Popeyes® UK is opening a new restaurant in central Glasgow, on July 5, 2024. It will be located on Sauchiehall Street, marking the brand’s 17th opening this year, and the 50th store opening in the UK since its arrival in the country, in November 2021. The brand teamed up with Glasgow’s Boxfresh to create limited-edition pairs of sneakers – branded in Popeyes’ orange, teal, and white – which will be awarded on opening day.

The new Glasgow restaurant will also be the first Popeyes® restaurant in the UK to stay open until midnight from opening day, it announced. The restaurant can seat up to 80 people.

Alongside Popeyes’ signature prize of free Chicken Sandwiches for a year for the first three customers in the queue, the first 50 customers in the Sauchiehall St queue will receive one free Chicken Sandwich and also be in the running for exclusive merchandise – including Popeyes® bucket hats and T-shirts, as well as the custom Popeyes® trainers and Naf! nail sets.

People have previously queued for store openings as early as 25 hours in advance, Popeyes says. Customers queued for 18.5 hours at Popeyes’® first Scottish launch in Barrhead in September 2023. 
In addition to the Popeyes® Chicken Sandwich and biscuits and gravy, the company will also offer its breakfast menu featuring British breakfast classics with a New Orleans twist, such as the Big Cajun breakfast roll, cajun Hash Browns and Nutella-topped buttermilk biscuits. Breakfast will be available until 11 am. 

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