Talk about a company that can take you places. KFC has everything you need to ensure that your management career takes off: almost 800 locations in the UK and Ireland, a history of growth and success, excellent training and exceptional rewards for ambitious, talented people like you.

KFC in the UK and Ireland
The Kentucky Fried Chicken concept was introduced to Britain in 1965 when the first store opened in Preston. In 1986 KFC was acquired worldwide by PepsiCo. In January 1997, PepsiCo Inc. announced the spin-off of its quick service restaurants into an independent restaurant company. Tricon Global Restaurants and Tricon Restaurants International were founded and KFC became part of the Tricon group, the world’s largest restaurant group with restaurants in nearly 100 countries in the world. In 2002 Tricon changed it’s name to YUM! Brand Inc.

The strength of the KFC brand has seen the expansion of the UK & Ireland restaurant network to its current level of over 700 locations, some franchised. The achievement of excellent restaurant standards has also resulted in the British operation acting as a training base for many new KFC restaurants throughout Europe.

The future for KFC
Over the next three to five years, KFC will be creating up to 9,000 new jobs across the country, providing a range of opportunities for all ages and abilities from cooks to managers. KFC always works hard to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction, and in order to do this, it invests in its most important asset, its team members. Every employee can expect to take advantage of extensive training and development programmes. Restaurant Managers at KFC have highly responsible roles and manage teams of up to 40 employees.

With 760 stores and 22,000 employees already in the UK, this announcement highlights KFC’s continued growth in the UK. The growth plan will see the company both opening new stores & increasing its franchises. KFC will also invest in refurbishing stores with a contemporary new look to enhance the customer experience.

Alongside its expansion plans, KFC takes its responsibility to the community seriously and is working on a number of initiatives. It recently announced an initiative to reduce its packaging by 1,400 tonnes and published its commitments to improving the nutritional profile of its menu through the Food Standards Agency. 

Some Kentucky Fried Facts 

• KFC were the first US quick-service restaurant to come to the UK. 
• KFC’s original funding was the Colonel’s $105 Social Security cheque - the rest is history! 
• The secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices was first developed in 1939 and is still used worldwide today. 
• It really is a secret recipe, locked away in a vault in Louisville, Kentucky. Only a handful of people know the multi-million dollar recipe and they have signed strict confidentiality contracts. 
• Each year KFC uses some 202 million pounds of breading flour in its famous coating. If all this flour was loaded into 25 pound bags it would take 3,667 articulated lorries to transport it all.
• Colonel Sanders’ first meals were served to hungry travellers visiting his service station in Corbin, Kentucky in 1930. He didn’t have a restaurant, but served meals at his own dining table.