Closed to feed
the hungry. KFC today announced that to raise awareness for World Hunger Relief efforts, it shut the doors of its two most historic locations – Colonel Sanders’ first restaurant in Corbin, Ky., and the original KFC franchise in Salt Lake City. To highlight the chain’s national campaign to collect donations for the worldwide cause, it converted the restaurants into “World Hunger Relief Kitchens,” serving free meals to in-need residents from local shelters.
Only a cause as important as fighting world hunger could inspire the owners of KFC’s two most famous restaurants to shut their doors. The Corbin restaurant, operated by JRN Inc., has operated since 1940 and the Salt Lake City location, operated by Harman Management Corp., has been serving customers since 1952.
There are approximately 1 billion hungry people around the world today. Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Among the key causes of hunger are natural disasters, conflict, poverty, poor agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of the environment. Recently, financial and economic crises have pushed more people into hunger.