Fried chicken restaurant facts for kids
A fried chicken restaurant is a type of fast food place that mainly serves fried chicken. This usually means pieces of chicken that have been covered in a special mix (called batter or breading) and then cooked in hot oil (this is called deep-frying). These restaurants are often part of big chains, meaning they have many locations around the world.
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Fried Chicken in the United States
The idea of fried chicken restaurants first started in the United States. Besides fried chicken, these restaurants might also offer other tasty foods like roasted or grilled chicken, seafood, or hamburgers. KFC (which used to be called Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a very famous example.
Here are some other popular fried chicken chains you might find in the U.S.:
- Baes Fried Chicken
- Bojangles'
- Brown's Chicken & Pasta
- Bush's Chicken
- Chick-Fil-A
- Chicken Delight
- Chicken Express
- Church's Chicken
- Crown Fried Chicken
- Golden Chick
- Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken
- Harold's Chicken Shack
- Jollibee
- Kennedy Fried Chicken
- KFC
- Krispy Krunchy Chicken
- Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken
- Mrs. Winner's
- Pollo Campero
- Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
- Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
- Roy Rogers
- Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q
- Zaxby's
Fried Chicken in Canada
Canada has its own fried chicken fast-food chains. These include Dixie Lee, which started in Napanee, Ontario, and Mary Brown's, based in Markham, Ontario. Many U.S. chains, like KFC and Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, also have restaurants across Canada.
Fried Chicken in the United Kingdom
Fried chicken restaurants are very common in the inner city areas of the United Kingdom. The UK has one of the biggest and fastest-growing fried chicken markets in the world. There are about 1,000 different brands and 1,700 locations! You'll often see their signs designed in red, white, and blue colors, with a drawing of a chicken. They might also mention the Southern United States, where fried chicken is very popular.
These restaurants are especially popular in certain neighborhoods. Sometimes, people have worried that having too many of them can make an area look less appealing. For example, Tottenham MP David Lammy has talked about how many chicken places there are in his area. Some residents in Waltham Forest have even called them "eyesores" that might encourage bad behavior, according to a survey.
Other popular UK chicken brands include Chicken Cottage, Morley's, and Dixy Chicken.
Fried Chicken Around the World
Fried chicken restaurants are popular in many other countries too!
Australia
- Chooks Fresh 'n Tasty, which used to be called River Rooster, had 39 stores mostly in Western Australia as of 2010. Other chains include Country Fried Chicken, Oporto, and Red Rooster.
Colombia
- Pollo Campero is a fried chicken chain from Guatemala. It has more than 200 locations in twelve different countries, including 50 in the United States.
Nigeria
- Tastee Fried Chicken is a fast food fried chicken restaurant with eight locations, all based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Philippines
- Jollibee is a very large fast food chain with over 1500 branches all around the world.
- Max's Restaurant has over 100 branches in the Philippines and several more in the United States.
South Africa
- Chicken Licken
- Hungry Lion
South Korea
- Bonchon Chicken is a very famous fried chicken chain from South Korea. It has over 338 branches in South Korea, other parts of Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.
Taiwan
- TKK Fried Chicken is the most popular Taiwanese fried chicken restaurant in Taiwan and in other countries.
