Chester’s International is the fifth-largest fried chicken quick-service restaurant in the U.S. with more than 1,700 locations and operations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, and Canada. KFCs Fried chicken with French fries. ... Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... World map depicting Caribbean: West Indies redirects here. ... Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ... European redirects here. ...

Chester’s uses only fresh chicken that is never frozen and that is specially marinated overnight and then double-breaded using a proprietary family recipe and offers bone-in, tenders, and potato wedges as well as sandwiches, wraps, salads, breakfast, and sides. Marination, also known as marinading, is the process of soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking. ... Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ... Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, commonly grown for its starchy tuber. ... An Italian sandwich. ... A Wrap is a food product consisting of meat, lettuce or other traditional sandwich fillings wrapped in a pita or tortilla shell. ... Salad Platter Salad is a term applied broadly to many food preparations that are a mixture of chopped or sliced ingredients. ... Breakfast is a meal, preceding lunch or dinner and usually eaten in the morning. ...

W.O. Giles founded Chester’s in October 1965 and adopted Chester the Chicken as the emerging foodservice company’s mascot, named for the Chester Goode character on Gunsmoke, a favorite show of Giles. Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, Florida. ... The cast of radios Gunsmoke: Howard McNear (Doc), William Conrad (Matt), Georgia Ellis (Kitty) and Parley Baer (Chester) Gunsmoke was a long-running American old-time radio and television Western drama created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. ...

Today, Chester’s is predominately found as a foodservice offering in convenience stores and travel plazas across the country. The company began franchising its concept in July 2004 and has grown to in-line locations in shopping plazas and mall food courts. It has been suggested that Party store be merged into this article or section. ... Plaza is a Spanish word related to field which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. ... Food court at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. ...

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