Customers in the North East can be among the first in the UK to to try a Popeyes breakfast as the Southern fried chicken company trails its first ever breakfast menu at the Metrocentre .
What's more they can enjoy a tasty treat for free this weekend - if they're quick - as it will be handing out free muffins to its first 50 customers this Saturday to celebrate the launch. The popular American chain, renowned for its Louisiana-style chicken, has picked just two of its UK branch locations for the trail - and Gateshead is one of them.
Besides egg and cheese muffins - with bacon and sausage additions also available - the new menu includes the likes of a Big Breakfast roll, which is a bun with a sausage patty, egg, streaky bacon and American cheese, alongside Cajun hash browns and buttermilk biscuits with cinnamon sugar or nutella. It launched on Tuesday and adds to an array of options on sale at the restaurant which is best known for its 12-hour marinated chicken dishes which are breaded in a secret recipe and fried to create its trademark so-called "shatter-crunch" bite.
