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A primary school teacher claims KFC staff refused to cook him any chicken.

Michael Roberts is still seething with the fast food giant about the incident at the Mutley Plain branch in Plymouth.

The 32-year-old turned up at 10.30pm one night this week looking forward to tucking into some fried chicken.

He claims he was told his chances of a meal were slim because of the number of customer orders piling in.

But, according to an interview with Plymouth Herald, fuming Michael didn’t think it that was a good enough excuse.

He claimed things then went from bad to worse when staff told him he would have to wait potentially up to half an hour - by which point the store would be shut for the night.

“They would have been closed!” he said.

He alleges that when he got to the counter, all staff could offer him were already prepared chicken wings as they were ready to lock up.

Michael says he wasn’t the only one annoyed – claiming that at least one customer stormed out.

“I’m still quite irate,” he said. “It’s just unacceptable.”

Michael claims he was offered a discount but thinks it wasn’t good enough. If it had been a fish and chip shop, he said he’d have understood, but thought things would be different for a big chain.

“Not good to be honest,” he said. “They could have told us when we walked in.”

Not only that, but he said that staff had been “a bit rude.”

It’s been a tough time for KFC this year, with some even calling it ‘the great chicken famine of 2018.’

Many branches were low on stock last month after bad weather delayed their delivery trucks, leaving them offering only a ‘limited menu’.

Back in February, KFC stores were closed all over the UK due to supplier issues and local police took to twitter to tell people off for calling them about closures.

Michael Roberts, in true teacher fashion, added: “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.”

The Mutley Plain branch could not corroborate Mr Roberts’ story.

A spokesman for the company said: “As far as we can confirm, this didn’t happen.”