Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q is a quick service restaurant chain in North Carolina serving fried chicken and Eastern North Carolina barbecue, with 41 locations state-wide, as of March 2024.
Starting in the early 1980s, the company opened additional restaurants in eastern North Carolina, and expanded to the Raleigh-Durham area in the 1990s.
In April 2017, a post on the Raleigh Police Protective Association's Facebook page accused employees and a manager of the Smithfield's location in Garner, North Carolina of singing "Fuck tha Police" while officers dined there.
[2] An investigation determined that nobody in the restaurant sang, and that the actual incident consisted of a single employee mouthing the words, "fuck the police", to two police officers at the counter.
The police officers told a friend who later posted an incorrect account on Facebook.