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.

KFC, formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is leaving its birthplace of Kentucky and finding a new home in Texas. The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum! Brands, announced on Tuesday, Feb. 18, that it will be moving its headquarters to Plano, a suburb of Dallas, to join the brand’s sister company Pizza Hut Global.

When you think of Kentucky Fried Chicken, what's the one place that really comes to mind? Kentucky, of course! Now, the company is moving to Texas.

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

The famous Kentucky Fried Chicken has just undergone a huge geographical change! Indeed, as announced by the brand’s owner, “Yum! Brands,” KFC will officially leave the state of Kentucky to move to Plano,

Kentucky Fried Chicken is moving its U.S. corporate office to Plano, Texas and 100 KFC corporate workers will be moving in the next six months, the Associated Press reported, citing Yum Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. What they're saying ...

“This strategic decision will involve relocating KFC U.S. corporate office employees currently in Louisville, Kentucky, to the KFC and Pizza Hut Global headquarters in Plano, Texas. In addition, U.S.-based remote employees will be asked to relocate to the campus where their work happens,” Yum! Brands said in a news release.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake-up announced Tuesday by its parent company that will relocate the chain’s U.S. corporate office to Texas.

KFC, formerly named Kentucky Fried Chicken, disappointed state leaders when it announced it was moving to Texas.

Yum! Brands which owns the fried chicken chain KFC has announced plans to move the brand's U.S. headquarters to Plano, Texas.