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Top 18 Fried chicken restaurants based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 71 fried chicken restaurants headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 7,535 professional contacts across them, including 303 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers fried chicken restaurants headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 18 largest fried chicken restaurants based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 18 of 71 fried chicken restaurants based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to fried chicken restaurants: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceWoking, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202610001+6,195 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“This is KFC - home of the real ones.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200140 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We're here to make your day with eclectic flavours and brilliant times.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Partial evidenceRuislip, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,000120 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Demipower is a privately-run family business that started in 1989 and is the largest KFC franchisee in the UK operating 120 KFC restaurants across London, Midlands, East Anglia…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Partial evidenceBirmingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,00098 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Here at Slim Chickens we provide Southern U.S.A hospitality to our guests by serving fresh, hand breaded and cooked-to-order chicken that is so delicious, it is life changing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-50082 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Born in London, 1994, Chicken Cottage disrupted the Chicken shop market offering the UK’s first fried and grilled chicken chain which is also halal.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Partial evidenceBirmingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026501-1,00066 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Big Johns is a chain of quick service restaurants across the midlands.Everything we do at Big John's demonstrates our deep-seated foundation of values and illustrates our firm…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20040 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Thunderbird Fried Chicken, originally set up in 2016 with the aim to ‘Make Fried Chicken Great Again’, and although its roots are in street food, in 2018 Trispan’s ‘Rising Stars…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20030 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our story goes way back, 23 years before the first Miss Millie’s even opened.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20020 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Butchies is a fun, bustling Buttermilk Fried Chicken restaurant.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Indirect evidenceClacton-on-sea, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1986, Favorite has consistently demonstrated its success by providing a product menu and operational system to match and exceed any other in sector.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Indirect evidenceExeter, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20015 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“we are passionate about every aspect of what we do.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The legitimate lovechild of Carl Clarke and David Wolankski, the Chick 'N' Sours concept hatched from when the boys met in the fields of Latitude Festival back in 2010.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20013 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Born out of frustration at the lack of high quality fried chicken options in London, Coqfighter began as a night for friends at Troy, Tristan and Deacon’s apartment in South…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Indirect evidenceManchester Manchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Partial evidenceSwindon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-509 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Our menu features crispy chicken wings, strips, cheese stix, tater tots-and much more-served with over 15 mouth-watering flavours all made in-house.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-107 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Baked Bird was born from the back of a food truck, fueled by hustle and a mission to change the fried chicken game.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17Partial evidenceGlasgow, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-506 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Lucky B’s Hot Chicken was created by best friends Giancarlo Celino and Toni Dobrenko after spending time together on holiday in USA.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18Indirect evidenceWimbledon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-505 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“established catering & retail korean food business since 2016”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Fried chicken restaurants based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
4.0%Verified-email coverage
106.1Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
23.9%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
28
11-50
16
51-200
13
201-500
4
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
5
10001+
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 71 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among fried chicken restaurants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “fried chicken restaurants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names fried chicken restaurants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among fried chicken restaurants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 303 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names fried chicken restaurants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many fried chicken restaurants are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 71 fried chicken restaurants headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

KFC UK & Ireland, headquartered in Woking, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most fried chicken restaurants?

London leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (5) and Birmingham (3).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 303 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 71 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.