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Why Is It Called KFC Instead of Kentucky Fried Chicken?
KFC dropped the Kentucky Fried Chicken name in 1991 and the company president said why at the time. The trademark fee story and the mutant chicken story are both myths.
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Was Colonel Sanders a Real Person?
Colonel Sanders was a real man, but he was never a military colonel. Here is the full story of Harland Sanders, from streetcar conductor to founding KFC at 65.
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What Are KFC’s 11 Herbs and Spices?
A handwritten list of KFC’s 11 herbs and spices surfaced in 2016 on the back of a will. KFC denies it. Here is what was on the list and how the real recipe is guarded.
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Why Do Starbucks Baristas Misspell Your Name?
The theory that it is deliberate marketing has no evidence behind it. Four ordinary explanations account for all of it, and mobile ordering is quietly ending it.
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Is Starbucks Closing Stores?
Yes. Around 400 closed in North America under the Back to Starbucks plan, with 900 job cuts and a $1 billion cost. That is about one percent of the estate.
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Why Is Starbucks So Expensive?
The coffee is the cheap part. You are paying for a made to order drink, a high rent corner, and a seat you may or may not use. Here is where the money actually goes.
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Does the Pumpkin Spice Latte Have Real Pumpkin?
Yes, but only since 2015. For its first twelve years the PSL contained no pumpkin at all. It also nearly never got made, because it tested badly with customers.
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What Does the Starbucks Logo Mean?
She is a siren, not a mermaid, drawn in 1971 and redrawn three times, mostly to cover her up. The 2011 version dropped the company name entirely.
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Why Are Starbucks Sizes Called Tall, Grande and Venti?
A 1983 trip to Italy, then a naming system that ran out of room. Venti means twenty, which is also why the name is wrong on every cold drink.
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What Was the Whopper Detour?
For nine days in December 2018 Burger King sold Whoppers for one cent, but only if you were within 600 feet of a McDonald’s. It drove 1.5 million app downloads.
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Why Did Burger King Change Its Logo?
In January 2021 Burger King dropped its glossy 1999 logo and revived the flat design it used from the late 1960s. Going backwards was the right call. Here is why.
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Is Burger King Going Out of Business?
No. 103 US locations closed in 2025 out of 6,650, same store sales rose 8.5 percent, and the chain passed Wendy’s into second place. The real numbers explained.