<P> In July 2014, Chinese authorities closed down the Shanghai operations of the OSI Group, amidst allegations that it had supplied KFC with expired meat . Yum! immediately terminated its contract with the supplier, and stated that the revelation had led to a "significant (and) negative" decline in sales . </P> <P> KFC opens its first outlet in Tibet in March 2016 . </P> <P> There are 350 KFC outlets in India . The company has adapted the standard KFC offerings to Indian tastes and the menu options in India include the Hot & Crispy Chicken and Fiery Grilled bucket options, Chicken Zinger Burger, Rice Bowlz, the more recently launched 5 - in - 1 Meal Box and a range of shakes called Krushers . The business was refranchised in October 2015 after Yum concluded a year - and - a-half - long exercise to reorganize its business under larger, well - capitalized franchisees . In this regard, about a third of its outlets, operated by several of its franchisees, have been sold to a newly formed entity--Sapphire Foods India Pvt. Ltd . The new entity is owned by a consortium of four private equity funds, led by Samara Capital . The other investors are CX Partners, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and a fourth fund, said a top executive at the local arm of the American food company . </P> <P> The first Indian KFC was a two - storey outlet on the fashionable Brigade Road in Bangalore in June 1995 . According to journalist Michael White, the company could not have chosen a "more difficult venue for its maiden entrée into the country". Bangalore housed the headquarters of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, one of the most influential, vocal and anti-foreign investment farmers' associations in the country . The first outlet suffered protests from left wing, anti-globalisation and environmental campaigners, as well as local farmers, who objected to the chain bypassing local producers . Many Indians were concerned about the onslaught of consumerism, the loss of national self - sufficiency, and the disruption of indigenous traditions . The protests came to a head in August 1995, when the Bangalore outlet was repeatedly ransacked . The KFC outlet in Bangalore demanded, and received, a police van permanently parked outside for a year . The outlet was closed on September 13, 1995 by local authorities, who claimed the company used illegally high amounts of monosodium glutamate (MSG) in its food . The outlet re-opened a few hours later as the result of an appeal by KFC to the Karnataka High Court . The company stated the recipe was no different than that used in any other KFC store . Rural activist M.D. Nanjundaswamy claimed KFC would adversely affect the health of the impoverished, by diverting grain from poor people to make the more profitable animal feed . Environmentalist Maneka Gandhi joined the anti-KFC movement . A second outlet opened in Delhi, but was closed by the authorities throughout November, purportedly for health reasons, but more likely to avoid a repetition of the Bangalore incident . The Delhi outlet soon closed permanently . </P>

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