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Accommodation / Food 56 - Food and beverage service activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 May 2023
Employment effect (start)
9 May 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), a multinational fast food chain specialising in fried chicken, announced that, thanks to its significant successes (a growth of 70% compared to 2021), it will carry out new openings in the next 20 months (of which 30% with Drive Thru service, 30% placed in food courts of shopping centres and 40% in city centres).
These openings are expected to lead to about 500 new jobs in 2023 with the goal of reaching 5,000 within five years.
Eurofound (2023), KFC, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 109022, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/109022.