KFC Canada is beating the US to the punch again as they'll be adding a fried favorite to the menu that US KFCs still lack. the Original Recipe Onion Rings will be available for a limited time and will be part of a 60th anniversary bucket meal that also includes eight pieces of chicken and popcorn chicken.
It is not the first time that international branches of KFC have introduced something new to the menu before the US branches. As we've seen KFC in the Philippines introduce a Double Down Burger and a Double Down Hotdog, and even edible coffee cups in KFC UK.
KFC (short for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. It is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonalds, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013. KFC was founded by Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin Kentucky, during the Great Depression.
Sanders identified the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Utah in 1952. KFC popularized chicken in the fast food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger.
By branding himself as "Colonel Sanders," Harland became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. However, the company's rapid expansion saw it overwhelm the ageing Sanders, and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Brown Jr. and Jack Massey. KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-1960s.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, KFC experienced mixed fortunes domestically, as it went through a series of changes in corporate ownership with little or no experience in the restaurant business.
