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Chicken shortage for KFC

Sarah Stowe

Chicken is still scarce at KFC’s British outlets.

KFC said about 470 of the fried chicken chain’s 900 UK restaurants remain closed on Tuesday because of a chicken shortage.

The company said the disruption started last week, when it changed its delivery provider to DHL.

Australia’s  KFC branches are reportedly unaffected by this.

Open branches are operating on shortened hours or with limited menus.

The fried chicken chain first apologised for the problems on Saturday. It said it expects problems to continue throughout the week.

AAP said the company declined to offer details about what it is doing to address the inadequate chicken supplies.

“We anticipate the number of closures will reduce today and over the coming days as our teams work flat-out all hours to clear the backlog.”