Despite moving the chain from Kentucky to Texas, the company and the KFC Foundation plan to maintain corporate offices in Louisville, Kentucky.
Sanders originally began selling his fried chicken in service stations throughout Nicholasville and Corbin, Kentucky, where he worked on creating a recipe using a pressure cooker and a blend of 11 different herbs and spices.
The company was led by multiple different people throughout the years before being consolidated with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell when PepsiCo spun off its restaurant division in 1997 into what was rebranded as Yum!
KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders who first served chicken to travelers at a roadside motel in Kentucky in the 1930s.
Fried chicken giant KFC is leaving Kentucky and moving to Texas.
