It all started with a single cook who created
a world famous recipe more than 70 years ago and a list of secret herbs and spices scratched out on the back of his kitchen door. That cook was Colonel
Harland Sanders, the pioneer of KFC. Today
KFC is the world's most popular
chicken restaurant, still specialising in the Colonel’s original secret recipe
of 11 herbs and spices.
More than 40 years after arriving in South
Africa, KFC continues to promise quality, freshness and great tasting products.
Whether you’re in a big city or a small town, KFC’s chicken is prepared with
the same high standards worldwide serving every customer with deliciously fresh
food every time. All of our products are freshly prepared in-store by our team
of trained staff across the country.
To us, serving you the great tasting chicken
you know and love is always a priority. We
also source only premium quality chickens from our suppliers, so you can be
sure you’re enjoying the same great quality chicken you cook at home.
So what’s the secret
behind our great tasting chicken?
We source our chicken locally from the same
suppliers that supply South Africa’s premium retailers
Contrary to what some people believe, KFC
doesn’t manage or run its own chicken farms. In fact, our chicken is sourced
locally from the very same chicken farms that supply your favourite premium
retailers and we’re always open and honest about the quality of our chicken and
where we source it from.
We're as passionate about the welfare of our
chickens as we are about where we source them from. We care about our chicken
and we make sure that all the chicken we source is treated humanely by our
suppliers. We have strict policies in place with our suppliers and we make sure
that they all meet our animal welfare standards. Our suppliers tell us that
standards and requirements are some of the highest in the industry. In fact,
they have said that KFC has a reputation for being one of the most challenging
and thorough in the global industry. As part of these strict requirements, our
suppliers have set up a specific supply of chicken for our KFC restaurants,
just another way we make sure we source the best quality chicken.
Freshly prepared for you in-store
All our food, from our salads to our chicken,
is freshly prepared in-store especially for you. Each piece of chicken is
hand-breaded with the Colonel’s famous secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices
before cooking it to a specific time and ideal temperature in our kitchens.
Our team members are experts at making the KFC
products you know and love, with the same high standards, every time. After the
chicken is cooked we keep it for a specific holding time at a precise
temperature to make sure it’s kept hot and fresh so your every bite is as delicious
as the next. We monitor the temperature of the chicken after its been cooked as
a standard process and this is enforced in all of our restaurants from South
Africa to Shanghai.
Our processes also apply from farm to store
and our restaurants receive deliveries three times a week which helps us make
sure our products are always fresh.
Global Standards = Highest Quality
Whether you are in South Africa or anywhere in
the world, all KFC restaurants follow the same global processes and procedures
to make sure that you get consistently great tasting food every time. We
maintain our high standards by making sure that every one of our 750 KFC
restaurants across the country are audited five times a year to check that they
follow our health and safety procedures. In fact, the way our food is cooked
and prepared is strictly controlled in every one of our restaurants using the
same audit that is conducted at all KFC’s globally because consistency and quality
is important no matter which KFC you’re at in the world.
It’s important to us that you let us know
about your experience at our restaurants, so we have launched Guest Experience
Survey where you can let us know about
your experience and we can use that feedback to make sure every experience you
have at a KFC is truly So Good. Go to www.kfclistens.co.za to complete the survey.
So now you know how KFC keeps its kitchens,
and its chicken So Good for you to enjoy great tasting and fresh products, every
time.
To find out more visit www.kfc.co.za or contact our customer care line 0860 100 222,
or drop us a comment on Facebook (www.facebook.com/KFCSA) or Twitter (@KFCSA)
and we’ll get back to you.