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KFC bringing jobs and fast-food to Woodley

July 23, 2010

Fast food fans are being asked to help a takeaway company in its search to find the best place to start up a new restaurant in Woodley.

KFC has confirmed it is looking to set up a branch in the area but wants local people to help decide its location.

The announcement follows rumours, which were voiced at a Woodley Town Centre Management Initiative (WTCMI) meeting last Wednesday, a new takeaway restaurant will move into the Lloyds Pharmacy in Crockhamwell Road when it relocates to a new unit in the town centre in Library Parade.

The fast food chain has said it is looking for potential sites to provide residents of Woodley and Wokingham with not only hot southern fried chicken but also around 30 new jobs.

Nina Arnott, KFC spokeswoman, said: “We’d love to open new Drive Thru restaurants in the area, and are currently looking for sites in both Woodley and Wokingham, although we haven’t been able to find any suitable locations yet.

“A new restaurant would create around 30 jobs in the community, and we’d love to hear from anybody with any news of potential Drive Thru sites, specifically in and around the Shepherds Hill, London Road and Wokingham Road locations.”

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To be a member of the working class, you have to be working. If you aren't working and hang around fast food joints, then you are a chav. Probably with a staffordshire bull terrier, a permanent scowl and several "baby mothers".

Big D
28/07/2010 at 09:16

So if you visit KFC you must be a chav (offensive term aimed at the working class by other members of the working class who think they're a cut above). A lot of people who comment on here really ought to ditch the classism and stop making sweeping generalizations. Btw, I don't personally do burgers or KFC, or live in Woodley, and know very little about this subject and care less.

Nigel P
27/07/2010 at 10:52

So is Moonlight Indian next door. Sorry to upset you, but you do have a rubbish user name, as do I. Don't worry about PCWatch, he never leaves the treacle mines of Tadley.

Bigboy, woodley
27/07/2010 at 10:01

@ PC Watch Is the milieu of your locality so very different from Woodley? I wasn't aware of a cultural mecca in Reading. I'd love to visit.

ps Chicken wings from Chicken 'n' Pizza on Hudson Road are proper tasty

I don't have a rubbish username
27/07/2010 at 09:30

Not all Woodley residnets are chavs or live in council estates PC Watch so watch your manners before typing.

whyohwhyohwhy, Reading
27/07/2010 at 07:51

Asc a lower middle class chav dad from Woodley I recokon the old car warehouse building next to the Texaco Garage is ideal, near the George pub and cinema, plenty of parking and big catchment area of Winnersh, Woodley Earley Sindlesham,,,,, and while you are at it PCWatch from your comment you must feel Middle Class or higher to post such comments from Cav Heights or Alexandra Road or wherever you Middle classes hang out hahaha

Fanad Man, Reading
26/07/2010 at 21:52

Totally agree with PCWATCH. KFC`s perfect. Give the folk of woodley something else for that bubble they all live in!!

peoplespoet, Reaing
26/07/2010 at 20:44

The old Rover garage next to the Texaco and George pub at Loddon bridge would be an ample location if they helped sort out that entire set of traffic lights, AND (with amphasis) made sure to clean up the rubbish that would no doubt find its way into Riverside park.

Atomic Tom
26/07/2010 at 19:29

The amount of class hatred you see in these comments sections is extraordinary! Constantly going on about 'chavs' and 'proles' is a sign of somebody who's none too confident in their own social status. For heaven's sake, grow up and join the 21st century.

Daniel in Reading
26/07/2010 at 18:50

Knock down the Oakwood Centre and put it there. The architecture would be an improvement.

Bigboy, woodley
26/07/2010 at 17:17

whooo got to be the roundabout sheperds house hill! empty units there near frankie and bennys! i think its a good idea there is nothing in woodley , lower earley has a macdonalds that seems to work well.

Monkity, Reading
26/07/2010 at 16:20

Off topic (and irrelevant) but my grandad is the spitting image of the colonel!! But he won't tell me what those 11 herbs & spices are... ;o)

Brad From-Birch Hill, Bracknell
26/07/2010 at 15:58

No do not let them move in, next we'll have Mcdonalds and all the other chav hang outs. I hope Woodley Council turn down any application received. Fast Food chains are not required in Woodley.

RYF, Royal County of Berkshire
26/07/2010 at 15:29

The old lex garage at the top of Shepherds Hill would be good as they would get all the A$ traffic passing through and it would still be close enough to Woodley folk who want it, and out of the way to thos who don't.