I could point out why popeye's sucks and CFA is like a beacon on a hill, but I'd be called a racist for pointing out facts.
Lets see who bites -
Popeyes, are mostly staffed by angry black people who have a chip - a HUGE chip. Like EVERY one I've been in to. Its like they took the people who got fired from MCD's for being useless or assholes and made a chain just to hire them. Sorry it's true.
CFA actually vets its employees and has actual hiring standards.
MCD's is staffed mostly by kids who DGAF and are high or whatever. The one here where I live is staffed by FAR majority white people. They're slow, stupid, and don't care because they are LITERALLY all high. I mean snoop dog high. Gas in LA high. I shit you not, my wife HAD to have the damn pumpkin happy meal thing last year. She drug me in there to get it, and you could smell the shit outside. Dude at the register giggling the whole time. "What button is it? she wants the ghost man, the white one bro".
Popeyes, are mostly in the inner city or less fortunate neighborhoods. You dont see a popeyes in affluent neighborhoods. You do see CFA's there and the employee base is usually hired within a short radius of the store. This effects your sampling and experience. Sure, there are Great restauraunts in the hood with great service. But popeyes aint it, and youre comparing them to CFA which has different locations and employees.
There's reasons for it. I mean you can deny it, lol... But I have never encountered a happy popeyes employee. Or one that cared. Or one that didn't look at me like they hated me. Is what it is man.