Fast food it wasn’t but it was all in a good cause.
Hundreds of hungry fried chicken fans queued for up to an hour to help celebrate a Huddersfield takeaway’s 30th anniversary.
Marstons Chicken Shop in Leeds Road, Bradley, turned 30 on Wednesday and all week portions of chicken legs and chips were just £1 over lunchtime.
And all the proceeds will be donated to Kirkwood Hospice.
The tasty special offer, which ends tomorrow, has seen long queues out of the door, into the car park and up Leeds Road.
The week started steadily enough but a story in the Examiner on Wednesday saw the shop inundated.
On Thursday the lunchtime queues didn’t look that long but big telephone orders from local firms meant the wait was up to an hour.
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Hazel Dransfield, one of the partners, said: “It’s just been fantastic and I would like to thank our staff and customers for their hard work and patience.
“All the staff have been marvellous. We could only go as fast as the machines. It’s not an easy job!
“Some people had to wait an hour and we’ve had queues out up Leeds Road. We didn’t expect it to be so successful.”
Hazel, who set up the business with her farmer dad John Marston in 1985, said that they served a staggering 725 portions on Thursday alone.
“We haven’t counted up for the whole week so far but there will be a big cheque to present to Kirkwood Hospice,” she said.
“The telephone was going mad with orders and at times we were struggling to keep up with the orders. Fortunately we didn’t run out of chicken.”
Hazel said she had no regrets running the offer for six days and would do something similar again in the future.
“It’s all gone totally mad but Kirkwood Hospice will love it!” she added.
The offer runs between 11.30am and 3.30pm tomorrow.
