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Kennedy Fried Chicken



Where exactly is this fine establishment located? Colonel Sander's Vineyards? Nanbucket?


"Kennedy Fried Chicken was named after U.S. President John F. Kennedy, "just because Afghans like him a lot". During the 1980s and 90s, many of the same restaurants have opened across New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland and several other states. Some of them even opened in the West Coast, in California. Their total number is roughly estimated to be approximately 1,000.

For the most part the restaurants share the same concept, if not the same menus. In addition to fried chicken, they also offer fried fish, hot wings, short ribs, shrimp, burgers, pizza, beef patties on coco bread, all sorts of sandwiches and heroes, fries, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, onion rings, sweet potato pies and a variety flavors of ice cream for desserts.

Food at many of the inner-city restaurants is served from behind bulletproof glass. Its specialties are the deep-fried chicken (described as "not too dry or too soggy"). Given its inner-city roots, chicken and food is quite often ordered a la carte. The menu provided with takeout and delivery orders does not include all the restaurant's offerings, which are usually posted on its walls with accompanying large color photographs of the actual items.

The restaurants are traditionally owned and operated mostly by Afghan Americans but are not formally connected, although their menus and prices are similar.[2] This lack of centralized control has posed huge problems for KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) in New York. Since the 1990s, Kentucky Fried Chicken has tried to enforce trademark rules against the restaurants, which often use the "KFC" abbreviation and have been known to decorate their restaurants in red and white colors, similar to that of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Some recently established Fried Chicken restaurants are owned by other American people.

Due to the tendency of these restaurants to appear in inner-city locations, Kennedy Fried Chicken is often referred to as "ghetto chicken" by its customers in a humorous or derogatory manner."