Rax Roast Beef
Rax Roast Beef has gone by a number of different names throughout the course of its history in the restaurant industry. The original name for this dish was Jax Roast Biff, and it was also known as Rix Roast Beef for a brief period of time. Rax had its most prosperous period during the 1980s, when salad bars and other types of food stations were introduced. Rax briefly rose to prominence as one of the country’s most successful retailers in the early 1990s, but mismanagement and other issues hindered the company’s growth. As of 2017, just a handful Rax restaurants were still in operation.
Rax Roast Beef
Claudia Sanders, The Colonel’s Lady
A better description of The Colonel’s Lady, Claudia Sanders, would be “the restaurant franchise that never was.” Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken Harlan Sanders had sold his stock in the company by the mid-1960s (but he retained his spokesman role). Sanders and his wife then launched a sit-down restaurant, Claudia Sanders, The Colonel’s Lady, which featured Sanders’ chicken and was named after Sanders’ wife. A lawsuit was filed against them by KFC’s owners when they were contemplating expanding the business into other locations. Finally, both sides struck an agreement that permitted the Sanders family to continue selling chicken in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Even now, this eatery is still in business.
Claudia Sanders
