{"id":8012,"date":"2013-02-11T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2013-02-11T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T13:56:34","slug":"taking-the-chicken-out-of-kfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/taking-the-chicken-out-of-kfc\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking The Chicken Out Of KFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021113_1353_TakingTheCh1.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KFC&#8217;s plans to expand into African countries are facing one big hurdle: chickens. Drew Hinshaw writes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken farmers in Ghana don&#8217;t meet KFC&#8217;s professional standards and so chains are forced to import their chicken from other countries.<\/li>\n<li>However Ghana&#8217;s currency is depreciating which makes imports more expensive, menu prices higher, and sales lower.<\/li>\n<li>To cut costs KFCs in Ghana are encouraging patrons to use shito \u2013 a local hot sauce \u2013 instead of more expensive imported ketchup.<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria doesn&#8217;t allow the import of chickens. This has driven Nigerian KFCs to add fish to the menu.<\/li>\n<li>Kenya doesn&#8217;t allow chicken imports either. There is just one local supplier who meets the chain&#8217;s professional standards and they charge a large premium for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the struggles for KFC and what chain owners have to say about it, as well as why developing a professional domestic chicken industry will be difficult for African countries click <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324442304578235602613061228.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324442304578235602613061228.html\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/02\/assorted-links-701.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFC&#8217;s plans to expand into African countries are facing one big hurdle: chickens. Drew Hinshaw writes: Chicken farmers in Ghana don&#8217;t meet KFC&#8217;s professional standards and so chains are forced to import their chicken from other countries. However Ghana&#8217;s currency is depreciating which makes imports more expensive, menu prices higher, and sales lower. To cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021113_1353_TakingTheCh1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8015,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions\/8015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}