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| Kentucky Fried Chicken <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;"></td></tr> | |
| Type | Subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. |
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| Founded | South Salt Lake, Utah |
| Headquarters | Louisville, Kentucky
<tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Col. Harland Sanders</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Restaurants</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th><td>Fast food, including chicken and related Southern foods</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Employees</th><td>750,000</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>kfc.com</td></tr> |
KFC (full name Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc., and is based in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Founded by Col. Harland Sanders, KFC is known mainly for its fried chicken.
Sanders first served his fried chicken during the Great Depression at a gas station he owned in Corbin, Kentucky, and later at a restaurant and motel he bought across the street. He generally served travelers, often those headed to Florida, so when plans for the new Interstate Highway System in the 1950s failed to include Corbin, he sold his properties and began to travel the United States to sell his chicken to restaurant owners. Sanders entered into agreements where he would receive five cents for each piece of chicken sold.<ref>http://www.courier-journal.com/foryourinfo/010305/010305.html</ref><ref>http://roadtrip.beimers.com/day99.html</ref><ref>http://www.agilitynut.com/eateries/8b.html</ref> The first to take him up on the offer was Pete Harman<ref>http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595057690,00.html</ref> in South Salt Lake, Utah; together, they opened the world's first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" outlet in 1952. (The Corbin businesses did not bear that name.) Sanders sold the entire KFC franchising operation in 1964 for $2 million, and it has since been sold three more times, most recently to PepsiCo, which made it part of its Tricon Global Restaurants division, now known as Yum! Brands, Inc. In 1997, Tricon was spun off from PepsiCo.
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[edit] Name
The company adopted the abbreviated form of its name in 1991 for three reasons: to de-emphasize chicken (since the chain was moving to offer other foods), to avoid the unhealthy connotations of the word "fried", and because a shorter name was considered more appealing to the youth market.
When the name changed, an urban legend arose that the move was necessary because KFC was using a genetically modified animal that could not be considered a chicken.<ref>http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp</ref> The site Snopes, generally considered a reference on urban legends, added to the confusion by releasing a spoof page saying that Kentucky had trademarked its own name, asking therefore royalties from any song or commerce that used it.
In French-speaking Quebec, Canada, KFC is known as PFK (Poulet Frit Kentucky); this is one of the few instances in which the KFC initialism is changed for the local language (even in France itself, it's called KFC). In Puerto Rico and Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, KFC is known as PFK (Pollo Frito Kentucky). In the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead, which was filmed in Canada but is set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there is a goof where the survivors eat from the KFC restaurant in the mall and one of the soda cups actually reads PFK.
Recently, the company has begun to re-embrace the Kentucky Fried Chicken name, and now uses both "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and "KFC" in its advertisements. The Kentucky Fried Chicken name/logo can be seen on some buckets of chicken. As of 2006 KFC.com now uses Kentucky Fried Chicken for the logo.
In 2006, KFC unveiled a new logo and created the first sign that can be seen from space. The logo is in a Nevada desert. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229308,00.html</ref>
[edit] Food
[edit] Secret recipe
The Colonel's "secret recipe" of eleven herbs and spices is marketed as one of the best-kept trade secrets in business. The original handwritten recipe is suggested to be locked securely in a vault in Louisville, with partial copies stored elsewhere as backup.[citation needed] The company claims that suppliers of the seasonings each provide only parts of the recipe, and do not know each other's identity. KFC also claims that not even the company's president knows the ingredient list, and the few people who do are subject to a strict confidentiality agreement.[citation needed] The "secret ingredient" myth is one of the cornerstones of the brand. Several people have contacted KFC, claiming to have found copies of the recipe, but KFC claims that none have been correct. A couple who purchased the Colonel's original home found another handwritten recipe in the basement, and, although it was written by Sanders, it was determined to be nothing like the original.[citation needed]
Some people think that what gives KFC chicken its distinctive taste is that, after being coated, it is cooked in hot oil in a pressure cooker instead of a conventional deep fryer [citation needed]. However, on his Food Network show Good Eats, Alton Brown stated the pressure cooker and oil only make the cooking time shorter. Alton states that The Colonel believed that properly fried chicken should take at least 45 minutes. However, this was too long for most restaurant operations. According to Brown on Good Eats, the pressure cooker shortens the cooking time but probably does not add any special flavor to the chicken. On the other hand, it does not adversely affect the flavor, either. As with the secret Coca-Cola formula, the stories surrounding the recipe for KFC also serve a marketing purpose, with the company playing heavily on the mystery surrounding The Colonel's secret recipe.
In 1983, writer William Poundstone tackled the recipe in his book Big Secrets. He reviewed Sanders' patent application, and advertised in college newspapers for present or former employees willing to share their knowledge.<ref name="Poundstone1">Poundstone, William; Big Secrets: The Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know; Quill, New York 1983, 18-20.</ref> From the former he deduced that Sanders had diverged from other common fried-chicken recipes by varying the amount of oil used with the amount of chicken being cooked, and starting the cooking at a higher temperature (about 400º F (202º C)) for the first minute or so and then lowering it to 250º F (120° C) for the remainder of the cooking time. Several of Poundstone's contacts also provided samples of the seasoning mix, and a food lab found that it consisted solely of sugar, flour, salt, black pepper and monosodium glutamate (MSG). He concluded that it was entirely possible that, in the years since Sanders sold the chain, later owners had begun skimping on the recipe to save costs (Sanders himself had been highly critical of changes made to the gravy).<ref name="Poundstone2">Poundstone, op. cit., 20-21.</ref>
[edit] Other menu items
Beyond the fried chicken, KFC also serves side dishes like coleslaw, various potato-based items (including potato wedges, whipped (mashed), and potatoes with gravy), biscuits, corn on the cob and, outside of the U.S., french fries and poutine. KFC also offers other entrées such as Popcorn Chicken, pot pies, chicken strips, hamburgers, pork ribs, flavored wings, sandwiches and a variety of desserts — though not all may be found in all locations, particularly in non-U.S. locations. Some sides are also available only in a particular region.
In the summer of 2006, KFC introduced the "Famous Bowl", a bowl layered with mashed potatoes or rice, gravy, cheese, corn and popcorn chicken. The bowl had been available at KFC's special test market store in Louisville since the Fall of 2005.
[edit] Controversy
Image:Kurczaki bikini 1071038.jpg In New Zealand, television advertisements for the chain featured the slogan "Kiwi For Chicken". In 2002 Greenpeace created a fake website dubbing KFC "Kiwi For Cheapskates", and KFC responded with a lawsuit against a news website which had run ads linking to that fake site.<ref>http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/truefood/newsdetail.asp?PRID=768</ref>
On October 16, 2003, Playboy model and actress Pamela Anderson joined PETA in their animal rights campaign against KFC urging consumers to boycott the franchise until better treatment of its chickens is ensured.
On June 3, 2004, the FTC and KFC came to a settlement regarding KFC's advertising campaign claiming that "fried chicken can, in fact, be part of a healthy diet." The terms of the agreement were not disclosed; however, the TV commercials stopped airing after the settlement.<ref>http://www.kfc.com/about/pr/060304.htm</ref>
On July 20, 2004, PETA released a video of cruelty to chickens taken at Pilgrim's Pride, one of KFC's suppliers in West Virginia. The supplier stated that it would investigate the claims. Pilgrim's Pride fired eleven employees following the release of the video and provided ethical animal-handling training to its work force; however, none of the employees involved in the incident faced any criminal charges.
On January 26, 2006, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher refused Pamela Anderson's PETA-backed demand to remove a statue of Colonel Sanders from the Kentucky Capitol Building after Yum! Brands and Churchill Downs announced an agreement that Yum! would become the main sponsor of the Kentucky Derby. A few days later, Anderson announced she would not attend the horse race again.
A few countries (such as India) have discovered that the MSG levels in KFC foods exceeded their regulations.<ref>http://www.icmr.icfai.org/casestudies/catalogue/Business%20Ethics/KFC.htm</ref> An average 2% MSG is found in most analyses of KFC food.[citation needed]
On June 13, 2006, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued KFC, alleging that it used excessively high levels of trans fat oil in its fried items. The lawsuit was later rescinded.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13295802/</ref><ref>http://www.cspinet.org/new/200606121.html</ref><ref>http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/final_complaint.pdf</ref> After 2 years of research, the chain announced on October 30 that its chicken would be fried in a special trans-fat-free soybean oil in all of its U.S. restaurants beginning in April 2007, with its international franchises to follow suit.<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2006-10-29-kfc-transfat-usat_x.htm</ref> KFC's Canadian division announced on the same day that it had begun phasing in canola oil in its restaurants. <ref>http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth/story.html?id=7231cc59-169a-4581-9712-5e7365342cd8&k=90509</ref>
Customer reports have shown that the change to a trans-fat free oil has not affected the taste of the chicken in a negative way. Most of the new customers have said that the taste is either the same or better. Although the taste has not been affected in a negative way, customers have commented on how the chicken is less moist. This might be a problem down the road as many conservative KFC customers resist the change and seem to tenderly enjoy the moistness of the current chicken recipe.
[edit] Advertising
Early TV commercials for KFC regularly featured Colonel Sanders licking his fingers & talking to the viewer about his secret recipe and the importance of a family joining one another for a meal. Despite his death in 1980, this angle was quite common through the 1980s and up until the early-mid 1990s.
Throughout the mid 1980s, KFC called on Vinton Studios to produce a series of humorous, claymation ads. These most often featured a cartoon-like chicken illustrating the poor food quality of competing food chains, mentioning prolonged freezing and other negative aspects.[1]
By the late 1990s, the stylized likeness of Colonel Sanders as the KFC logo had been modified. KFC ads began featuring an animated version of "the Colonel" with a lively and enthusiastic attitude. He would often start out saying "The Colonel here!" and moved across the screen with a cane in hand. The Colonel was often shown dancing, singing, and knocking on the TV screen as he spoke to the viewer about the product at hand.
The animated Colonel is uncommon today. Still using a humorous slant, the current KFC campaign revolves mostly around customers enjoying the food. It also features a modified version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" as the theme song for practically all its commercials, though the restaurant hails from Kentucky.
In 2006, KFC claimed to have made the first logo visible from outer-space. [2] "[It] marked the official debut of a massive global re-image campaign that will contemporize 14,000-plus KFC restaurants in over 80 countries over the next few years." The logo was built from 65,000 one square foot tiles, and it took 24 days to complete. The logo measured a record-breaking 87,000 square feet and was placed in Rachel, Nevada, "UFO capital of the world".On November 15, 2006, there was a contest to win a free KFC Snacker Sandwich if one could find the secret message in the giant logo mentioned above. The hidden message was "finger lickin good". It was found in the small white spot on the Colonel's tie, which was actually an "impostor" Colonel holding a sign.
[edit] Slogans
- There's fast food, then there's KFC<ref>http://www.kfc.com/about/</ref>
- Finger lickin' good!<ref>http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/137325.html</ref>
- This was once translated into Chinese as "eat your fingers off"<ref>http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031124-543845,00.html</ref>
- Nobody Does Chicken Like KFC! (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and UK)<ref>http://www.taglineguru.com/sloganlist.html</ref>
- Can't Beat that Taste! (2005/06 - Australia and New Zealand)<ref>http://www.kfc.com.au/</ref>
- Kiwi For Chicken (2004/05 - New Zealand)
- I Can't Wait - for the great taste of Kentucky Fried Chicken (Late 80s - Australia)
- Today's KFC I Like It Like That (1993)
- Everybody Needs a little KFC. (1990s - United States) <ref>http://www.solidarity-us.org/atc/99Lyons.html</ref>
- If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me (1969, sung by Colonel Sanders)
- If you can fry chicken like this - why cook? (1970)
- Barrel of fun (1970s)
- Real goodness from Kentucky Fried Chicken (1970s)
- It's so nice - nice to feel - so good about a meal - so good about Kentucky Fried Chicken (late 1970s)
- We do chicken right! (mid 1980s)<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6DA1639F933A05751C1A964958260</ref>
- Chicken Capital USA (2005- - United States)<ref>http://www.kfc.com/</ref>
- You've got to KFC what's Cookin' (2003-2004)<ref>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/10/lol.06.html</ref>
- Dinner's Ready At Kentucky Fried Chicken (1970s - Canada)<ref>http://www.marcdenis.com/playa.asp?lefile=ad_Chicken%20Ads</ref>
- Pick up Kentucky Fried Chicken in your neighborhood; Colonel Sanders and his boys make it finger lickin' good!" (Later changed to "Colonel Sanders' boys and girls") (1970s - Canada)<ref>http://www.marcdenis.com/playa.asp?lefile=ad_Chicken%20Ads</ref>
- Got Chicken Got Soul (2005-2006 - UK)<ref>Article: KFC moves £18m media planning and buying to Walker</ref>
- There's More Inside The Bucket (2005-2006)
- The Taste Lives Here (2006-present - Canada)<ref>http://www.kfc.ca</ref>
- So Real! (Hong Kong)<ref>http://www.investhk.gov.hk/PageControl/ShowDynamic.aspx?act=newsdetail&newsid=83</ref>
- You've got great taste! (2006-present - UK)
- KFC, We know what to do with chicken (2006-present - the Netherlands)
- Kapag Fried Chicken, KFC (Philippines)
[edit] Industrial relations
Image:KFC Auckland strike.jpg KFC employs a high proportion of young and unskilled workers, and frequently pays at or just above minimum wages. Most KFC workers are not unionized.
In New Zealand, KFC youth workers earn NZ$7.13 an hour. Staff at the Balmoral, Auckland store went on strike for two hours on 3 December 2005 after Restaurant Brands, the franchise holder, offered no wage increase in contract negotiations.<ref>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10357158</ref> In March 2006, Restaurant Brands agreed to phase out youth rates in New Zealand, although no date was set.
In Australia many KFC stores are covered by an enterprise bargaining agreement with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). Despite this, their wages are barely above the Award rate of pay.
In Calgary, a KFC outlet was forced to close temporarily due to lack of staffing because of a labor shortage.
KFC is the most popular Western fast-food chain in Mainland China. Because of this success, Yum! Brands decided to open East Dawning, a new chain that serves quickly-prepared Chinese food within the same general business model and service format as KFC.
[edit] Trivia
- One of the most famous KFC restaurants in America is located in Marietta, Georgia. This store is notable for a 56-foot tall sign that looks like a chicken. The sign, known locally as the Big Chicken, was built for an earlier fast-food restaurant on the site called Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake. It is often used as a travel reference point in the Atlanta area by locals and pilots.
- Wendy's restaurants founder Dave Thomas operated several Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises before starting Wendy's restaurants. He also invented the rotating-bucket-of-chicken sign that at one time was outside every KFC and decided that the chicken should be sold in paper buckets, in order to whisk away excess moisture. Incidentally, he was a Kentucky Colonel just like Colonel Sanders, figurehead of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
- KFC items are the most popularly requested items for death row inmates final meal. <http://deadmaneating.com/>
- KFC is one of the most popular fast food restaurants in China. Local menu items include egg tarts, and lotus root salad. KFC in China also serves other poultry in addition to chicken.
- KFC originally introduced its "Popcorn Chicken" snack in the early 1990s but discontinued it after several customers complained of sickness upon eating the food, which consisted primarily of chicken skin. In the early 2000s, it reintroduced the snack, now complete with more meat attached.[citation needed]
- Separately-owned stores in Springfield, Massachusetts, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Baltimore, Maryland, Chester, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Roxbury, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, Kingston, New York and Brooklyn, New York are named "Kennedy Fried Chicken," an obvious reference to its mainstream competitor.
- Similar copycat stores exist in Portsmouth, England under the name "Ken's Tuck-in Fried Chicken". The logo design on one of them is an almost exact copy of an older KFC sign. In Huron South Dakota, the KFC went out of business and Dakota Fried Chicken now serves similar food.
- In Malaysia, there exists a KLG, which stands for 卡啦鸡(Ka La Gai) in Cantonese. The store also uses KFC elements in an altered form. For example, the lettering is of the same font and color as KFC. One visible difference is that their logo is that of a rather plump chicken wearing a bow tie, instead of Colonel Sanders.
- In addition to Pamela Anderson, celebrities who have come out in protest of KFC's treatment of chickens include Richard Pryor, Elizabeth Berkley, Paul Wall, Ringo Starr, Tyra Banks, Dick Gregory, Bea Arthur and Jason Alexander.
- KFC is so prevalent in Japan that many Japanese unknowingly consider it to be a Japanese Company. On Christmas day many families (who have made reservations weeks in advance), have their traditional Christmas dinner at KFC.<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/12/23/1135032187987.html</ref> Colonel Sanders has become somewhat of a cult figure in Japan. Not only is there a life-sized statue of the Colonel in front of every KFC, but his memorabilia like wind-up toys and figurines can be found at many toy stores throughout Japan.[citation needed]
- Japanese baseball team Hanshin Tigers is thought to be under the Curse of the Colonel, a curse coming from when an enthusiastic fan threw a store-front statue of Colonel Sanders into a local canal during a celebration for the Tigers victory in the 1985 Japan Series. The curse says that the Tigers will not win again until the statue is recovered.
- KFC sponsors a cricket one-day tournament in the West Indies known as the "KFC Cup".
- KFC stores in Queensland, Australia are the only stores in the world that are not available for franchise. They are in fact owned by Collins Foods Group Pty. Ltd., who has exclusive rights to set up KFC stores in that state.
[edit] Cultural references
- The SEGA Dreamcast game, Crazy Taxi, has a KFC as a destination for patrons. However, in the Game Boy Advance version of the game, KFC has been renamed.
- KFC's success in the 1970s influenced the first Muppet Movie where Kermit is being hunted down by a KFC-parodied franchise: "Doc Hopper's French-Fried Frog Legs".
- Circa 1985. New Zealand comedian Billy T. James performed a skit on his variety show depicting a police raid on a KFC store. The raid supposedly being carried out after the police found out what the eleven "herbs" and spices were.
- KFC was mentioned in the Mike Myers comedy film So I Married an Axe Murderer; according to the character of Stuart McKenzie (played by Myers himself), Colonel Sanders was not only involved as part of a theoretical "Pentavirate" that controlled every form of media in the world, but also placed an addictive chemical in his chicken that caused eaters to crave it "fortnightly".
- An episode of The Simpsons featured a restaurant named KFP: Kentucky Fried Panda. As Homer Simpson said, "It's finger Ling-Ling good!" Another episode featured Colonel Sanders in heaven, feeding God his popcorn chicken. God tells him that one day, he'll have to reveal the 11 herbs and spices to Him.
- In the movie Space Jam, Foghorn Leghorn, after being torched by one of the opposing players comments "Did you order original recipe or extra crispy?" referencing the styles of chicken available at KFC.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken is considered the favorite food of Eric Cartman from the show South Park. In the episode The Death of Eric Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are waiting for Stan's mother to bring home Kentucky Fried Chicken. When she arrives, Cartman distracts the others and manages to eat the skin off of every piece, leaving the other three to eat just the meat of the bird. The next morning, the boys are so angry at Cartman for eating "the best part", that they decide to totally ignore him. In the episode Tsst, Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer trains Cartman to be more obedient and submissive to his mother by eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in front of him.
- In a Family Guy episode Peter Griffin goes to a KFC outlet in Kentucky and repeatedly asks to see the Colonel.<ref>http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Griffin</ref>
- Rock group Happy Mondays were known to use the phrase "Kentucky Fried Chicken" as a euphemism for heroin; legend holds that the group broke up when lead singer Shaun Ryder left a contract meeting to go get some "Kentucky" and never returned. This scene was recreated in the 2002 movie 24 Hour Party People. In lieu of the heroin explanation however, Ryder is later seen walking down the street carrying a red bucket while imitating a chicken.
- In the UK numerous restaurants can be found that take the same approach, using many of the KFC brand elements in a slightly altered form, with names such as LFC, MFC, PFC, and FCKF, moving on to such diverse guises as Kansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, or Kennedy Fried Chicken (see above) and then the more unusual hybrids such as Hentucky, Dixy, Dallas, Texas, Texa, Tex-Ess and Kenssy Fried Chicken. Examples include YFC in Leeds, Yorkshire fried chicken, HFC in Middlesbrough, Halal Fried Chicken and Krunchy Fried Chicken in Liverpool and Manchester.
- A Madonna song called Where Life Begins includes the line "Colonel Sanders says it best: Finger-lickin' good."
- The Neil Gaiman book American Gods references the classic KFC urban legend as to why the company changed its name. According to Jackson, a man who served prison time with the main character, KFC was legally forced to remove the word 'chicken' from their name as the meat they served was no longer technically chicken, but was grown in a genetically engineered chickenoid meat-plant. However, according to the main character's former cellmate, KFC changed their name because "fried" had become a bad word.
- Heavy Metal guitarist Buckethead is known for wearing a KFC bucket on his head.
- The 2006 animated movie Barnyard has a scene where chickens throw darts at a picture of Colonel Sanders which is the logo of KFC that is on a dart board.
- Colonel Sanders is a popular reference in numerous Japanese anime and manga. A particularly well known appearance is in the film "Project A-Ko," in which the protagonists watch a horror movie featuring an animated Colonel Sanders statue.
- In an episode of Farscape, John Crichton distracts a man by expressing interest in depositing the secret ingredients to KFC. He claims to have found all eleven of them.
- In the movie Spaceballs, a character's named "Colonel Sandurz." And in one point of the movie, he's asked "What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? CHICKEN?!"
- In the movie Around the Bend (2004) the main characters -one of them a vegetarian - eat at different KFC's.
- Colonel Sanders made a guest appearance in Episode 23 of Big Brother All Stars after a houseguest (Chicken George) was evicted. Colonel Sanders visited him with a bucket of KFC chicken after Julie Chen (host of Big Brother) made a promise to him that if he were to be evicted, there would be chicken wings waiting for him outside the house.
- The song "Rock out with your Hawk out," by MC Hawking, includes the line "I've got more chicks than the colonel's got chicken, I've got to agree that it's finger lickin'."
- In the popular children's television series Arthur, there is a parody of KFC called "Chicken Licken", in which the popular ice cream shop in Elwood City called the "Sugar Bowl" is threatened to be sold to the Chicken Licken chain.
- The 2006 Japanese Animation series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni also makes reference of KFC (KCF in the show) where a main character is in urge to dig a plastic Colonel (named Kenta-kun) out of a Trash Dump.
[edit] See also
- Priszm Brandz, the leading Canadian franchisee of KFC and other Yum! Brands restaurants.
- Gino's Hamburgers, the franchisee for Kentucky Fried Chicken in the mid-Atlantic states until 1982.
- Kentucky Fried Movie
- List of fast-food restaurants
[edit] Countries with KFC
[edit] References
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[edit] External links
[edit] Official sites
- KFC website
- KFC global
- Secret Message Contest Secret message is "finger lickin good".
[edit] Other
- The KFC Boycott page
- KFC Urban Legends Reference page
- Kentucky Governor refuses PETA's statue-removal demand.
- KFC sued in US over cooking fats
- KFC cruelty (source PETA)
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