Chicken Licken (restaurant)

Golden Fried Chicken (Pty) Ltd
Chicken Licken
Company typePrivate
IndustryFast food
FoundedRidgeway, Gauteng 1981; 43 years ago (1981)
FounderGeorge Sombonos (1949–2016)
Headquarters
Johannesburg
,
South Africa
Number of locations
259 (2013)[1]
Key people
Chantal Sombonos
ProductsFried chicken
RevenueR1.3 billion (2013)[2][3]
Websitewww.chickenlicken.co.za

Chicken Licken is a South African fast-food fried chicken restaurant chain.[4] The company had a 5% share of South Africa's fast food market in 2010, tying with McDonald's.[5] According to a case study published by the Henny Penny Corporation in 2011, Chicken Licken is the "largest non-American-owned fried chicken franchise in the world".[1][6][7][[8]

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