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Accommodation / Food 56 - Food and beverage service activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
1,500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 February 2022
Employment effect (start)
17 February 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
The American fried chicken chain KFC will open 50 restaurants in Ireland and the UK by the end of 2022 and wil create 1,500 new jobs. The company has just opened the 1,000th restaurant across UK and Ireland; these countries represent the company’s fastest growing markets outside the U.S. and China.
KFC was founded in Utah in 1952 and currently employs 27,000 people in the UK and Ireland.
Eurofound (2022), KFC, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 106386, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/106386.