Sleep Outfitters to Fill Kent Road KFC Vacancy

Sleep Outfitters is asking to add onto the former KFC building.

City Council will vote tonight to allow Sleep Outfitters to move into and expand on the former KFC building on Kent Road, according to Planning Director Rob Kurtz. Sleep Outfitters is a mattress gallery. A settlement between KFC Corp. and a franchise owner in the area shut the fast food restaurants down in April 2012.  Kurtz said Sleep Outfitters wants to add a 1,200-square foot addition so the building would be 3,900 square feet total. Proprietors have agreed to re-paint the outside, repair the bridge walls and install awings.  The only other change will be the elimination of six parking spaces, Kurtz said. "In 2010, KFC sued Rao’s Hospitality, Gita Rao and Ganesh Rao Ponneri, alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract. KFC …

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Debbie S.

12:07 am on Saturday, January 26, 2013

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Bye, Colonel Sanders

The KFC in Stow will close soon as the result of a settlement between KFC Corp. and a franchise owner.