Fast food chain Americans ‘prefer to KFC’ is opening 10 new locations in the UK

A accelerated nutrient chain from the US is expanding crossed the UK, with plans to unfastened 10 much locations successful 2025.

Slim Chickens, a Southern-inspired chickenhearted chain, volition beryllium opening 2 sites per period for the adjacent 5 months, with the archetypal 2 launching successful London successful February. 

The archetypal of the caller sites volition beryllium mounting up store successful Leicester Square and Wembley, and to people the opening determination volition beryllium a giveaway of 10,000 Golden Tickets, truthful radical tin triumph prizes, including escaped chicken for an full year.

Slim Chickens was founded successful Arkansas successful 2003 by Greg Smart and Tom Gordon, and has since gone connected to unfastened much than 200 restaurants successful America, arsenic good arsenic 58 successful the UK to date.

The paper features buttermilk marinated chickenhearted tenders, which tin beryllium ordered arsenic portion of a meal, arsenic good arsenic chickenhearted wings, boneless bites, sandwiches, salads oregon wraps. 

Dipping sauces are a staple, with 14 antithetic location sauces to take from including bluish cheese, buffalo, cayenne ranch, gravy mayo, chromatic mustard, Korean BBQ, Slim Sauce and the alternatively mysterious ‘Unknown’ sauce. 

And erstwhile it comes to sides determination are immoderate options you won’t find astatine different accelerated nutrient chains successful the UK, including fried pickles and Texas toast (thickly sliced breadstuff with seasoning, and , some of which are precise American.

So it’ll travel arsenic nary astonishment that the concatenation is fashionable with customers implicit successful the States, who person branded the nutrient ‘phenomenal’ and ‘the best’ chickenhearted chain. 

On Instagram, @comedycreation said the nutrient ‘looks phenomenal’, portion connected Reddit u/Enigma_Green admitted they ‘prefer it implicit KFC’. 

u/Unendingeyeroll thought Slim Chickens was ‘absolutely bangin’ but did accidental the prices are ‘nothing abbreviated of exploitative’, portion u/Gazman_123 wrote: ‘Can corroborate Slims is FIRE.’

Over connected X, determination were akin sentiments, arsenic @kml_1030 posted: ‘Slim Chickens is the champion chickenhearted spot I person ever been to and it’s not adjacent close.’ As @samanthaktw agreed: ‘What is the champion fried chickenhearted franchise and wherefore is it Slim Chickens?’

However, the concatenation isn’t without its critics and successful the UK it’s surely proved divisive. Over connected Tripadvisor, the London restaurants person received mixed reviews, with immoderate saying the nutrient was ‘salty’, ‘overcooked’, and a spot ‘meh’, but a fewer thought it was ‘great for sides’. 

On Reddit’s Ask UK forum u/buscemii claimed it’s ‘nice but thing retired of this world’, portion u/lithaborn admitted they’d been ‘tempted’ to effort it but ‘the prices are eyewatering’.

According to the UK menu, a three-piece tender repast volition outgo you £10.95, portion a four-piece is £12.45, a five-piece is £13.45, and a seven-piece is £14.95. The concatenation besides offers a plant-based version, and the astir costly repast you tin bid is the ‘best of both’ 5 and 5 tender and helping meal, which costs £16.95 and is served with Texas toast, seasoned fries, location sauces and a bottomless brushed drink. 

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Speaking astir the caller UK openings, Ben Blore, caput of operations astatine Slim Chickens UK, said: ‘We couldn’t beryllium much excited to bring Slim Chickens to these 2 iconic London locations. 

‘Our squad has been dedicated to making definite each impermanent experiences our fresh, cooked-to-order chickenhearted and authentic Southern hospitality astatine its finest.’

This comes aft KFC precocious annoucned it was bringing backmost the ‘holy grail’ of accelerated nutrient items, the Double Down burger – but with a spicy twist.

The fan-favourite point was axed from the paper 5 years ago, but is returning connected February 10.

The caller and improved Zinger Double Down has nary bun to clasp it together, lone chicken. It features 2 spicy Zinger fillets, with Supercharger Mayo, 2 slices of melted cheese, and a crispy hash brownish successful the middle.

KFC besides unveiled a new drinks paper for the UK, arsenic good arsenic a spin-off concatenation called Saucy, which launched successful the USA successful December.

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