{"id":494148,"date":"2026-06-11T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494148\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:11:10","slug":"applegreen-to-create-450-jobs-in-e6m-investment-to-bring-popeyes-to-service-stations-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494148\/","title":{"rendered":"Applegreen to create 450 jobs in \u20ac6m investment to bring Popeyes to service stations \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forecourt operator Applegreen <\/a>says it will create 450 jobs around the State as it invests \u20ac6 million in opening Popeyes <\/a>restaurants at its roadside locations over the next four years.<\/p>\n

The company has agreed a partnership with the franchise holder, Popeyes UK and Ireland, to expand the chicken restaurant to its service stations, with the first opening its doors in the next few weeks at Junction 17 on the M7 at Portlaoise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to add Popeyes to our growing portfolio of high-quality brands in the Irish market,\u201d said Seamus Stapleton, managing director of Applegreen\u2019s Republic of Ireland business. <\/p>\n

\u201cPopeyes is a fantastic addition to the Applegreen offer and we can\u2019t wait to open our first Popeyes outlet at Midway later this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal follows the opening of the chicken restaurant chain\u2019s first Irish outlet in Blanchardstown on June 6th. A second is expected to open soon in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe partnership will allow us to reach more consumers on the move and marks an exciting milestone in our journey to bring our much-loved shatter crunchin\u2019 chicken to Irish customers,\u201d said Popeyes UK and Ireland chief development officer, Tom Byng.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u2018No profit and crap governance\u2019 \u2013 is Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?<\/p>\n

Applegreen already works with Popeyes in the US, operating 24 of its restaurants at locations in Delaware, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Popeyes has around 5,400 restaurants in 50 countries worldwide, with annual sales of $8 billion. It entered the UK market in 2021 and now has more than 110 restaurants there, employing 3,500 people. <\/p>\n

Applegreen is investing significantly in expanding its business both in Ireland further afield. It has also Taco Bell<\/a> to its forecourts here, opening its first location last year in the M3 service area in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath, and has a longer-standing partnership with Marks & Spencer<\/a> food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forecourt operator Applegreen says it will create 450 jobs around the State as it invests \u20ac6 million in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30734,72,61,60,33160,150837,4860],"class_list":["post-494148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-applegreen","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-marks-spencer-ms","tag-popeyes","tag-taco-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494148","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=494148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}