Clover flowers and above knee-height weeds are abundant outside of the KFC at 2231 W. Glen Ave. in Peoria. Various plants have sprouted up in the small crack where the parking lot meets the sidewalk. A messaged taped to the restaurant doors reads in part: “We wanted to take a moment to express our heartfelt […]
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It’s so tough to pay cash in China that the government had to fine a KFC for not accepting banknotes
China recently fined several businesses, including a KFC, for refusing to accept cash. These are some of the most established companies in China, showing just how quickly cash has fallen from favor there. It’s a problem for a China hoping to attract foreign tourists who aren’t part of the cashless system. China’s central bank fined […]
KFC ad misinterpreted online, stirring false Israel-Hamas claims
Social media users are claiming a KFC social media promotion mocked Palestinians displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. This is false; the US fast-food chain said its since-deleted posts, which used the hashtag “NoTentsJustChicken,” referenced online chatter about a government agency’s missing tent in Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean nation — not the conflict in Gaza. […]
KFC ad falls foul of advertising standards
A TV advert for fast food outlet KFC that featured two women eating an “unhealthy” amount of chicken “should not reappear in its current form”, the State’s advertising watchdog has said. The ad features a bride and her bridesmaid eating a bucket of KFC chicken 15 minutes before the wedding ceremony. A complaint to Advertising […]