QSR May 2022

KFC ’ S NEXT ACT

KFC’S NEXT-GEN RESTAURANT IS COMING FAST. O

KFC is riding eight consecutive years of positive same-store sales growth— a comeback that’s progressed beyond the turnaround stage into somethingmore lasting. Now, it’s time to complement one streak with another, chief devel opment officer Brian Cahoe says. KFC opened 55 new U.S. locations in 2021, for a net of four stores. Despite pandemic setbacks, delays, and closures, it represented the first time the chain has been net new unit positive in 17 years. ¶ And Cahoe says KFC will go back-to-back in 2022. ¶ “What you’re seeing in the U.S. is a continuation, and even a building, of momentum of all of the strategies we’ve been bringing to life and the foundation that we’ve put in place,” he says .

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