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Koo Koo Roo announced a big comeback. Then it went dark.
A Koo Koo Roo in 2008. (Photo by Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Two years ago, Los Angeles celebrated a local comeback story: Koo Koo Roo, the skinless chicken chain that peppered the landscape in the 1990s before shuttering in 2014, was coming back.
But just as quickly as it reappeared, Koo Koo Roo vanished again. And the brand is now being flame-broiled on social media by impatient fans: “LA was fed a Koo Koo Roo lie,” reads the title of a recent thread on the Los Angeles Reddit.
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