Fast food restaurant chain KFC have decided to re-open the Braamfontein store after ‘confirming’ that the chicken washing incident was an ‘isolated’ one.

“Having looked into the circumstances at our Braamfontein store, we can confirm that this is an isolated incident involving this store only. This was chicken never intended for sale to customers and at no time was any customer at risk”, Doug Smart, Managing Director, KFC Africa said.

Pictures surfaced on social media Friday morning showing KFC staff removing chicken from boxes, placing it on the floor outside and hosing it down with water.

According to Smart, the chicken seen in the images had not met the company’s quality standards and had been set aside for disposal.

“However the way in which they handled the product to be disposed of definitely did not follow our procedures,” he said.

“We have already dealt very firmly with the owner and responsible people involved,” he said.

This is the reason the company gave to Facebook followers regarding the washing of chicken intended for disposal:

The franchisee required the team to discard product before breading it to avoid breading waste. The team had some waste that they had discarded with breading on it and they were washing it off to hide it from management.