KFC announces delivery from some restaurants and donates free meals to NHS workers
In a win for those sick of store-cupboard stews, KFC has announced it's re-opening some its restaurants for delivery – and Londoners won't miss out.
The fried chicken giant has set-up stores for delivery at 11 restaurants across the UK, though its unclear it more will follow suit soon.
Over the past week, restaurants have opened in London, the north west and Scotland, among others, for deliveries only, operating with a skeleton staff serving a limited menu.
The fast-food behemoth has also announced it will be providing free meals for NHS workers.
A spokesperson told the Standard: "Over the last week, we’ve reopened 11 of our restaurants in the UK.
"They’re open for delivery only and are serving a limited menu, operated by fewer team members with new procedures in place to help ensure we’re following social distancing guidelines.
"There’s still a need for affordable, accessible food at this time - so we want to do our part.
"We’ve also donated thousands of meals from all our open restaurants to those on the frontline, including the NHS and key workers, in partnership with Deliveroo, and will continue to do so each week whilst the situation continues."
The following restaurants have opened for delivery:
- Enfield - Coliseum Retail Park
- Manchester - Deansgate
- Heaton Chapel
- Tamworth
- New Oscott
- Manchester Hulme
- Portsmouth
- Aldershot
- Ipswich - Cardinal Park
- Glasgow - Pollokshaws Road
- Glasgow - Great Western Retail Park
KFC says they are looking at additional restaurants to open over the next few weeks, but they said if they can't do it responsibly they won't do it at all.
The news comes just three weeks after KFC said all of its restaurants in the UK and Ireland would close amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The chain said in statement on Twitter in March that it would begin shutting stores shortly after the Government ordered pubs and restaurants to close amid the fight.
A spokesperson told the Standard at the time: "Our team have done an incredible job in such tricky and uncertain circumstances.
"In all of our KFC restaurants, up and down the UK & Ireland, our team's jobs will be waiting for them when we reopen.
"All of our franchise partners are committed to doing all they can – with support from both the UK and Irish Governments – to protect their teams’ typical earnings as much as possible.”
