Kentucky Fried Chicken Gets Hip New Design in UK Stores

Half the charm of dining in a KFC is the plastic-looking furniture, the bright florescent lights and the red/white color scheme. It looks like the fast food company is trying to steer away from that image, at least in the United Kingdom. In an effort to align itself with more upmarket restaurants, KFC has taken to redesigning its interiors to please a more millennial crowd.

The design features butcher block tables, low-hanging copper lighting, exposed ceilings and textured brick-like walls. With gorgeous typography and mouth-watering photos on the walls, you can’t even tell it’s a KFC anymore. Hopefully it still smells like fried chicken, though.

KFC plans to implement these changes in all of its 870 branches in the UK beginning March 2015. So far, there are no plans to redesign the interiors of its US locations. We’re guessing if the newly remodeled stores do well overseas in the next year, we’ll hear something stateside.

H/T HUH