It is quite difficult to differentiate one business in the fried chicken market from another while still suggesting to the kind of customers who go in for this food that the particular establishment that they are about to wander into will provide them with that same old comfortable formula they are willing to go back to time and again.
In the case of Favorite Chicken and Ribs they do it with a logo of the upper half of a cockeral smiling out at the public in a black tuxedo with red bow tie. The bow tie could be a sort of vague homage to 'Colonel' Harland Sanders, the steamboat driver, insurance salesman, railroad fireman, farmer, and ex-US army private who went on to cook up some chicken wings and then foist them on the rest of the planet. Favorite Chicken and Ribs will no doubt tell you that any comparisons with Kentucky Fried Chicken are unfair, and that theirs is an entirely separate, British, fast food creation with its own distinct culinary and cultural provenance.
Well, to me its just fast food in the same market as Mega Bite or Perfect Fried Chicken, also competing for some of the same custom as Moon Pizza and the shop next door.
At 19 St James's Street, Favorite Chicken and Ribs, 4 pieces of spicy chicken wings and fires are £1.30, 4 pieces of barbeque chili wings and fires are £1.50, 1 piece of chicken and fries are £1.30, 6 pieces of chicken and fries are £5.92, a hot apple pie is 79p, a can of drink is 50p, regular fries are 89p and large are £1.10. A 'Fish-wich Burger', fries and can, come to £1.99 and for those of their customers who are dressed up in dinner jackets, a 'Vegburger Deluxe Meal' (including fries and a drink), is £2.99.
In the cultural world inhabited by the Favorite Chicken and Ribs franchise, luxury is attainable by splashing out on a few side orders and having some unpleasant processed cheese in your bun. Nevertheless, for those interested in the transatlantic deluxe lifestyle, standing on the blue and white tiles in front of the mugger-proof counter is the thing to do. Its on the same side of the road as the entrance to the station, between Indiano Pizza and Sonia's Hair and Beauty.