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.

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.

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.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake up announced Tuesday by its parent company that will relocate the chain’s US corporate office to Texas. The KFC chain — launched by Colonel Harland Sanders and his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices — will be based in Plano,

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On Tuesday it was announced that KFC, the fast food giant formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is moving its U.S. headquarters from Louisville in Kentucky to Plano, a city on the northern outskirts of Dallas.

KFC is moving its headquarters to Texas, sparking backlash from unhappy customers who quickly voiced their displeasure.

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