About Us

One Man's Dream

On the 19th of January 2016, Ko-Lay opened its doors as a casual dining restaurant and take away. Ko-Lay foods is the brainchild of Rajen Reddy and has become a symbol of so much more than your normal restaurant created by this visionary and creative entrepreneurs.

Rajen and his Ko-Lay team believe in the bright future of Africa, embracing our cultural diversity and offering equal opportunities for all. Through the Ko-Lay brand, Rajen and his team strives to not only offer the best quality food and excellent customer service but also to stimulate wealth creation by sourcing our chicken and produce from local SMME farmers.

We believe that a great restaurant chain and franchise needs more than world class food, it's also about our top-quality service, dedicated staff, generosity, family values and going the extra mile too that is an integral part of our success story.

Our specialty is our 48-hour marinated flame-grilled peri-peri chicken, though we also offer lemon and garlic, barbeque and vegetarian dishes. Other quick service restaurants just don't serve spicy chicken like this!

Ko-Lay loves Local! Our chicken is freshly supplied by emerging farmers in order to uplift local communities, which allows us to prepare meals to perfection using only the finest and freshest ingredients.

OUR PROMISE

"Whatever and whenever you visit our Ko-Lay stores, you can be assured of superior grade flame grilled goodness. We will continue giving our customers the quality and taste that their palates deserve.”

OUR MISSION & VISION STATEMENT

Vision Statement

The Ko-Lay vision is for us all to have the passion and determination to do what it takes to make Ko-Lay the top chicken brand in the country and to always go the extra mile to do so.

Mission Statement

To innovatively provide outstanding service excellence through utilization best quality food, whilst empowering local SMMEs and developing young budding entrepreneurs.

Our Values

At Ko-Lay, we value transparency, ethical conduct and moral balance, development of talent and communities. We enchor our business on shared-value proposition, with the view of stakeholder support across the value-chain.