The nation's best-known fried chicken chain is leaving its old Kentucky home for new digs in the Lone Star State.

KFC, the fast food chain formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is leaving the state where it all began. The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.

Kentucky is losing a piece of its identity as Kentucky Fried Chicken, known these days as just KFC, decamps to Texas nearly a century after its founder began serving his childhood favorite at a

KFC, formerly named Kentucky Fried Chicken, disappointed state leaders when it announced it was moving to Texas.