A NEW APPLEGREEN service station which is due to open in Naas, Co Kildare later this year will house Ireland\u2019s first Popeyes drive-thru.<\/p>\n
Popeyes is a fried chicken fast-food chain founded in New Orleans in 1972 and headquartered in Miami.<\/p>\n
Its first location on the island of Ireland was at the Forestside Shopping Centre in Belfast, which opened in September 2024.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, its first location in the Republic opened in Blanchardstown Centre in June of this year.<\/p>\n
Popeyes also opened a store at the Midway Applegreen station in Portlaoise, Co Laois in June and is due to open another location at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre soon.<\/p>\n
The Popeyes outlet at the Applegreen Naas will be the chain\u2019s first drive-thru in Ireland, and an additional drive-thru outlet will open at the site this winter.<\/p>\n
The new Applegreen service area, which is costing some \u20ac15 million, will be located close to the Naas Ball at Junction 9 on the M7.<\/p>\n
Applegreen said this site will create 150 new jobs in Naas.<\/p>\n
As well as the first Popeyes drive-thru, the new Applegreen site will also include Taco Bell outlets, M&S Food, Crafted Kitchen & Deli, and an Applegreen forecourt and convenience store.<\/p>\n
The site will also house eight ultra-fast EV chargers with a total of 16 charging points, with a separate truck stop for HGV fuelling.<\/p>\n
Seamus Stapleton, managing director of Applegreen\u2019s Republic of Ireland business, remarked that the company is \u201ccontinuing to invest heavily in the Irish market, as we see significant long-term growth prospects for the Applegreen business\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said there are \u201cseveral additional new sites in the pipeline\u201d and that existing locations are also being upgraded.<\/p>\n
Naas will be Applegreen\u2019s second major new service station in Ireland in the past 12 months, as it opened a \u20ac15 million site at Junction 6 on the M3 in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath last September.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson added that Applegreen is currently investing \u20ac1 billion to grow its operations in Ireland, the UK and the US.<\/p>\n
It expanded to the UK in 2008, and then to the US in 2014.<\/p>\n
Applegreen opened its first service station in Ballyfermot in Dublin in 1992 and now has almost 200 locations in the Irish market.<\/p>\n
It also has over 435 locations across its global network and has more than 180 million customers annually, employing almost 18,000 people during its peak summer period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NEW APPLEGREEN service station which is due to open in Naas, Co Kildare later this year will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[55176,79,18,19,17,3625,16209,169471],"class_list":["post-622324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-applegreen","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-naas","tag-popeyes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117044545353621427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}