Chicken as food
Type of meat
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| 2025 | Yum! Brands plans to relocate KFC's headquarters from Louisville, Kentucky to Plano, Texas. |
| 2025 | Hundreds of customers lined up outside a new Chick-fil-A restaurant in Cambridge, Ontario, as early as 5 AM despite freezing cold temperatures. |
| 2025 | Chick-fil-A backtracked on its cage-free egg commitment, citing industry barriers and bird flu. |
| February 2025 | Chick-fil-A opened a second restaurant in Templepatrick, Northern Ireland under a partnership with Welcome Break. |
| January 2025 | Chick-fil-A opened its first full UK restaurant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. |
| January 2025 | Chick-fil-A announced plans to centralize lemonade production in a new automated facility in California, capable of processing 30-35 truckloads of lemons daily. |
| 2024 | Chick-fil-A opened locations in Alberta, including one in the Phase III food court of West Edmonton Mall and another on Macleod Trail in Calgary. |
| 2024 | Susannah Frost becomes the new president of Chick-fil-A, continuing the company's leadership transition. |
| 2024 | Announced plans to open stores in New Zealand and Taiwan. |
| 2024 | Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers expands to Dubai, marking another milestone in its international growth strategy. |
| October 22 2024 | A new Raising Cane's location opened in Encino, California, featuring a design that pays homage to the area's movie history. |
| October 17 2024 | Chick-fil-A officially announced plans to open its first restaurant in Singapore in late 2025, with a planned investment of US$75 million for the first 10 years of operation. |
| September 2024 | KFC announced it would not meet the Better Chicken Commitment animal welfare pledge, with only 1% of chickens from slower-growing breeds. |
| September 30 2024 | Church's Texas Chicken discontinued its operation in Thailand, with PTT OR ceasing operations of 97 Texas Chicken locations nationwide after 9 years. |
| June 2024 | Raising Cane's launched an iced tea campaign featuring Ice T as the mascot, which ran until the end of June. |
| June 26 2024 | Chick-fil-A opened a three-day pop-up restaurant at Esplanade Mall in Singapore, marking its first presence in an Asian country. |
| May 2024 | KFC outlet in Malaysia closed due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with attacks on two outlets in Baghdad, Iraq also reported. |
| March 2024 | Chick-fil-A announced a departure from its previous 'antibiotic-free' chicken commitment, shifting to a new policy of No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine (NAIHM). |
| 2023 | KFC branches in UK and Ireland introduced new 'signature fries' coated in herbs and spices, aiming to improve the taste of their fries. |
| 2023 | Chick-fil-A added two more sauces to their retail product line and expanded salad dressing sales nationwide. |
| 2023 | Tim Tassopoulos concludes his presidency of Chick-fil-A. |
| October 2023 | A Post Malone and Dallas Cowboys themed Raising Cane's location opened in Dallas. |
| September 2023 | Chick-fil-A announced plans to open five restaurants in the UK from early 2025, with an investment of over $100M over the next ten years. |
| August 2023 | British private equity firm TDR Capital invested in Popeyes UK. |
| July 12 2023 | Aflac becomes the new sponsor of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, ending Chick-fil-A's direct sponsorship. |
| June 2023 | Themed cups were launched as part of the Post Malone campaign. |
| June 2023 | Buffalo Wild Wings exited the Canadian market by closing its 5 remaining locations in Ontario. |
| May 2023 | Closes the original Chick-fil-A location in Greenbriar Mall without stating a reason. |
| April 2023 | A Raising Cane's restaurant designed by Post Malone opened in Midvale, Utah. |
| March 2023 | Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy announced plans to expand into Asia and Europe by 2026, targeting five overseas markets by 2030. |
| February 2023 | Kentucky Fried Chicken in Australia announced the removal of several menu items, including wings, popcorn chicken, Nashville hot sauce, and strawberry lemonade. |
| February 13 2023 | Introduces their first non-meat sandwich, a breaded cauliflower sandwich. |
| January 2023 | Reopened in South Korea, signed agreement with Shilla International. |
| 2022 | KFC Singapore and Malaysia switched from PepsiCo to Coca-Cola Company for beverage supplies. |
| 2022 | A promotional video featuring influencer Niko Omilana was revealed to be misleading about chicken farm conditions, with animal rights activists finding poor welfare standards. |
| 2022 | Chick-fil-A was named the country's favorite fast food chain for the eighth consecutive year by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. |
| 2022 | Popeyes expanded its restaurant presence with a total of 1,931 locations, including 1,545 restaurants in the United States, 42 in Canada, 344 in international markets, and 50 company-owned establishments. |
| 2022 | Church's Texas Chicken expanded to operate more than 1,500 locations worldwide across 27 countries. |
| 2022 | Raising Cane's filed a lawsuit against a shopping center in Hobart, Indiana, after discovering a non-compete agreement with McDonald's that prohibited de-boned chicken product sales. |
| December 23 2022 | Returned to Indonesia, opening first store in Skyline Building, Central Jakarta. |
| November 9 2022 | KFC Germany issued an inappropriate announcement about Kristallnacht, quickly followed by an apology. |
| October 2022 | Chick-fil-A initiated a trial of salad dressing sales in the Cincinnati metropolitan area and parts of Tennessee. |
| April 9 2022 | Opened first restaurant in Romania. |
| March 3 2022 | Chick-fil-A opened its first location in Puerto Rico, situated in Bayamón. |
| January 2022 | Signed an agreement with South Korean Tuna Supplier Shilla International to reopen in South Korea. |
| 2021 | Andrew T. Cathy becomes the CEO of Chick-fil-A, taking over leadership from his cousin Dan Cathy and representing the third generation of family leadership. |
| 2021 | Chick-fil-A expanded sauce sales nationwide after the successful Florida trial. |
| 2021 | Popeyes introduced a new flounder sandwich to its menu. |
| 2021 | Church's Chicken appointed Performance Food Group Company as its exclusive distributor in the United States, with the contract set to run through 2026. |
| 2021 | In response to worker shortages, Raising Cane's began sending corporate employees to work in restaurants as cooks and cashiers, with plans to hire 10,000 new employees. |
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