Kentucky Fried Chicken Serbia

Eleven herbs and spices are what give Kentucky Fried Chicken bits their special, unique flavour. The recipe is one the world's best kept secrets. It was thought up by Colonel Sanders in the 1930s, in the back room of his gas station in Kentucky, and proved to be the foundation for the corporate empire that now operates restaurants in more than 100 countries across the globe. No way he could have foreseen, back then, that his instantly recognizable logo image - the beard, glasses and red apron - would one day be welcoming guests in far-off Serbia.

In 2010 Mangelberger fitted out the first Serbian KFC Restaurants in Belgrade and Novi Sad with a standardised main distribution board and an integrated energy management system. The controlled operation of kitchen equipment ventilation, air conditioning as well as interior and exterior lighting, tailored to onsite requirements, is to a large extent an automatic process. Restaurant staff can of course, at the touch of a button, switch on the signage or the parking area lighting a bit earlier, or adjust room temperature by up to 2 degrees higher or lower. But during the night such manual adjustments automatically revert to the standard setting.

The first restaurants in Belgrade and Novi Sad also, of course, saw the launch of the energy management system, which is included as a standard component. From the start, therefore, the KFC stage was set for optimum energy controlling and ongoing online reporting.