It is not an actual franchise in the typical manner; every "Kennedy" named chicken restaurant is independently owned and operated by different individuals but consist of essentially the same menu.

[3] After studying engineering in Baku, Azerbaijan (then a republic of the Soviet Union), he immigrated to the United States in 1977 and began working at a New York City fast food restaurant chain by the name of Kansas Fried Chicken, founded by African-American entrepreneur Horace Bullard.

[1] After spending about three years learning how to run a fast food business, he decided to open his own fried chicken restaurant with equivalent quality but prices 15-20% cheaper.

Some locations have added Middle Eastern dishes such as kebabs with rice to their menus,[6] but Kennedy's and Crown's specialties are the deep-fried chicken (described as "not too dry or too soggy").

In 2005 Abdul Haye, an Afghan immigrant since 1989 and a resident of Whitestone, Queens in New York City, registered Kennedy Fried Chicken as a trademark.