INTERNATIONAL fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has started up the worldwide Pizza Hut franchise in Fiji, five years after KFC opened its doors here.
A Pizza Hut outlet will open for business on Thursday at the newly-built KFC complex in Laucala Beach Estate.
A senior KFC executive confirmed there were plans to open other Pizza Hut outlets in the country.
Meanwhile, a second KFC outlet also opened for business at the Laucala Beach complex on Saturday.
The outlet’s general manager Saiyad Ali said the new shop had a drive-thru - a feature that KFC’s central city outlet in Thompson Street didn’t have.
Mr Ali said the drive-thru made it easier for customers.
We thought of having the drive thru as customers were demanding for it. In our shop in Suva there is no drive through. Customers have to park in front of the shop in the parking lots, Mr Ali said.
He said the Laucala Beach Estate location was chosen because there were no fast food restaurants nearby and the population in the area was the largest in the city.
Nasinu has got the largest population in this area. There wasn’t any good fast food restaurant around this place so we just tried to cater for the people of Nasinu and nearby areas, he said. Mr Ali said 60 staff had been trained for the past two months to form a customer friendly team that would cater for both drive-thru and eat-in customers.
ravikash on July 13th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
this new kfc in laucala beach in center point is so poor. first the cash regeister is not working in pizza hut,so i order a 2 chicken pizza they said it took them to cook 15 minutes so i waited and it took more than 1 hour than i said all right may be new staff , so i went to home i was going than it was pork (ham) i dont eat pork so i give to my dogs. that night me and my family sleep with out dinner . pease please improve your service KFC