Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken celebrates 50 years with giveaways

Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken is celebrating its 50th anniversary with chances to win gift certificates ranging from $5 to $50, and local franchise owners are giving away four tickets to the Quaker State 400 NASCAR race.

Lee's Famous Recipe — founded in 1966 in Lima, Ohio, by Lee Cummings, the nephew of KFC founder Col. Harlan Sanders — will mark its half-century on National Fried Chicken Day on Wednesday, July 6. The chain, now based in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is encouraging customers to visit the Lee's Famous Recipe Facebook page and its Twitter page, to enter to win gift certificates of between $5 and $50, drawn randomly each day through July 6.

In addition, the Lee’s Famous Recipe franchise-owned restaurants that operate in the Miami Valley will give away four tickets to the Quaker State 400 NASCAR race, to be held July 9 at Kentucky Speedway. Entry forms are available at Lee’s Famous Recipe restaurants in the Dayton-Springfield region. The winner will be announced July 6.

Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken operates 135 locations in 12 states.

The Lee’s system has reported 25 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth and saw a 7.7 percent growth in 2015 system sales over 2014, company officials said in a release.

Far Hills Development (FHD) is the local franchisee of 13 Lee’s restaurants in Montgomery, Greene and Warren counties. FRFC Springfield is the franchisee of seven Lee’s restaurants in Miami, Clark, Logan, Shelby and Champaign counties.

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