Company Policies

Please click on the policy below you wish to view. It will open a PDF document in a new browser tab.

About Gunret Foods

Gunret Foods (Pty) Ltd is an independently owned and operated KFC franchise with 50 KFC outlets in South Africa, the majority located in Gauteng, with others in Rustenburg and Cape Town. Burt Gunning founded the group in 1985 with one store in Rustenburg. Today 40 years later, it is owned by the Gunning family with his son Alex Gunning at the helm and is a multi-franchise group and employing over 1300 staff around the country. The group offers full-service Drive Thru in many of the restaurants, with convenient kiosks in-store, online ordering for instore collection and delivery via the KFC App.

A constant commitment to customer service and operational excellence has resulted in the Gunret Group winning many awards over the years.

Some of the recent outstanding achievements have been:

1. 2025 Global Franchise Award nomination – Heart-Led Leader
2. 2024 Heart-led Leader RGM of the Year winner
3. 2023 KFC Distinctive and Delightful Customer Experience International Award
4. 2023 Best of Pretoria – Takeaway Chicken
5. 2022 Digital Leader of the Year Winner
6. 2022 Delivery Store of the Year Winner
7. 2021 RGM of the Year 2nd place
8. 2021 Delivery Restaurant RGM of the Year 2nd place
9. 2021 Operator of the Year Award
10. 2021 Digital Leader Award
11. 2020 Nomination RGM of the Year Global
12. 2019 Franchise of the Year winner
13. 2019 People Grower of the Year winner
14. 2019 Culture Champion in Training

Gunret Foods is one of the few franchisees to have won Franchise of the Year four times and Developer and People Developer of the Year multiple times.

The franchise group was one of nine franchisees in the world nominated to represent Africa in 2018 as Operator of the Year at the KFC International Franchise Awards in Orlando, United States out of 23,000 restaurants and 28 countries in the world. This was a great honour for the company and for KFC South Africa.

"These awards reflect the hard work and dedication of our great staff. The real pleasure for us lies in providing outstanding customer satisfaction and the awards are a natural result of this" says Alex Gunning.