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One of Kennedy Fried Chickens on 14th Street in Manhattan, NY.

Kennedy Fried Chicken is the name for many restaurants in the New York City area and elsewhere in the northeastern United States that are located mostly in inner-city neighborhoods.

The restaurants are traditionally owned and operated by immigrants from Afghanistan and are not formally connected, although their menus and prices are similar. This lack of centralized control has posed huge problems for Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in New York. Since the 1990s, KFC 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 Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The cat-and-mouse game with KFC has resulted in various other knock-off names such as Kennedy Chicken, Kennedy Pizza & Chicken, Kansas Fried Chicken, and JFK Fried Chicken. Many of these restaurants have opened in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Kansas Fried Chicken has even appeared in Manchester, England. For the most part the restaurants share the same Afghan heritage, if not the same menus.

Food at many of the inner-city restaurants is served from behind bulletproof glass. Its specialties are its deep-fried chicken (described as "not too dry or too soggy") as well as burgers, corn on the cob , hot wings, fried fish, heros, ice cream and sweet potato pie. Given its inner-city roots, chicken and food is quite often ordered a la carte.

The Kennedy restaurants have also worked their way into New York restaurant lore in much the same manner as Ray's Pizza, which is also a collection of restaurants under the same name but not the same control.

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  1. The New York Times - KFC v. KFC

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