Raising Cane's and Wingstop have bad news for KFC
The war of the chicken chains rages on.
When Kentucky Fried Chicken (YUM) — or KFC, as it's more often called — first opened its doors in 1952, it must have seemed like a dream to founder Colonel Harland Sanders, who started out selling his famous fried chicken at a roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky.
A key part of Sanders' plan was to offer folks something other than the all-dominant burger, and he clearly had something there. He refused many methods of preparing his chicken, including deep-frying, which he felt ruined the food. In the end, Sanders used a modified pressure cooker as a "pressure fryer" to create his masterpiece, and that's what kept his customers coming back for more.