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Originally Posted by Buff

No. It closed quite a few years ago. The last true Fine Dining restaurant in Lethbridge.

It wasn't attached to KFC physically. Sven Erickson was a business partner with Col. Sanders though. Sven's daughter and son-in-law took over the business. Due to the connection with Col. Sanders they had exclusive rights to KFC in Lethbridge, and they didn't have to follow all the rules of the corporation. That ended sometime in the early 2000s. Sven's grandsons now run the KFCs in Lethbridge. They closed the restaurant around 2005 and the Keg is now in it's place. They kept the basement and ran their catering business for another 3 to 5 years, but are now strictly KFC. They sold the catering to Country Kitchen Catering. So Keg is upstairs and banquet catering can still be done downstairs. Timelines aren't 100% accurate, I'm just going off my aging memory.

I worked at KFC in the mid 90s and am now related through marriage. My wife also worked at KFC and when we started dating it was weird to go to family functions but have your bosses there.

KFC on 3rd Ave had a bakery attached to it, and the bakery did all the baking for Sven Erickson's and their KFC restaurants. They had quite the assortment of baked goods sold at KFCs in Lethbridge and Taber, and you wouldn't see those at any other KFC. I don't remember which came first, but the restaurant closed and their deal with KFC changed and they no longer needed the bakery for the restaurant. The KFCs were all renovated. They closed one KFC, changed another to a KFC/Taco Bell, and now a new KFC has opened up in the mall but they don't own that one.

Taber and Lethbridge had the best KFC anywhere in the 80's and 90's