New Popeyes Bristol restaurant opening: Popeyes UK CEO Tom Crowley tells us what to expect

Popeyes is set to open its doors in what was Krispy Kreme at Avonmeads Retail Park on Friday, April 11, from 11am.

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00:00Popeyes is a global brand. We have over four and a half thousand restaurants now around the world.

00:05Bristol Popeyes will be our 76th restaurant in the UK. We've been going for four years in the UK

00:12and we've had just an incredible response so far. So our first restaurant opened in London in 2021.

00:19Literally we had hundreds of people queuing for several hours for about three months.

00:25It's settled down a little bit since then but generally most restaurants will be open

00:29in big cities tend to have a very positive response. This for me is one of the best fried

00:34chicken brands in the world. The product as you've just seen is an incredible product.

00:41All the chicken is fresh. We hand bread every single piece of chicken in a very unique process

00:47to Popeyes. We lift that product 20 times in our own flour in a particular batter mix and

00:54then we float fry it to give this incredible shatter crunch texture. It really makes Popeyes

00:59quite unique in the chicken market. This shatter crunch process is something we've been perfecting

01:05for over 50 years. For us Bristol and I'm from Bristol originally so I've been looking forward

01:12to getting a restaurant in my home city but you know we've been looking for the right place in

01:18Bristol for many years. This one's come up you know this part of Bristol is fantastic for us.

01:24We love this part. I think we're going to do extremely well here and we've got a couple

01:29other restaurants already in the pipeline for Bristol. We have one in Clifton and we have one

01:34in Longwell Green. Both of those will be coming online later this year maybe early next year.

01:38But yeah Bristol's a fantastic city and I wish we'd been here sooner.