Trending this week: KFC is expanding its Next Generation store concept – Nation’s Restaurant News

This week’s top story was, NRN editors discuss Popeyes’ 2021 sales decline, RBI earnings and that viral chicken sandwich.

Also, KFC is looking to make a comeback with major development plans for the Yum Brands-owned fried chicken brand, and a significant part of that will be the smaller, off-premises-focused Next Generation store prototypes.

According to court records, federal agents raided the home of Wiederhorn’s son and daughter-in-law Thayer and Brooke, the latter of whom is not named in the court filings, and took away possible evidence including phones, digital storage devices, tax documents and other records.

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