Chicken Cottage International is a UK based fast food

Fast food

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 chain. The company is the Master Franchisor and the owner of "Chicken Cottage" brand. Its taste is modelled on a blend of South Asian and Southern US flavours using halal

Halal

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ingredients. It currently owns and operates 115 locations in the UK.

History

Chicken Cottage International was established in 1994 as a partnership and incorporated in February 2001.

Health and safety

The Company has ISO 9001 - 2000 accreditation for its services to its customers accredited in August 2003 and has been reviewed and successfully accredited annually.

On 4 September 2008, the BBC consumer affairs TV programme Rogue Restaurants identified extremely serious environmental health problems with two London outlets of Chicken Cottage where raw chicken was not kept refrigerated for long periods and products were used after their use by dates. The programme did report that the Chicken Cottage headquarters promised to take remedial action once the BBC had informed them of the problems.

Outlets

The Company has 115 franchisees in the UK, 8 franchisees internationally, and now is expanding to Canada through licensing the trade name and trade-mark to Chicken Cottage Canada Ltd.

Locations include: