KFC Is Upping It’s Chicken Game With A “Saucy” New Concept

For decades, burgers and fries dominated the fast-food game. They still play a very prominent role, but chicken has had a bit of a renaissance in recent years. With the popularity of chicken sandwiches, nuggets, and strips, lots of restaurants are upping their chicken game. McDonald’s recently announced that its snack wraps will return, and Taco Bell launched new chicken nuggets. The OG chicken king, KFC, decided to go big and will launch a spinoff concept, Saucy, in Orlando. The new restaurant will feature tenders and 11 sauces, a nod to the colonel’s 11 herbs and spices.

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KFC Chief New Concept Officer Christophe Poirier explained the new concept in a release. “Everyone is obsessed with sauce – more is more. With Saucy, we’ve taken KFC’s famous Original Recipe® and amplified it with a brand-new concept that lets consumers play with flavor. You can pick a combo, choose a flight of sauces or, my personal favorite, mix sauces and sides to create your perfect meal. We’re sauce people, not math people, but we tried to calculate it and there seems to be over 4,000 different ways you could order at Saucy and have a different flavor experience every time.”

The 11 sauce varieties include

·       Chimichurri Ranch

·       Peri Peri Ranch

·       Jalapeno Pesto Ranch

·       Smokey Bacon Ranch

·       Thai Sweet’ N Spicy

·       Sweet’ N Saucy BBQ

·       Saucy’s Sauce

·       Spicy Mango Chutney

·       Saucy Ranch

·       Creole Honey Mustard

·       Sweet Teriyaki

Plus, Saucy will offer customers some fantastic drink options.

·       Passion Fruit + Orange + Guava Refresher

·       Hot Honey Watermelon Refresher

·       Peach-Mango Lemonade

·       Peach-Mango Lemonade Freeze

·       Blue Raspberry Freeze

·       Tropical Black Tea

·       Classic Iced Tea

Saucy shared a video from their launch party on Instagram and the restaurant looks like KFC’s groovy cousin. Orlando food blogger @felixxeats loved it. “I had an amazing time ! Can’t wait to go back and get saucy all over again!”

Saucy by KFC opens on December 23 in Orlando.  

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