{"id":163720,"date":"2025-11-28T05:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T05:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:36:14","slug":"kfc-says-planning-system-is-an-obstacle-to-its-e105m-expansion-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163720\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC says planning system is an obstacle to its \u20ac105m expansion in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Chain, which will open new flagship store on Grafton Street next month, is \u2018optimistic\u2019 about its Irish business<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rob Swain is KFC\u2019s general manager in Ireland and the UK. Photo: Chris Ratcliffe\/Parsons Media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Rob Swain.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rob Swain is KFC\u2019s general manager in Ireland and the UK. Photo: Chris Ratcliffe\/Parsons Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The planning system is proving to be an obstacle to the expansion of KFC, as it aims to open 25 more restaurants in Ireland as part of a \u20ac105m investment plan over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rob Swain, the chain\u2019s general manager in Ireland and the UK, said the difficulty with planning and licensing has been experienced particularly in Dublin, where KFC will open a flagship store on Grafton Street on December 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chain, which will open new flagship store on Grafton Street next month, is \u2018optimistic\u2019 about its Irish business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,5243,43],"class_list":["post-163720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}