KUALA LUMPUR — KFC has reduced its operations in Malaysia, shuttering more than 100 restaurants temporarily after months of a persistent pro-Palestine boycott of US-linked businesses triggered by the ongoing war in Gaza.
Empty boxes and a deserted shop lot are all of what remains of a former thriving KFC outlet in Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur.
A source at QSR, who declined to be named, said the company sees the boycott as an opportunity to cease some of the KFC store operations that have weighed on its balance sheet. "KFC is not on the BDS list of targeted companies. But many Malaysians see any American fast food operator to be related to Israel including KFC," Professor Mohd Nazari Ismail, chairman of pro-Palestinian group Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Malaysia, told ST.
QSR also operates KFC restaurants in Singapore, Brunei and Cambodia, as well as more than 480 Pizza Hut stores in Malaysia and Singapore.
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