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

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and Eastern North Carolina barbecue, with 41 locations state-wide, as of March 2024. It has more than 41 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 Salter Path. Starting in the early 1980s, the company opened additional restaurants in eastern North Carolina, and expanded to the Raleigh-Durham area in the 1990s.

Controversy

In April 2017, a post on the Raleigh Police Protective Association's Facebook page 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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