Following outcry, KFC says buffet will stay in Weyburn for now
It’s a finger-lickin’ tradition in southeast Sasktachewan, but now the Weyburn KFC may have to stop offering an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Reports that the rare KFC buffet may be ending started a viral uproar on social media as people like Jay Onrait of Fox Sports One and Saskatchewan politicians jumped on the bandwagon in favour of keeping it. Weyburn Mayor Debra Button and Health Minister Dustin Duncan both have fond memories of the buffet, saying they even got their first jobs there in high school.
Larie Semen is the “area coach” or regional manager for the KFC in Weyburn and has been with the company and the location since about 1978. He says Weyburn was the first place to offer a buffet starting in 1988 now it is one of only two locations in Canada, including one in Humboldt.
Now customers are planning to crowd the chain restaurant on Wednesday at noon to match up with a reported visit from the corporate office of Yum Canada which owns the chain and is based in Toronto.