Article: Kenny Rogers Roasters. (1994 Top Growth Companies) (Company Profile)

Roasters hopes to roost atop the rotisserie pecking order.

Like a rooster surveying the barnyard of rotisserie chicken chains, CEO John Brown Jr. enthusiastically crows about the prospects for Kenny Rogers Roasters.

"I expect us to be the CocaCola of the industry," he says. "They [Boston Chicken] can be Pepsi. We have 30 year' experience of seeing everything out there. We're food people. Maybe the video people can teach us a thing or two. But I think there is room for both of us."

GROWTH

Under the direction of former Kentucky governor and KFC alum Brown, Roasters has grown since its inception in 1991 to $115 million in ...

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