Ezell's Famous Chicken is a Seattle fast food restaurant. The first restaurant was opened on February 3, 1984 in Seattle, Washington's Central District neighborhood, which is still open today. The restaurant chain has 12 other locations in Skyway, North Seattle, Renton, Lynnwood, Woodinville, Lake City, Bellevue, Tacoma, Mill Creek, Kent and Wallingford. In 2006, Ezell's opened a location on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. In 2015 the chain opened its first restaurant outside of the Western Washington area, across the state in Spokane. Ezell's also opened its first international location in June 2015, located in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The Sharjah location has since closed.
Ezell's was made famous when talk show host Oprah Winfrey called it her favorite fried chicken. There are a number of photos of her on the wall in the original Seattle location proclaiming her love of the chicken. It is also said she has the chicken flown to her in Chicago when she has a craving.
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History
The restaurant started over 30 years ago by Ezell Stephens and Lewis Rudd. In 1978, when Ezell got out of the Coast Guard and Lewis out of the army, they talked about opening a restaurant. After 6 years of night school, they finally got the funding to open in 1984.
However, it is now widely documented that Ezell Stephens had been fired from EFC, with the company pressing charges against Ezell for unauthorized store openings and sharing the trademark secret recipe (as of 9/2010). Currently, the only three locations Ezell Stephens owns are in Everett, Lake City, and Renton, Washington. As of November 2011, Ezell Stephens had changed the name of his three Ezell's locations to Heaven Sent Fried Chicken.
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See also
- List of fast-food chicken restaurants
References
External links
- Ezell's Home Page
- Heaven Sent Fried Chicken
- Seattle Times article
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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