Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q is a

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serving fried chicken and Eastern North Carolina barbecue, with 39 locations country-wide, as of May 1, 2020. It has more than 39 locations in the state, as well as an online store. What is now Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q was opened by Junius and Maggie Moore in downtown Smithfield, North Carolina in 1977 as Smithfield Bar-B-Q, soon followed by a second restaurant in nearby Clayton, NC.. The business expanded in 1979 to

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. Starting in the early 1980s, the company opened additional restaurants in eastern North Carolina, and expanded to the

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area in the 1990s.

Controversy

In April 2017, the Raleigh Police Protective Association accused employees and a manager of the Smithfield's location in Garner, North Carolina of singing "

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" while officers dined there. An investigation determined that nobody in the restaurant sang, and that the actual incident consisted of a single employee mouthing the words, "fuck the police", to two police officers at the counter. The police officers told a friend who later posted an incorrect account on Facebook.

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