Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken
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Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken is a fast food restaurant in the Southern and Midwestern United States which specializes in fried chicken.
Lee Cummings, the nephew of Colonel Harland Sanders (founder of KFC), spent his childhood in the kitchen of his Henryville, Indiana home. Lee traveled with his Uncle Harland in 1952, selling their "special blend of spices" along with trademark pressure cookers which later became part of KFC's "Secret Recipe". In three years the Colonel and Lee opened over 800 KFC stores. In 1962, the Colonel sold KFC to John Y. Brown, Jr..
After the sale of KFC, Lee Cummings started developing his recipe later to be known as "Famous Recipe." In 1966, Lee along with Harold Omerr started "Harold's Take-Home" in Lima, Ohio where Lee introduced his first Famous Recipes Chicken. Later that year the first frachise unit was sold to Jim Sanders and opened in Columbus, Ohio.
By 1967, the fifth franchise unit was opened by Lee and Bob Burick in Springfield, Ohio. Later that year, units followed in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio as well as Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In 1970, Lee's Famous Recipe opened three units in Trinidad and by 1972 there were more than 100 units in the chain. By 1979, the number of units had doubled to 200 and in 1981 Lee sold the chain to Shoney's Restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee. Shoney's continued to operate Lee's along with their own Captain D's and Shoney's Restaurants until 1995, when Lee's was sold to RTM Restaurant Group in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2003 Lee's was sold to Famous Recipes, Inc. and headquartered in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
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