Kentucky Fried Chicken to Serve Fish?
US fast food chain KFC says it has been forced to close almost all its chicken outlets in Vietnam and would switch to serving fish for the interim period of the bird flu crisis in that country. Eight KFC restaurants were shut on Monday in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s commercial centre, which has banned the sale of poultry and culled more than two million chickens. “It has been very hard for us,” Nguyen Chi Kien, KFC Vietnam deputy country director, told Reuters. Mr Kien said KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc, would reopen its eateries at the end of this week and offer fish, including fish burgers. KFC, one of the communist country’s few international fast food chains, along with the Phillipines’ Jollibee Foods Corp, operates nine restaurants in southern Vietnam. Chicken has also disappeared from upscale restaurants, hotels and homes in big cities in the South-East Asian country but is still widely available in the countryside and at street stalls. KFC, which had been using around 30,000 locally farmed chickens per month, said it might import frozen chickens from North America to replace local supplies.
US fast food chain KFC says it has been forced to close almost all its chicken outlets in Vietnam and would switch to serving fish for the interim period of the bird flu crisis in that country.Eight KFC restaurants were shut on Monday in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s commercial centre, which has banned the sale of poultry and culled more than two million chickens. “It has been very hard for us,” Nguyen Chi Kien, KFC Vietnam deputy country director, told Reuters. Mr Kien said KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc, would reopen its eateries at the end of this week and offer fish, including fish burgers. KFC, one of the communist country’s few international fast food chains, along with the Phillipines’ Jollibee Foods Corp, operates nine restaurants in southern Vietnam. Chicken has also disappeared from upscale restaurants, hotels and homes in big cities in the South-East Asian country but is still widely available in the countryside and at street stalls. KFC, which had been using around 30,000 locally farmed chickens per month, said it might import frozen chickens from North America to replace local supplies. (Source: ABC Health News, Reuters Health, Jan 2004)
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