Peterborough gets another KFC

KFC’s a funny one.  It’s always been in the shadow of the golden arches and on the High Street at least, is also overshadowed by Burger King but it’s on the retail parks that KFC earns it’s chicken wings.

Peterborough’s always lacked a serious KFC restaurant.  Ok so it’s had the London Road restaurant for as long as I can remember and it’s starting to show it’s age with a horrendous car park and poor location for most of Peterborough.
More recently we had the KFC built on the outskirts of a land refil site, so on a good day you get a lovely ripe smell of decomposing whatever filling your nostrils.  And that’s just from the restaurant kitchen… sorry, I had to get a joke in there somewhere – I actually don’t mind KFC restaurants and have even partaken in the odd mystery shopper experience there.

Oh, there’s also the Xtra services restaurant on the A1/A605 which has the misfortune of being on the site of one of the most depressing motorway service stations I’ve ever been too.

Back to the point of this post I suppose…well now Peterborough’s getting a brand spanking new KFC on the Brotherhood retail park (opposite the best curry takeaway in Peterborough).  Access to that site has always been a royal pain in the arse but there are plans afoot for Morrisons to rip apart the dual carriageway and install a roundabout so hopefully that will also be used for the retail park itself.

Personally, I’d rather YUM! brands bit the bullet and opened a Taco Bell franchise.  Share the premises with KFC if they’re scared to risk their money on the UK, but just give us tacos damn you!  We’ve already got the Wrapstar which is really a Taco Bell product so someone somewhere has obviously given it some consideration, shame they don’t have the cojones!