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. The food chain now known as KFC — launched by Colonel Harland Sanders and his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices — will be based in Plano,

Yum! Brands said it will consolidate its US offices, relocating about 200 corporate workers as a result. The company’s two main locations will be in Plano, Texas, and Irvine, California, according to a statement Tuesday.

Pizza Hut, KFC’s sister brand, already has its HQ in Plano, where KFC will be run. KFC started in a motel in a small town in Kentucky 95 years ago and continued its operations in the Bluegrass State.

KFC Yum! Brands has announced it is moving 100 jobs out of Louisville and relocating its KFC U.S. corporate offices to Plano, Texas.

Some of Louisville's elected officials believe the city has reached an inflection point after Yum! Brands dropped the bombshell that home-grown, and internationally known, Kentucky Fried Chicken would be moving its U.

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Churchill Downs is still waiting on approval of incentives that must get the green light first from the Louisville Metro and then from the appropriate state agencies, including the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. On Tuesday, KFC’s parent company Yum! Brands announced KFC will be moving it’s corporate headquarters from Louisville, to Plano, Texas.

The KFC and Pizza Hut global teams from the Yum! Brands are already based in Plano, Texas, and the Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill teams are located in Irvine, Calif. “These

Kentucky Fried Chicken, as it was once branded, was originally started in approximately 160 miles southeast of Louisville in Corbin, Kentucky. In a press release this week, Yum! Brands said KFC's corporate employees in Louisville will be moved to the KFC and Pizza Hut global headquarters in Plano,

By Tom Latek Kentucky Today First, Kentucky Fried Chicken took Kentucky out of their name to become known as KFC. Now they are taking KFC out of Kentucky, as parent company Yum! Brands announced it is relocating the company headquarters from Louisville to the KFC and Pizza Hut Global headquarters in Plano,

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