Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q facts for kids
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| Industry | Fast food |
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| Founded | 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 39 locations country-wide, as of May 1, 2020. It has more than 39 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.
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