Shropshire's latest KFC opens for the first time as business marks major milestone
The store is the 50th KFC franchise opened by the business
Shropshire’s latest KFC has opened its doors for the first time.
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The Shrewsbury store is based at Hazledine Park - the new retail site built on the town’s former pitch and putt at Meole Brace.
Opened by local franchisee Gastronomy the KFC is the 50th to be opened by the business’s co-founder and CEO, Acky Khan.
Headquartered in Shrewsbury, Gastronomy opened its first KFC restaurant in 1996 and has grown across North Wales, the West Midlands and beyond, and has ambitious plans to double its KFC portfolio by 2030.
Mr Khan he was thrilled to be opening the latest Shrewsbury restaurant, which is also a drive-thru, in a “great town”.
He said: “It has got lots of potential. Our head offices are here. We're based out of here in the Midlands. And all of our KFC's we've grown from here.”
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Mr Khan said the site for the new restaurant was perfect, and praised Morris Property for their work putting the new retail park together.
He said: “There's another retail park just literally across the road there, super, super busy.
“The developers came to me and said, look, we want to put another retail park here and this has just worked out brilliantly for us.”
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