“There is a desire to set up Compiègne», Enthuses Tony Custodio, project manager. THE KFC restaurant comes fromdoorsin city centerin Commercial gallery of the market-aux-herbesTuesday April 15. A resolutely festive opening, with red cars, smoke bodies, balloons, red carpets…
KFC, that means Kentucky Fried Chicken. This chain of fast food specialized in the fried chicken. That it declines to all sauces. Twenty years ago, a first restaurant opened in the Compiegnois, in Jaux commercial area.
Two decades later, a second restaurant proved to be necessary to meet the demand of local customers. “For the past two and a half years, we have been looking for a second location in Compiègne,” recalls Tony Custodio. To “unclog” the other restaurant, one hundred seats. ” The Place du Marché-aux-Herbes restaurant offers 115 seats.
Twenty employees recruited
With the owner François Guérin, who has a dozen restaurants of the brand, Tony Custodio and Amandine Potino, future director of the restaurant, imagined the project. They recruited around twenty employees, through France work, the CFA of Compiègne, the ESC of commerce (BTS Alternation Management).
They were both team members, the first step in the professional hierarchy of KFC. Before spending manager, manager manager, deputy director and director. If Tony Custodio supervises the two restaurants in Compiegnois, Sonia Goupil directs that of Jaux and Amandine Potino that of the city center.
“Together, we developed Jaux,” recalls Tony Custodio. And there, in the city center of Compiègne, we left on a white sheet, with technical constraints. To arrange a room with an original configuration, in U. ”
Tuesday, April 15, first opening day, the restaurant recorded 473 transactions, a minimum customer. “Difficult for the moment to assess the proportion of sales to take away or on site,” says Tony Custodio. But the goal is that you feel good in this restaurant. It is a place of well-being. ”
