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KFC is tossing out the bones and the quaint image of founder Col. Harland Sanders as it gets ready to test a slightly more upmarket restaurant.
The fried chicken chain says it's opening a location called "KFC eleven" early next month near its headquarters in Louisville, Ky., that will serve flatbread sandwiches, rice bowls, salads and only boneless pieces of its Original Recipe chicken.
The restaurant's exterior won't feature Sanders, whose bespectacled, white-bearded likeness has long been front-and-centre at traditional KFC locations. But the name of the test restaurant is a reference to the 11 herbs and spices Sanders used in the Original Recipe.
KFC eleven's opening is a reflection of the challenges facing traditional fast-food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. The problem is that people in their 20s and 30s are increasingly heading to chains such as Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread, where they feel they get better food for slightly higher prices.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/3895845-kfc-fires-the-colonel-and-bans-bones-in-new-upscale-restaurant/
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)We've been buying the boneless thighs for grilling and like them well so I can't see a down side to this.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)I wish my wife would let me eat it once in a while.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)badtoworse
(5,957 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)arteries - I wouldn't eat it if they gave it away. I've never been a fan - way too much grease.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)If I ever get the gumption to try and coax my car to make it the whole ten miles to the nearest KFC, I'm gonna try those boneless thingies they're advertising now. At least with the Colonel, I'm reasonably sure that "boneless" doesn't necessarily equate to "pressed together chicken parts."
warrant46
(2,205 posts)You know the stuff added for good taste
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)What they are serving is grotesque.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)tavernier
(12,322 posts)Greasier and tastier. Luckily there is not one in our town.