Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake up that will relocate its U.S. corporate office to Texas, the chain's parent company said Tuesday. The KFC chain — lau

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

According to Yum! Brands, about 100 KFC U.S. corporate employees in Louisville will be moving to its KFC and Pizza Hut Global headquarters in Plano, Texas, outside of Dallas. It’s a process that will take approximately six months to complete.

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