Fast food chain KFC converts eight London restaurants to halal-only menu

dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 6, 2009 | Debra Killalea and Sophie Borland

[Free ThinkerNY]

Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken is to launch a halal-only menu in eight of its London stores in a move which could be extended to other areas of the UK.

The menu, which will form part of a trial, will see the stores selling chicken products which have been fully approved by the Halal Food Authority for the first time.

KFC has 720 stores across the UK, and bosses said the move was designed to ensure the company was catering to a broader range of customers, following a growing demand for halal products.

It is the latest fast food chain to introduce a halal-only menu after Domino's launched one at a Birmingham store in February.

From this week, KFC bargain buckets, crispy strips and family feasts bought in certain outlets serving high Muslim populations will all have the halal-approved stamp.

The fast-food chain has so far converted eight of its London restaurants to sell the meat, in areas including Forest Gate, West Ham, Tottenham and Bethnal Green.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[null and void]

That isn’t Kosher.

[DManA]

What’s wrong with giving your paying customers what they want?

[RonF]

If there’s a market and KFC thinks it can make money off of it, more power to them.

[RichInOC]

Everything tastes better breaded and fried.

[a fool in paradise]

If PETA has a problem with KFC raising chickens without beaks, what’ll they say about chickens having their troats slit while Islamic prayers are chanted and the chickens are made to drown in their own blood?

[defconw]

I’m a paying customer, and I want sausage on my pizza.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Probably because they’re chicken.

[a fool in paradise]

I want pork products in my dirty rice. Unfortunately I don’t get served “my way” at a chain that may offer the foods I want at other locations.

[JoeProBono]

[a fool in paradise]

It is the latest fast food chain to introduce a halal-only menu after Domino's launched one at a Birmingham store in February.

No sausage, bacon, canadian bacon, or pepperoni on a meat lovers' pizza? What's left? Yak?

[Deb]

I remember when London smelled like the fish & chips. No longer. Several years ago I noticed the smell of London had changed completely. It was very sad. I love curry and felafel's, but that's not London.

[b4its2late]

They’ll either sink or swim.

[Charles Martel]

What's left? Yak?

Hummus and Egg McMuffin.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

[defconw]

Cheese and beef?

[Islander7]

Sounds like a business decision to me. I lived in the UK for two years thanks to Uncle Sam. All their chicken and beef tasted like fish!

[TBP]

Was that KFC’s decision or is this a franchise holder?

[markomalley]

As long as they did so as a business decision (and not via government mandate or as a result of collapsing in front of a noisy minority), then KFC is fully within their rights and I support them.

I’ve got a neighbor (Egyptian Muslim) who runs an Italian restaurant (I know...wierd combo). He DOESN’T run a Halal joint, because he knows that his customers wouldn’t want that. (Mind you, he and his family do eat halal only, at home). Again, it’s a business decision...

[Domandred]

Ah bloody hell and I just got back from going to KFC for lunch. No more twisters for me.