KFC moves U.S. headquarters from Kentucky to Texas

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KFC moves U.S. headquarters from Kentucky to Texas

Signage outside a Yum Brands Inc. KFC restaurant in Shelbyville, Kentucky, on Jan. 29, 2021.

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KFC is leaving Kentucky.

The fried chicken chain’s U.S. headquarters will move from Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas, owner Yum Brands

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About 100 KFC U.S. employees will be required to relocate over the next six months.

The relocation is part of Yum’s broader plan to have two corporate headquarters: one in Plano, the other in Irvine, California. KFC and Pizza Hut’s global teams are already based in Plano, while Taco Bell and the Habit Burger Grill are located in Irvine.

Additionally, Yum’s U.S. remote workforce, roughly 90 workers, will also be asked to move to the campus where their work is based.

But Yum isn’t entirely abandoning Kentucky. The company and the KFC Foundation plan to maintain corporate offices in Louisville. Plus, KFC still plans to build a new flagship restaurant in its former hometown.

Since the pandemic, many employers have been rethinking their corporate headquarters, often spurred to move by lower taxes and changes to office space needs due to the hybrid or remote workforce. With its business friendly policies, Texas has been the most popular relocation choice, according to a

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In 2020, Yum rival Papa Johns

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from Louisville to Atlanta. It later canceled plans to sell its old headquarters, instead opting to hold onto the building for the corporate workers who stayed in Louisville.

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