{"id":714525,"date":"2026-07-28T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714525\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:02:20","slug":"york-kfc-drive-thru-coming-to-monks-cross-shopping-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714525\/","title":{"rendered":"York KFC drive-thru coming to Monks Cross Shopping Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  An application to install 27 signs featuring KFC branding on the drive-thru which is currently being built at the Monks Cross Shopping Park has been lodged with City of York Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Developers Lionacre stated in their plans that the American fried chicken chain is set to open its new outlet by the Lidl supermarket, in Monks Cross Drive.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes work to build the new drive-thru remains underway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  RECOMMENDED READING:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Construction firm AKN Build Ltd said in a social media post a number of key milestones on the project have been completed in recent weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They include completing putting up the building\u2019s steel frame, installing its roof sheeting and fitting its underground storm and foul water drainage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The firm said on LinkedIn: \u201cA great effort from everyone involved as the project continues to take shape.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe remain ahead of programme and look forward to successfully closing out the project in the coming weeks.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Plans for KFC signs on the drive-thru by Lidl at the Monks Cross Shopping Park, York (Image: KFC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  KFC is currently advertising for staff to work at the drive-thru, with the role of team leader open for applications until Sunday, August 2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The latest plans follow an application which was approved in 2022 to build a KFC drive-thru in the car park of ASDA at Monks Cross.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There has been no update shared publicly on those plans since.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  KFC currently has one outlet in York, in Blossom Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An application to install 27 signs featuring KFC branding on the drive-thru which is currently being built at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}