How to Survive a Public Brand Scandal and Recover Customers’ Trust

A recipe for minimizing the fallout

It was a chicken joke of epic proportions, but it took a while for the punch line to land.

For nearly two weeks last month, nearly 900 KFC franchises in the U.K. were unable to obtain fresh chicken parts thanks to a cock-up with the company’s new delivery firm.

KFC U.K. needed to acknowledge the problem, and it knew that the usual bland corporate apology would not satisfy its hangry customers. So the U.K. subsidiary’s agency of record, Mother London, decided to go extra crispy.

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This story first appeared in the March 12, 2018, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.