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Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q
Industry Fast food
Founded 1977; 47 years ago (1977)
Founder Junius Moore
Maggie Moore
Headquarters Smithfield, North Carolina
United States

Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q is a quick service restaurant chain in North Carolina serving fried chicken and Eastern North Carolina barbecue, with 41 locations state-wide, as of March 2024. It has more than 41 locations in the state, as well as an online store.

What is now Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q was opened by Junius and Maggie Moore in downtown Smithfield, North Carolina in 1977 as Smithfield Bar-B-Q, soon followed by a second restaurant in nearby Clayton, NC.. The business expanded in 1979 to Salter Path.

Starting in the early 1980s, the company opened additional restaurants in eastern North Carolina, and expanded to the Raleigh-Durham area in the 1990s.

See also

  • List of chicken restaurants
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