We're not saying that you can't get your favorite Church's Chicken combo platter, it just won't be offered at a restaurant with "Church's" on the building. That's because outside of the U. According to The Houston Chronicle , the brand began expanding internationally in the s and chose to go with "Texas Chicken" for two reasons. First, they didn't want any confusion in the international market with the restaurant being religious-based because of the name.
Second, the name "Texas Chicken" conjures up images of cowboys and just screams "American" in foreign markets. The Texas Chicken logo at some locations even mimics a similar design and color scheme as Church's Chicken. That changed in though — at least for Canadian locations — when the brand got a logo redesign where it's known as Church's Texas Chicken via Atlanta Business Chronicle. Understandably, a company with three different names might be a bit confusing, but rest assured, it's all the same chicken — just a different logo.
Despite "church" being part of the name, Church's Chicken is not a church and has no affiliation with any churches. It's merely the last name of the restaurant's founder. While the company has gone to great lengths to avoid this sort of confusion in the international market, it hasn't been percent foolproof. According to Vice , in , Texas Chicken Malaysia received a Facebook message from a concerned customer who was upset that they'd been tricked into eating chicken made by a church.
Malaysia is a country that is 61 percent Muslim and the customer was concerned that the chain was serving non-halal food. While the restaurant that served the meal was indeed called Texas Chicken, it was only when the customer noticed "Church's" on the label of their dipping sauce that they became stricken with worry.
Texas Chicken Malaysia's social media team cleared up the confusion, explaining the company's backstory and reassuring Facebook fans that there was no "religious context. That's because these restaurants were once owned by the same giant company — Yum! Fans of Church's Chicken and White Castle will also find a few locations where both brands share the same building.
Unlike so many fast food chains, White Castle has skirted industry trends and is a completely family-run business via Forbes. So then how did this Church's Chicken and White Castle partnership come to be?
The exact details of the business partnership aren't entirely known, but according to the book Selling 'Em by the Sack , the partnership came to fruition in the mids. Both restaurants serve their own menu items, of course, they simply share the same restaurant space. QSR Magazine noted that both companies also share the same supply chain company, which undoubtedly makes running co-branded restaurants a little easier. Either way, the fact that fast food customers can get a fried chicken meal with a slider on the side is pretty cool.
Convenience and cheap prices are the big drivers behind fast food sales, but it never hurts to have a fast food mascot around to remind people of the deep-fried delights awaiting them. There seem to be two paths to take when developing a fast food mascot: make up a character Ronald McDonald or use the likeness of a real person Colonel Sanders.
Church's has taken the former approach. When George W. Church launched his chicken business in the early s, the chicken restaurant had a mascot by the name of "Churchie. Churchie may not exactly have been the sort of attention-grabbing character as a Ronald McDonald, but he hung around for a few decades.
Sometime in the s, however, Churchie underwent a physical transformation from a man in a chef's hat to a full-blown chicken via Texas Histor y. Per Restaurant News' Church's Chicken timeline, it looks like this happened around the time that the brand introduced its record-setting Church's Big Sandwich. The original Churchie occasionally pops up, but it's mostly only in social media throwback photos via Facebook.
That's right, Church's Chicken didn't go after the giant sporting events, and instead, decided to lend its name in sponsorship of world champion chess tournaments. According to the obituary of Bill Church Jr. A New York Times article cites the company sponsoring chess tournaments as far back as , and a partnership with the United States Chess Federation continued up through at least via Red Lion Data.
As for what a Church's Chicken-sponsored chess tournament was like, well, the San Antonio tournament was dubbed the "Fried Chicken Tournament" and included some of the best chess players in the world. Winners of the tournament didn't merely walk away with a lousy T-shirt or box of free fried chicken either. George W. While four grand is certainly nothing to scoff at, it was apparently too low at the time for chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, who declined the invite to attend Church's chess tournament.
It's no secret that was a big year for fast food chicken when Popeyes kicked off the "chicken sandwich wars. Until late , the brand hadn't even had a national advertising campaign in 10 years!
Considering that the restaurant chain has seen years of sales declines, it's no surprise that numerous locations have closed. While Eater reported that 15 locations closed in for not paying taxes, other locations closed without much explanation at all.
In , Greenville, South Carolina saw several of its Church's Chicken locations close with only handwritten notes on the doors asking customers to visit other locations.
As for why the locations closed, Church's didn't go into much detail, yet some sleuthing by Greenville News linked the restaurants to a foreclosure lawsuit. That's at least more information than the Church's Chicken fans of Mansfield, Ohio were given in A reporter with the Richland Source who thought they had picked up an "easy" story was given the runaround from every source and came up with diddly-squat for answers behind the local Church's Chicken closure.
While Church's Chicken may be eyeing better days ahead, just know that if your local Church's Chicken does shutter, the specific reason why may very well remain a mystery. Fast food can be a pretty cutthroat business and there's certainly something to be said for the old adage: there's strength in numbers.
It's not uncommon for restaurants to be part of the same chain , and for a number of years, Church's was part of what could best be described as a fried chicken power couple.
Popeyes and Church's might seem like they'd be sworn enemies, but in , they united their fried chicken powers as one via Red Lion Data. While the two restaurants operated separately, they were theoretically the second largest fried chicken chain — after KFC — in the United States.
The Popeyes and Church's partnership lasted for 15 years, but eventually, all good things come to a finger-lickin' end, and in , the chicken brand's parent company, AFC Enterprises, Inc. Head over to the menu page of the Church's Chicken website and you'll see a lot of the typical sides you might find at any fast food fried chicken joint: mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, biscuits, coleslaw, etc.
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