News: Popeyes opens in Rotherham
American fried chicken restaurant Popeyes UK opened the doors to its first ever Drive-Thru restaurant, with over 50 cars queuing in Rotherham.
The Drive-Thru officially opened at 11am on Monday 15th May at Parkgate Shopping Park, with the launch seeing customers queue the length of 2 football pitches throughout the retail park for its famous Chicken Sandwiches.
The first few lucky customers through the door on day one, won the ultimate prize of free Chicken Sandwiches for a whole year, and the first 25 vehicles within the drive-thru lane and the first 25 pedestrians in the eat-in queue were rewarded with a free Chicken Sandwich and exclusive car-themed Popeyes UK merchandise.
Elizabeth and Victoria Adeosun, mother and daughter local to Rotherham, were the first through the drive-thru and Jamie Poon the first pedestrian through the doors of the new restaurant, bagging themselves free Chicken Sandwiches for a year after queuing from 4am this morning.
Victoria, the winner of free Chicken Sandwiches for a year, said: “I have been to both the Leicester and London Popeyes restaurants, so when I heard that Popeyes was opening near home, I had to be one of the first in the queue, so I made my mum [Elizabeth] get up and come to the opening.”
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Jamie Poon, winner of free Chicken Sandwiches for a year, added: “I found out about the competition a few months ago on Twitter and I have been keeping an eye on updates of the Rotherham opening ever since. I arrived at 4am and I can’t wait to try my first ever Popeyes Chicken Sandwich.”
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Not only that, to celebrate the launch of its new breakfast menu, Popeyes UK will also be offering free breakfast muffins to the first 25 cars in the queue at the new drive-thru tomorrow. to celebrate its first breakfast service. Breakfast will start at 8am, with food including the mouth-watering big breakfast roll, cajun hash browns and indulgent nutella-topped buttermilk biscuits.
Neil Williamson, Chief Operating Officer at Popeyes UK said: “We’ve seen some great excitement for the Rotherham launch with fans queuing up from 4am for our Chicken Sandwich. We can’t wait to see the buzz continue to grow and for more people to try the Popeyes ‘shatter crunch’ for themselves. We will also be launching the breakfast menu at the Rotherham drive-thru and we’re looking forward to seeing how this is received as the breakfast offering becomes a staple at more of our restaurants across the UK.”
Popeyes UK website
Images: Popeyes UK
The Drive-Thru officially opened at 11am on Monday 15th May at Parkgate Shopping Park, with the launch seeing customers queue the length of 2 football pitches throughout the retail park for its famous Chicken Sandwiches.
The first few lucky customers through the door on day one, won the ultimate prize of free Chicken Sandwiches for a whole year, and the first 25 vehicles within the drive-thru lane and the first 25 pedestrians in the eat-in queue were rewarded with a free Chicken Sandwich and exclusive car-themed Popeyes UK merchandise.
Elizabeth and Victoria Adeosun, mother and daughter local to Rotherham, were the first through the drive-thru and Jamie Poon the first pedestrian through the doors of the new restaurant, bagging themselves free Chicken Sandwiches for a year after queuing from 4am this morning.
Victoria, the winner of free Chicken Sandwiches for a year, said: “I have been to both the Leicester and London Popeyes restaurants, so when I heard that Popeyes was opening near home, I had to be one of the first in the queue, so I made my mum [Elizabeth] get up and come to the opening.”
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Jamie Poon, winner of free Chicken Sandwiches for a year, added: “I found out about the competition a few months ago on Twitter and I have been keeping an eye on updates of the Rotherham opening ever since. I arrived at 4am and I can’t wait to try my first ever Popeyes Chicken Sandwich.”
Recommended reading: Should More Rotherham Businesses Try Freebie Promotions? Mardi Gras style band, the Brass Funkeys, who have performed at Glastonbury and Ronnie Scott's, provided a New Orleans party vibe as the doors were opened for the first time, alongside an orange carpet, hundreds of freebies and limited-edition car-themed merchandise handed out to those attending the official launch.
Not only that, to celebrate the launch of its new breakfast menu, Popeyes UK will also be offering free breakfast muffins to the first 25 cars in the queue at the new drive-thru tomorrow. to celebrate its first breakfast service. Breakfast will start at 8am, with food including the mouth-watering big breakfast roll, cajun hash browns and indulgent nutella-topped buttermilk biscuits.
Neil Williamson, Chief Operating Officer at Popeyes UK said: “We’ve seen some great excitement for the Rotherham launch with fans queuing up from 4am for our Chicken Sandwich. We can’t wait to see the buzz continue to grow and for more people to try the Popeyes ‘shatter crunch’ for themselves. We will also be launching the breakfast menu at the Rotherham drive-thru and we’re looking forward to seeing how this is received as the breakfast offering becomes a staple at more of our restaurants across the UK.”
Popeyes UK website
Images: Popeyes UK
10 comments:
Queuing from 4am for a chicken sandwich? Takes all sorts
If it made them happy good for them!
I was there second in standing queue, we were there that early to get the years supply, if there were already people there we'd have gone home
Is the years supply,one a week?
And was the food any good? Or is it just overpriced KFC?
Well I for one am not at all happy. Me and our lass started queuing at 2am a fortnight ago as someone in her Weight Watchers class told her they were giving away free chicken wings for the heaviest pair in the queue. So we had been in training at the burger van and were confident that we would top 40 stone together. Anyway about 3am on opening day we both got delly belly from a dodgy kebab and had to go for a dump. When we got back all the freebies had gone so they can stuff their chicken as far as we're concerned.
I'm not happy either. I queued overnight and woke to find someone had taken a dump in my sleeping bag.
Sorry, we thought it was one of those new fangled chemical toilet things.
That happened to me when I was queuing overnight for the opening of the all day Greggs in Chesterfield. It was worth it though cos I got two sausage rolls to take into the casino.
Just gotta try it
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