KFC is a fast-food restaurant business based in Louisville, Kentucky, that specializes in fried chicken. It is also widely referred to by its historical name, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Based on sales, it is the second-biggest restaurant chain in the world, behind McDonald's, with 22,621 outlets in 150 countries as of December 2019.[4] The Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are owned by Yum! Brands, the food business that also owns the chain.[5]
ADColonel Harland Sanders (1890–1980), a businessman who started selling fried chicken from his roadside eatery in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression, was the man behind KFC. In 1952, the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened its doors in Salt Lake City, Utah, after Sanders recognized the potential of the restaurant franchising model. KFC made.
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1952, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the fast-food industry, KFC promoted chicken and diversified the market by upending the hamburger's long-standing supremacy. Harland established himself as "Colonel Sanders" and went on to become a well-known person in American history. His likeness is now frequently featured in KFC advertisements. But the aging Sanders was unable to keep up with the company's rapid expansion, and in 1964 he sold it to a group of investors headed by Jack C. Massey and John Y. Brown Jr.
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A contemporary KFC location located in Murphy, North Carolina
One of the first American fast-food businesses to go global was KFC, which by the middle of the 1960s had locations in Jamaica, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico. It had mixed results domestically during the 1970s and 1980s due to a succession of corporate ownership changes involving individuals with little to no prior experience in the restaurant industry.
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A contemporary KFC location located in Murphy, North Carolina
One of the first American fast-food businesses to go global was KFC, which by the middle of the 1960s had locations in Jamaica, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico. It had mixed results domestically during the 1970s and 1980s due to a succession of corporate ownership changes involving individuals with little to no prior experience in the restaurant industry.
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KFC was sold to Heublein, a liquor distributor, in the early 1970s. Heublein was later acquired by the R. J. Reynolds food and tobacco conglomerate, which then sold the franchise to PepsiCo. Nonetheless, the brand kept growing abroad, and in 1987 it opened China's first Western restaurant chain. Since then, it has quickly grown in China, which is.
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