Guthrie’s Chicken Collierville — Restaurant in Collierville

When I am in Collierville this is where I go, simple as that, usually 1-3 times a week. Before I even mention the food, I'll just say the staff is NICE. There is one young guy in particular with a silver chain who is genuinely the most polite and professional person I have EVER seen working a register, I am dead serious. I wish I had his name, anyone working there would probably know who this is though. The rest of the staff are great too, the lady is usually at the table doing paperwork and the big guy in the back is super fun. This is my favorite chicken finger place. Even the cole slaw here is good which is truly a spectacle. The chicken is actually fresh and usually so hot it burns through the styrofoam. Occasionally you will get a small flimsy one that feels like it shouldn't even count as a whole tender, but that's just how it goes. The main area is very clean too. The only con is that the drinks are a little expensive and they can get stingy about refills. The sauce here is better than Cane's. EVERYTHING here is better than Cane's, I dont care! Cane's has a good PR team and some undeserved culture around it I do not understand. Guthrie's, especially Collierville, puts any Cane's to shame, and anyone who's been to both, I'm sure will agree. This is my happy place and the best chicken restaurant on the...

Price × quality × quantity × speed yields a very poor product. We ordered the bucket which was 25 strips at $35. The strips were too small to even call chicken nuggets. The taste was pretty good if you could get the breading to stay on the chicken scraps. The signature sauce was pretty good but the selection of sauce was slim pickings. As for speed, there were no other customers in the dining room and just a couple of cars in the drive thru. With the super simplistic menu selections, it should be easy to crank out the necessary product. However it took much longer than chicken takes to fry. The only reason I would come back is for the sauce until I can figure out how to make it myself. Even then, my homemade sauces would be monoliths to a seemingly paultry homage. If they need help with research and development, please contact me. I would be happy to teach them how to properly prepare a better experience from...

Avoid this place at any cost possible. There is an Arby’s next door, just go there. My last time at Guthrie’s in Collierville was today, 3/6/2023. The owner here has a lot of work in front of them and it is apparent that they do not see it themselves. This will be my fourth time in a month receiving a styrofoam box of chicken that has completely melted through the bottom of the styrofoam to-go box and encased my tenders with freshly melted styrofoam. Everybody loves that. You’d think after the owner decided to establish their bread and butter here that they would have trained their employees to at least put a piece of wax paper down before straight food contact to styrofoam. No matter what the response is from the owner here. Don’t believe it. Go to Arby’s or anywhere else...