KFC to train 500 street vendors in Chennai

CHENNAI: In a bid to raise awareness on the importance of serving safe and hygiene food, KFC India has rolled out a training programme for street vendors in Chennai.

With this, the company has become the first quick-service restaurant to take up the initiative. In the first phase of the project, KFC will train 500 street food vendors in the city over the next five months.

“We consider food safety as a shared responsibility among food regulators and industry players. Through this initiative, we hope to contribute to the larger objective of ensuring health, hygiene and safety standards for consumers,” said Rahul Shinde, managing director, KFC India. Shinde added that the company would consider expanding the programme to other states based on the response from Tamil Nadu.

The training would focus on the key aspects of hygiene, food handling, waste disposal and pest control to help street food vendors adopt food safety practices while serving safe food to consumers.
“This initiative is aimed at capability building among the unorganised sector, which will disseminate content of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s Clean Street Food campaign...” said a company statement.

Welcoming the move by KFC, Pawan Agarwal, CEO of FSSAI, said: “I am happy to see several responsible businesses are coming on-board to support FSSAI’s larger set of capability-building priorities.”