Lee's Famous Chicken

Well that might explain their office upstairs from Cafe Rendezvous. Never tried it.

Looks like a piano cafe is opening next to them as well.

Will was a 9 lb. 3 oz. baby, due partly to the fact that I had a craving for Lee's chicken biscuits when I was pregnant. Bdarg and I would have them for dinner once or twice a week.:wub:

I see that Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken is opening soon in Redfish Village. Has anyone ever tried them?

Ate it in Ohio when I was a kid. Kind of like KFC used to be before they went "upscale".

Well that might explain their office upstairs from Cafe Rendezvous. Never tried it.

that office is "headquarters" - been there for at least a few years.

Actually, I remember them now from when I lived in Ft Wayne. Not too bad. Looks like they are opening soon. Save me the trip to KFC I guess.

http://www.leesfamousrecipe.com/ cluckity cluck cluck - looks like fast food to me. :idontno:

don't get too excited. lee's is a fast food chicken place ala kfc or popeye's. i guess it is famous because there are many of them up in ohio!! :roll:

Hmmm... :scratch:Fast food on 30A. What is the world coming to?

Too bad we didn't get a Cluck-U-Chicken franchise :( http://www.cluckuchicken.com/

Interesting history though:

Lee's Famous Chicken,

Lee Cummings, the nephew of Colonel Harland Sanders, spent his childhood in the kitchen of his Henryville Indiana home. Lee hit the road with his Uncle Harland in 1952, selling their own special blend of spices along with their famous pressure cookers which later became part of KFC's "Secret Recipe". In three years, Lee and the Colonel opened over 800 KFC stores. In 1962, the Colonel sold KFC to John Y. Brown.

After the sale of KFC, Lee Cummings started developing his recipe later to be known as "Famous Recipe." In 1966, Lee along with Harold Omerr started "Harold's Take-Home" in Lima, Ohio where Lee introduced his first Famous Recipes Chicken. The word was out about this great new recipe and later that year the first frachise unit was sold to Jim Sanders and opened in Columbus, Ohio.

By 1967, the fifth franchise unit was opened by Lee and Bob Burick in Springfield, Ohio. Later that year, units followed in Dayton and Cincinatti, Ohio as well as Kalamazoo, Michigan and Famous Recipe was on its way!

In 1970, Lee's Famous Recipe went international with the opening of three units in Trinidad and by 1972 there were more than 100 units in the thriving chain. By 1979, the number of units had doubled to 200 and in 1981 Lee sold the chain to Shoney's Restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee. Shoney's continued to operate Lee's along with their own Captain D's and Shoney's Restaurants until 1995, when Lee's was sold to RTM Restaurant Group in Atlanta, Georgia. The chain celebrated it's 30th Anniversary as part of RTM and in 2003 Lee's was sold to Famous Recipes, Inc. and headquartered in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

Jeff Miller, owner of Famous Recipes, Inc., bought the chain with the distinct vision of combining the great products of Lee's with an economical and versatile building design that would promote easy entry into the chicken business. Lee's Famous Recipe is poised for growth as a number of restaurants are currently under development or construction.

Thanks for posting all of that Shelly. :wave:

Very interesting!

Looks like a piano cafe is opening next to them as well.

When I first read this, my bleary mind was wondering who the @#$% would eat a piano...

Chicken within three miles of government offices and sheriff's substation. This is dangerous.

Hmmm... :scratch:Fast food on 30A. What is the world coming to?

cough "Subway" cough "Starbucks" cough

"combining the great products of Lee's with an economical and versatile building design that would promote easy entry into the chicken business."

This I have to see. :floor: From your post, it sounds like Lee's Chicken is in about the same class as Captain D's and Shoney's. I cannot say that I'm too excited.

This I have to see. :floor: From your post, it sounds like Lee's Chicken is in about the same class as Captain D's and Shoney's. I cannot say that I'm too excited.

Better than both- 'cause you take a bucket of fried chicken to the beach.:wub:

Better than both- 'cause you take a bucket of fried chicken to the beach.:wub:

Don't Shoney's and Captain D's have to-go containers? Nothing like good seafood at the beach. :floor: As for fried chicken, Publix has to-go boxes. For the most part, I stopped eating fried chicken a long time ago. I ate enough of it to last me a lifetime.

Don't Shoney's and Captain D's have to-go containers? Nothing like good seafood at the beach. :floor: As for fried chicken, Publix has to-go boxes. For the most part, I stopped eating fried chicken a long time ago. I ate enough of it to last me a lifetime.

Hope you have saved a cast iron skillet as you have been "lightening your possession load"- you never know when the fried chicken jones will hit.:wave:

oh joe, no fried chicken, for me, it's the perfect food, so many different recipes, :floor: so little time, just had a leftover drumstick from sunday supper, yumyum