Tan Shen, 26, from Chengdu, in China’s southwest Sichuan Province, was depressed after her boyfriend broke up with her, so she decided she needed some fried comfort food to get over her ex and went to a 24-hour KFC branch.
She said, "I was walking around feeling miserable and decided to stop off at the KFC at the train station." According to Yahoo News, Shen did not plan to stay there long and she just wanted chicken wings. "But once I got there and started eating, I decided I needed time to think." She also did not want to go back to her apartment because 'it was full of memories of him'.
After a few days, the workers of the fast food chain began to worry, "We work in shifts here and the restaurant is open 24 hours a day, so we get a lot of people coming through. At first, no one really noticed her, but after a few days, I began thinking she looked familiar," worker Jiang Ji Lung said. "Then I realized we had been serving her for the past three days and that she hadn’t actually left. When we asked her if she was okay, she said she was and just needed time to think. And then asked for another box of chicken wings with extra large fries," the employee added.
The workers let her stay since she was doing no harm to the other customers, "She was after all a paying customer, even if a bit of an odd one."
Shen's actions reached the local media and wanted to write about her. That was the time when Shen decided that she has had enough. "I had already told work I was off sick, so [I] phoned them and said I was leaving," she said. "And I was getting sick of the taste of chicken so there was no point in staying there anymore."
The woman then boarded the next train to her parents' home in Quingdao city in east China’s Shandong Province and left.
"I guess we kind of miss her." Waitress Ji Lung said, "It certainly made work more interesting"
