KFC Shifts Headquarters From Kentucky To Texas

Kentucky Fried Chicken, known as KFC, has moved its headquarters from Kentucky to Texas.

KFC will move its headquarters from Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas.

As a result of the company’s move, 100 employees working at the Louisville office will transfer to the Plato office within the next six months.

KFC is leaving Kentucky. The fried chicken chain’s U.S. headquarters will move from Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas, owner Yum Brands said Tuesday. https://t.co/rtDugpjAU7 pic.twitter.com/3p7d23PdBz

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 18, 2025

KFC is moving their HQ from Kentucky to Texas pic.twitter.com/8ZE1oqq1B9

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) February 19, 2025

Here’s what CBS News reported:

KFC is uprooting itself, so to speak, with the famous brand, formerly named Kentucky Fried Chicken, set to relocate to Texas. In doing so, it follows in the wake of a handful of companies that have recently moved to the Lone Star state.

One of several major fast-food chains operated by Yum Brands, KFC is relocating its U.S. corporate headquarters from Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas, Yum announced on Tuesday. About 100 corporate workers will move from Louisville to Plano in the next six months as a result, according to the company.

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Parent company Yum wants to bring additional teams together with the idea of better serving its customers, franchisees, workers and shareholders, CEO David Gibbs stated.

Yum and the KFC Foundation will maintain offices in Louisville, and Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill, also Yum-operated, will stay headquartered in Irvine, California. Another roughly 90 remote workers will be asked to relocate to Plano and Irvine during the next year and a half, the company said.

A number of corporations, including those in the tech industry, have recently relocated to Texas. Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX transferred its incorporation from Delaware to Texas last year and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in January stated the company’s content oversight teams would be moving from California to Texas.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is leaving Kentucky. Make it make sense. https://t.co/55CHvrHfZ1 pic.twitter.com/Gjz9o8CG8K

— KSR (@KSRonX) February 19, 2025

Per KSR:

Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the Commonwealth’s greatest exports. Now, Yum! Brands is exporting the KFC corporate offices. How does Texas Fried Chicken sound?

Yum! announced on Tuesday that it will be moving 100 jobs from the KFC corporate offices in Louisville to Plano, Texas. There, KFC will be joined with Pizza Hut, while two other Yum! brands — Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill — will operate together in Irvine, California.

Colonel Harland Sanders turned 11 herbs and spices into a worldwide phenomenon and it all started at his cafe in Corbin, KY. You can still visit the museum at the original site and order a bucket of chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken was rebranded to KFC in 1991. That rebrand bites even harder with 100 employees leaving its home state.