The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop

[underwriter]

Valued at over £4 billion a year, the fast food industry is big business and even bigger controversy. With its globally recognised but fiercely protected recipe for fried chicken, KFC is one of the brands that has divided public opinion. Love it or hate it, the fact is that very little is known about what goes on behind the scenes. Now for the first time KFC exclusively throws open its doors in a tell-all documentary series. This rich, character-driven, fast-moving series takes viewers into the heart of the company and into the hearts of its loyal and disloyal customers and reveals why we have become addicted to fried chicken and chips. It beds in with the KFC brand, from the boardroom to the kitchen, and reveals the truth about the company that we all think we know.

 

 

 

In the opening episode, we learn how the huge machine that is 'fast food chicken' works on a mass scale. At the top of the tree we meet managing director Martin as he strives to expand his empire of 850 stores nationwide, while keeping his predominantly young workforce motivated.

 

 

 

We follow feisty 17-year-old college dropout Beth, a new starter in Manchester, as she struggles to find her way in her new job. For the first time cameras are allowed inside the chicken farms that supply KFC with a whopping 23 million chickens a year. Here we meet Andrew who, with 35 years experience in the business, is in charge of chicken welfare.

 

 

 

We are on the road with Brian, KFC's own internal policeman, as he patrols his patch in the Midlands and drops in unannounced at KFC stores to inspect their restaurant and food standards. It all goes wrong for a store in Merry Hill, Dudley, and Brian awards them such a low score they are forced into emergency measures and given just weeks to improve or face closure.

 

 

 

In Middleton, we meet angry residents Pat, Irene and John who are desperate to stop a new KFC from opening up on their doorstep and 'lowering the tone'. All this is washed down with Valentine's Day in KFC Havant, as restaurant manager Dom splashes out on a themed night in the hope that romance will come to his store, boost his sales and get him noticed by his company bosses.

While in Glasgow, drama graduate Rico has to deal with raucous customers until the wee hours of the morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BBC IPLAYER:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05n7nt5/the-billion-dollar-chicken-shop-1-the-colonels-chicken

[local]

the kfc jobworths got me angry

 

actually pathetic

 

that kfc in middy did get opened

 

didnt watch the end, they may have said that

 

makin mid out to be a leafy suburb

 

altho i sympathise with the neighbours

 

there is an aldi right next door tho n a couple lively pubs across the road

[NORA BATTY]

how is this programme good viewing who gives a rats arse about kfc and their employees....it didnt enlighten or entertain me in any sense, that inspector guy was kool though got cushty job good on him.