KFC has welcomed its first customers to its new store at an Oxfordshire shopping centre
The global fried chicken chain opened its new takeaway restaurant this morning (December 14) at the Orchard Centre in Didcot.
The new takeaway restaurant at the unit in between Burger King and Shoezone, is expected to create 30 jobs when it opens.
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A new KFC store opened in Headington earlier this year in Windmill Road after planning permission was granted by Oxford City Council in April this year.
In 2019, before the pandemic, KFC said it wanted to open at least nine new outlets in Oxfordshire.
The targeted areas were Summertown, Didcot, Abingdon and at the Sainsbury’s in Littlemore.
KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, who died in 1980.
He was an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.
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