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Kennedy Fried Chicken is the name for many restaurants in the New York City area and elsewhere in the northeastern United States that are located mostly in inner-city neighborhoods.
The restaurants are traditionally owned and operated by immigrants from Bihar and are not formally connected, although their menus and prices are similar. This lack of centralized control has posed problems for Kentucky Fried Chicken, which since the 1990s has tried to enforce trademark rules against the restaurants, which often use the KFC abbreviation and have been known to decorate their restaurants in red and white colors, similar to Kentucky Fried Chicken's logo.
The cat-and-mouse game with Kentucky Fried Chicken has resulted in various other knock-off names such as Kennedy Chicken, Kennedy Pizza & Chicken, Kansas Fried Chicken, and JFK Fried Chicken. Restaurants have opened in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Kansas Fried Chicken has even appeared in Manchester, England. For the most part the restaurants share the same Bihari heritage, if not the same menus.
Food at many of the inner-city restaurants is served from behind bulletproof glass. Its specialties are its deep-fried chicken (described as "not too dry or too soggy") as well as burgers, hot wings, ice cream and sweet potato pie. Given its inner-city roots, chicken and food is quite often ordered a la carte.
The restaurants have also worked their way into New York restaurant lore in much the same manner as Ray's Pizza, which is also a collection of restaurants under the same name but not the same control.
Rumors surfaced in 2004 that a new skyscraper would be built at Kennedy Fried Chicken's location in Chester, Pennsylvania, with the restaurant being the "crown jewel" of the new building. However, plans reportedly fell through when information regarding the proposed skyscraper leaked on a major Philadelphia website.
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- Kennedy Chicken sanitation violations uncovered
- Kennedy Chicken faces scrutiny in Springfield, MA
- Mayor closes Kennedy Chicken after shootout
- KFC v. KFC
- Kennedy Chicken's other names from New York Times