37 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham
This restaurant has been authorized Halal by an Islamic organization. KFC is running a halal trial a small number of stores in the London area, having worked with the Halal Food Authority (HFA) to understand the requirements involved in supplying and producing halal approved products. HFA has certified KFC's products in these stores, and the store environments, as halal. KFC has also ensured that the halal certified chicken would also meet the rigorous animal welfare standards employed in the UK, and has consulted leading animal welfare groups about this. KFC insists that all poultry is stunned before slaughter. HFA allows the use of a technique called 'stun-to-stun' - a pain free process that makes the animal insensible to pain and suffering. A verse is also recited from the Koran at the point of slaughter by an appropriate person and the poultry will not come into contact with non-halal meat at any point in the supply chain. KFC only buys high quality, Grade A, farm-assured chicken from trustworthy suppliers, and this will not change.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken concept was introduced to Britain in 1965 when the first store opened in Preston. Since then, KFC has expanded its UK & Ireland restaurant network to its current level of over 700 locations, some company operated and some franchised. The achievement of excellent restaurant standards has also resulted in the British operation acting as a training base for many of the new KFC restaurants operating throughout Europe.
37 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham
Very happy to hear the kfc in kings heath was the first halal one in uk. So excited as I had been to the one's in Saudi
If KFC really halal ok the certificate is there but heres the issue. HFA (halal food association) have approved the certificate, but the HMC (halal monitoring committee) refuse to. It all comes down to the audit. HFA just audit the place, chk the suppliers and make sure everything is halal whereas HMC visits the supplier and tries to go further down the food chain all the way to the slaughter houses & Farms. Mainly the chickens are stunned and if they die on the line they are not removed which is deemed haram!