KFC opens 200 outlets in China

KFC opens 200 outlets in China

BEIJING: U.S.-based fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken
(KFC) opened more than 200 outlets in China last year, accounting
for one-fifth of the restaurants it opened globally, state press
said Tuesday.

Tricon Global Restaurants Inc., which owns KFC, now has more
than 800 KFC outlets in the world's most populous country,
company president David Novak said, according to the Xinhua news
agency.

KFC has spread to 200 Chinese cities in the 15 years since
first opening its doors.

The company also runs more than 100 Pizza Hut outlets in
China.

Novak said Tricon was also exploring the possibility of making
Chinese fast food, saying it had great market potential.

This month the company began serving a new dish modeled after
the famed Beijing roast duck in its KFC restaurants in China.
Like the centuries-old delicacy, the new dish, the "chicken roll
of old Beijing", is rolled in a thin pancake with shallots and
crisp cucumber pieces. But instead of using duck meat it contains
fried chicken.

Tricon is one of the world's largest food and restaurant
groups with 32,500 chain restaurants operating in more than 100
countries. -- AFP