KFC is planning to open 150 fast food outlets in the UK and Ireland over the next five years, creating 6,500 jobs.
Plans include a £21m investment in 32 new branches this year and a programme to refurbish 220 branches which will cost KFC another £40m this year.
Martin Shuker, KFC Managing Director UK & Ireland, has overseen eight years of consecutive sales and profit growth at the firm. He told The Telegraph that the company will create 1,300 jobs this year and increase its UK and Ireland workforce to 25,300.
KFC UK and Ireland has nearly doubled the number of chicken products it sells to 690m from 379m in 2004. Sales of hot chicken wings have increased from 60m a year to 135m, while overall UK and Ireland revenues have nearly doubled from about £500m to close to £1bn.