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Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q serves authentic Southern comfort food featuring fresh, slow-cooked pork barbecue, hand-breaded fried chicken, and classic sides, all delivered with fast service and genuine Carolina hospitality.
About Us
Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q restaurants represent the best in southern dining, great tasting food, fast service, and fantastic hospitality. The anchor to our menu is the best pork barbecue and southern fried chicken in the Carolinas. Our chicken is fresh, not frozen, and we utilize only fresh pork shoulders in our Bar-B-Q. The Bar-B-Q is slow cooked every night at each location to ensure our customers the best taste and quality. We complement the Bar-B-Q and southern friend chicken with a variety of side dishes. These include cole slaw, potato salad, brunswick stew, baked beans, french fries, and hushpuppies. Our menu has been perfected with years of successful operation.
Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q focuses on the quality of food, speed of service, and hospitality. The Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q dining concept combines fast food and table service. This variation of counter service delivers great hospitality without intensive personnel requirements. Guests order at the counter, then are invited to be seated in our dining room. Co-workers rush the orders to the table. This system allows us to deliver a high level of service capable of meeting our customer's expectations and needs efficiently.
The sales mix varies with location. The Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B- Q concept proves successful in all settings; rural, metropolitan, and along interstate highways. We offer our customers the convenience of drive thru, dining in, take-out service, and third party delivery. We believe that sales increases indicate "customer approval" and all restaurants are expected to create positive customer approval ratings daily.
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