Is Texas a winner winner chicken dinner? Louisville, Kentucky, mayor disappointed that chain “synonymous with Kentucky” will move to Lone Star State.

Pizza Hut, KFC’s sister brand, already has its HQ in Plano, where KFC will be run. KFC started in a motel in a small town in Kentucky 95 years ago and continued its operations in the Bluegrass State.

KFC will relocate its 100 corporate office employees from Louisville, Kentucky to the KFC and Pizza Hut headquarters in Plano. The relocation is expected to happen o

Kentucky is losing a piece of its identity as Kentucky Fried Chicken, known these days as just KFC, decamps to Texas nearly a century after its founder began serving his childhood favorite at a

KFC stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken — everyone knows this, even chicken eaters outside of the United States. But the chain, long based in Kentucky, is relocating after 95 years of making chicken with the Southern state as its home base (KFC’s headquarters is in Louisville).

Kentucky Fried Chicken is moving its corporate headquarters out of of the state where it was founded, with Yum! Brands announcing plans to relocate the operation to Texas over the next six months. The move will consolidate KFC's offices with sister brand Pizza Hut’s headquarters in Plano,

Kentucky Fried Chicken, as it was once branded, was originally started in approximately 160 miles southeast of Louisville in Corbin, Kentucky. In a press release this week, Yum! Brands said KFC's corporate employees in Louisville will be moved to the KFC and Pizza Hut global headquarters in Plano,

KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders’ iconic image is still visible today, gracing everything from restaurant signage to the signature chicken buckets. AFP / William WEST Yum Brands has announced that Kentucky Fried Chicken will relocate its U.

The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.

Is Texas a winner winner chicken dinner? Louisville, Kentucky, mayor disappointed that chain “synonymous with Kentucky” will move to Lone Star State.

KFC, formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is officially leaving the state it’s named after. The fast food chain’s parent company, Yum! Brands, announced on Tuesday that KFC will be moving its corporate headquarters to Texas. Specifically, the Dallas suburb of Plano, where KFC will join sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is about to leave Kentucky as its owner, Yum! Brands said it would be leaving the state and opening two new brand headquarters in other states.