The chicken box?
I had Harold's twice on a recent weekend -- once on Thursday night and then again on Saturday night. Thursday night my chicken came in the bag I've been familiar with all along, but Saturday night it came in this box.
Since when has Harold's been using boxes?
Personally, I get my Harold's with hot and mild sauce (extra hot on the side), and for some reason I kept dropping my chicken that night and had to dig it back out of the box.
Are they using chicken boxes at your favorite Harold's?
Labels: chicken box, packaging
Harold's: A good way to induce labor?
While in Chicago recently, I spoke with two women who had each heard of other women using Harold's Chicken to induce labor on their pregnancies which had gone past their term. Both of these women had heard that Harold's was good for that and had recommended it to friends of theirs, and it never failed: The past due moms went into labor shortly thereafter.
Anybody else heard of that before?
Labels: induce labor, labor, pregnancies, pregnancy
Can't help you with franchise questions
Just a note to say that this blog is not in any way connected with the good people who own or franchise Harold's Chicken shacks. We quite often get inquiries from people asking "how can I open a Harold's in [you name it: Georgia, Minnesota, Colorado]?"
Can't help you there. No idea. Best of luck to you though, from one Harold's lover to another -- and if you do get one going, make sure you come back and tell us about it so we can share that good news with the world.
We can't help you with online car insurance quotes, either, or student loans consolidation, or your new home equity line of credit.
Labels: franchise
The official Harold's Chicken bag directory
It's here -- the official Harold's Chicken bag directory, taken from the bag of chicken I had over the weekend.
Click here for the directory.
Bulletin: Harold's #14 closed for vacation
Here I come back to Hyde Park from the Galut, high-tailing it to 53rd Street for my dark half (hot and mild, extra hot) -- and they're CLOSED! For vacation.
Fortunately, there's Stony Island, and if no Harold's is open on Stony, you're just not going to eat chicken. And I found a place, right across from the mosque -- my first time there and it was fabulous. (By the way: They served wheat bread under my chicken. My wife thought that that somehow was an improvement; I couldn't tell any difference, frankly, when I made my fry sandwich. That much hot and bbq sauce on any piece of bread is going to taste pretty much the same -- and pretty good.)
UPDATE: They're back open, though the old phone number (667-9835) just rings off the hook. Better you should check the
Official Chicken bag directory and call their newer number.
Ordering chicken online: a good business idea?
Recently I've been thinking about whether it would be a good business idea to make it so you could order your Harold's online -- probably just for a few particular stores -- and I wonder what y'all think about it as a business idea.
One key question is, would you pay any extra for your order to be able to order it online? If so, how much? A nickel? Dime? Quarter?
What if every online order entered you in a contest of some sort -- say, free Harold's for a month? THEN how much extra might you pay for your order?
Chicago Reader on Harold's
For those of you who (like me) can't pick up a copy of the Chicago Reader, click
here to read their recent pieces on Harold's. Great history and a mathematical system for determining which store is the best.
I had Harold's twice on a recent weekend -- once on Thursday night and then again on Saturday night. Thursday night my chicken came in the bag I've been familiar with all along, but Saturday night it came in this box.
