All Roy­al Cas­tle out­lets across the coun­try were fi­nal­ly opened yes­ter­day af­ter they were able to get a prop­er stock of chick­en.

The com­pa­ny was un­able to re­open all restau­rants on Mon­day, the first day of Gov­ern­ment’s phase one of the COVID-19 re­open­ing process.

An ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber of the com­pa­ny said this was due to the fact that the com­pa­ny was un­able to put mea­sures in place to get a stock of chick­en af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley made the an­nounce­ment of the re­open­ing on Sat­ur­day. Row­ley an­nounced that all food out­lets would be al­lowed to re­open af­ter be­ing closed for one month due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic but would on­ly be al­lowed to do pick up ser­vice.

But Roy­al Cas­tle has said this was not enough time to get its sup­pli­er to de­liv­er chick­en to all its out­lets and queried how com­peti­tor KFC man­aged to achieve this in the same time­frame.

How­ev­er, Pres­tige Hold­ings CEO Si­mon Hardy has cred­it­ed his fran­chise's abil­i­ty to restart prompt­ly due to a plan­ning strat­e­gy which saw them putting their chick­en sup­pli­er, Arawak Lim­it­ed, on stand­by. Arawak, in fact, de­liv­ered chick­en to KFC out­lets be­tween Sun­day and Mon­day. Church's Chick­en al­so ap­plied a sim­i­lar plan and got their de­liv­ery of prod­uct in time to open branch­es on Mon­day.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Roy­al Cas­tle said it had re­ceived the chick­en and all restau­rants were re­opened.

Un­der the new reg­u­la­tions, food es­tab­lish­ments are al­lowed to open till 8 pm with no dine-in ser­vices or on-site eat­ing.