstage as he performed a medley of songs, including "Numb," "Climax" and "Can't Stop, Won't Stop," which featured a smoky floor and a number of backup dancers, as Usher jammed in all black, with the exception of his red shoes. He won favorite soul/R&B male artist.
His protege Bieber won favorite pop/rock male artist in the first award handed out and gave a shout-out to those who didn't think he would last on the music scene.
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My View: Take advantage of absentee ballots
Date: June 21, 2012
by: Carol Green | Guest Columnist
The Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections has dramatically reduced the number of locations where people can vote. The same is true of neighboring Manatee County.
Sarasota, like most counties across the U.S., is hurting for revenue. The major downturn in real-estate values has forced cities and counties to look for ways to conserve revenue. A major scale back in services has been the result. At the same time, there has been a dramatic shift by individuals in the use of absentee ballots. Oregon is the first state in the U.S. to exclusively hold its elections by mail. In 1998, as a result of a citizens' initiative, almost 70% of the voters approved the vote-by-mail system as the only voting access available to voters.
I switched to using absentee ballots a few years ago; I wasn't going to be in town on Election Day, and I wanted to be sure I voted. After that initial absentee ballot, the office of the Supervisor of Elections continued to send absentee ballots to me.
I discovered that it was much better to avoid standing in long lines under the hot sun or in the rain. I experienced an added benefit in that I could better study ballot issues in depth and understand the ramifications of the vote from the comfort of an easy chair.
This is going to be a difficult year for voters. Two distinct ideologies are at work. Aside from the innuendo, exaggerations and misleading information, when you get down to it, there are distinct differences between the presidential candidates and parties.
As it happens, each candidate has strong and weak points. It will take some time to decide whether each man is as evil as he is made out to be or whether his policies are as problematic as portrayed. Tough decisions will have to be made before one votes.
Don't let the reduced number of polling outlets dissuade you from voting. Make sure you get an absentee ballot early, and make your vote count. You will be impacted by the outcome.
If no other issue demands your attention, be aware that the next president will likely name one or more candidates to the Supreme Court. There are important cases in the works that could change or modify current policy. The result is law that will impact your life.
This upcoming election is too important for you to pass up. Study the issues and make your voice heard. America has been the shining light to democracy in the world. That is, despite the fact that far too few Americans vote. This can be remedied in a number of ways.
Election Day in most countries is a day when most eligible voters do not work. Most Europeans, for instance, go to the polls on a Sunday. If Oregon can successfully have voting by mail, we, as individuals, can certainly take advantage of this option.
Thanks to absentee balloting, the County Election Commission is actually making it easier to vote. Times are changing. A great percentage of banking is done online. Newspapers are read online. People are giving up phones that have land-based lines. Many people have virtual offices and work from home. Some companies are actually "virtual" in concept.
We, as individuals, can change, too. We may actually prefer absentee balloting. For those of us in Florida, elections are held at the beginning of season. Do we really need an extra spin in our cars? Hopefully, we will discover that there is a higher turnout for elections as a result. There are no excuses. Make that call.
In Florida you can sign up for absentee ballots when you register at the auto license registration office. You can also register by going online at http://www.flhsmv.gov/ddl/vote.html .
Let's remember that voting is democracy at work.
Carol Green is the co-founder of Bradenton-based First America Bank and active in several local philanthropic causes, including the Glasser-Schoenbaum Human Services center.
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- I agree that absentee ballots are the future for many people for a variety of reasons. My only question is how does one determine how many elections and absentee ballots one is eligible to receive. for those with more than one home. this becomes a problem since there is no national voting register and driver's licenses are not used as verification in all states. home ownership does not define voting eligibility nor does having or not having a driver's license.
I believe this had been a problem in many states and counties and was highlighted in the Bush/Gore election here in Florida's Broward county. Not sure what if anything has been about voter's participating in more than one state. I understand that there are arguments as tax payers for things like bond issues but it is still one person one vote. Here is where the issue focus should be.
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Sounds Assembling, 1928
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Painting, Canadian Modern (1910-1979)
Bertram Brooker, who lived in Manitoba from 1905 to 1921, was a close colleague of the Group of Seven. In addition to being an artist, Brooker worked as journalist, advertising strategist, cinema manager, and fiction writer. His 1936 novel Think of the Earth won the first Governor General's Award for Fiction. In 1927 he became the first artist in Canada to exhibit abstract paintings, of which the WAG's Sounds Assembling is a defining example. In this work Brooker sought to create a visual analogue to music, capturing the dynamism of sound through ricocheting poles of colour and light. In the early 1930s, after meeting the artist Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, Brooker developed a highly representational style. Sounds Assembling was purchased for the Gallery by FitzGerald, who was Principal of the WAG-affiliated Winnipeg School of Art from 1929 to 1949.
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Douglasfir Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca
This magnificent specimen has a pyramid shape and a straight trunk. The needles are bluish green, occasionally yellowish green. It prefers sun or light shade, moist, well drained, acid or neutral soil, but is found in its native habit on rocky mountain slopes. Matures at 40'-70', 12'-20' spread in the home landscape, over 100' in a natural setting. (zones 4-6)Pricing Information
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Hardiness Zones 4 - 6The Douglasfir can be expected to grow in the zones shown in color in the arborday.org zone map. View Map
Type of treeEvergreens
Mature HeightThe Douglasfir grows to be 40' - 70' feet in height.
Mature SpreadThe Douglasfir has a spread of about 12' - 20' at full maturity.
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Prefers moist, well-drained, acid or neutral soil, though can also be found in its native habitat of rocky mountain slopes.
ShapeThis Douglasfir has pyramidal shape.
The Douglasfir is to the world of trees what a decathlon winner is to the Olympics. This tree is an all-around champion. It is one of our most important lumber species, a magnificent ornamental tree, and one of the most popular Christmas trees in America. Additionally, a large number of bird and animal species find shelter and food in its majestic foliage. These particular Douglasfir seedlings are grown from seed from Lincoln Memorial Forest in NM.
This magnificent evergreen has a dense, cone-shape when young becoming more open and pyramid-shaped with maturity. It has a straight trunk with thin, smooth bark with resin blisters when young becoming thicker and furrowed on older trees. It reaches 40'-80', 12'-20' spread in the home landscape to over 200' in natural conditions. Coast Douglasfir needles are a dark yellow green although on some trees bluish green. In Rocky Mountain Douglasfir, the needles are blue green, but occasionally are yellowish green. The light brown, 3"-4" cones grow downward on the branches with distinctive 3-pointed bracts protruding from the between the scales. The Coast Douglasfir grows best in deep, moist, well drained, acid or neutral soil with atmospheric moisture, but the hardier Rocky Mountain variety is found in its native range on rocky mountain slopes. It does not tolerate dry, poor soils, and breakage is common on the side exposed to high winds. (zones 4-6)
Wildlife Value
Douglasfir seeds are used by blue grouse,songbirds, squirrels, rabbits, and other rodents and small animals. Antelope, deer, elk, mountain goats, and mountain sheep eat the twigs and foliage. It provides excellent cover for a wide range of animals.
While the Douglasfir may have first been introduced to cultivation by botanist-explorer David Douglas in 1826, its importance to American history continues unabated. As well as being the country's top source of lumber today, the Douglasfir also helped settle the West, providing railroad ties and telephone/telegraph poles. The Douglasfir was crucial to American soldiers in World War II as well, being used for everything from GIs' foot lockers to portable huts and even the rails of stretchers that carried many a soldier from battle. But perhaps one contribution of the Douglasfir symbolizes its place in America's evolving history more than any other. When in 1925 the time came to restore the masts of "Old Ironsides," the USS Constitution, sufficiently grand White Pine trees could no longer be found. Today, Old Ironsides proudly sails in the Boston Navy Yard under the power of three Douglasfir masts. There are two geographical varieties of Douglasfir: Coast Douglasfir, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii native to British Columbia along the Pacific coast to central California and western Nevada; Rocky Mountain Douglasfir native to the inland mountains of the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains from central British Columbia south to northern and central Mexico. The Coastal variety is faster growing, long-lived, and can reach over 300' tall. The needles are usually a dark yellow-green although some trees they may be bluish green. Rocky Mountain Douglasfir, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca is hardier, slower growing, shorter lived and seldom grows over 130' tall. The needles are shorter and bluish green although in some trees may be yellowish green. The cones are barely 3" in length with bracts bent upwards. Douglasfir is written as one word or hyphenated to show it is not a true fir.
Sensitive to drought conditions; requires good drainage.
The needles are spiral, simple, 1-1/2 inches long, shining, shade of green depends upon the variety, two bands of stomata beneath. Coast Douglasfir has dark yellow-green, occasionally bluish-green needles. Rocky Mountain Douglasfir has shorter, bluish-green, occasionally yellowish green needles.
Flower Color
Male is red, female is green with prominent bracts.
Bloom Time
Fruit Description
The light brown, oval, pendulous cones are 3-4 inches long with prominent 3-pointed bracts that protrude between the scales.
Rate of growth refers to the vertical increase in growth unless specified differently. Rate, as is true for size, is influenced by numerous variables such as soil, drainage, water, fertility, light, exposure, ad infinitum. The designation slow means the plant grows 12" or less per year; medium refers to 13 to 24" of growth per year; and fast to 25" or greater.Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, by Michael Dirr.


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