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Posted on 16 October 2013.

  Andy Atkinson had made the same journey to work for 30 years as the franchisee of his KFC stores in the Blackpool area. Then one day he got an offer for the business from a potential buyer that he and his two co-directors couldn’t refuse.Atkinson, who was on the KFC Council, a member of its Advertising Board, and secretary of the KFC Franchisee Association, decided to sell. It wasn’t an easy choice as he had firm roots in the fast food business – his uncle was a pioneer having opened Britain’s first KFC in 1965 at Preston. What does someone like Atkinson with all his experience turn to when...