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"Bojangles' co-founder Jack Fulk dies at 78 Jack Fulk liked his chicken spicy, and he was a fanatic for made-from-scratch biscuits. In 1977, he took those traits and used them to co-found Bojangles' on West Boulevard in Charlotte. Even after the company was sold and he retired, Fulk's family stayed involved as major franchisees, and he continued to run a franchise himself. Fulk, 78, of Charlotte, died Wednesday. He had been ill. "He was always very driven, always working, even before he got into business for himself," said Fulk's daughter, Donna Haddock. "He was a perfectionist when he came to the food part. He was absolutely fanatical about the biscuits." As Fulk put it in a 2007 interview with the Observer: "Good food, that's all you need. People like it, and they come back and back and back." Fulk lived and worked in Winston-Salem before he moved to Wilkesboro and opened his first Hardee's franchise in 1971. While running the Hardee's, Fulk developed a recipe for made-from-scratch biscuits. A few years later, he and business partner Richard Thomas saw an opportunity to open a chicken restaurant at West Boulevard and South Tryon Street. That first store was a walk-in location with no seating. Fulk sold his Hardee's franchise and got to work developing his new restaurant. "Daddy worked really hard on the Cajun-spiced chicken," recalled Haddock. "It's a lot milder now than when he started out." And, of course, the biscuits were central. Adding them to the mix initially lifted sales by 60 percent. Fulk would joke that the chain's slogan should have been "Famous Biscuits n' Chicken," instead of the other way around. Randy Kibler, Bojangles' president and CEO, said Fulk really understood customers, and was central to developing the signature Cajun flavorings. "He was personally responsible for developing the products, flavor profiles as well as the creation and presentation of the Bojangles' brand," Kibler said. The restaurant caught on, and they opened a new location the next year. The chain grew to more than 350 locations by the time Fulk retired in 1985. Fulk's family got involved, and his daughter and her husband now run a string of Bojangles' from Virginia to the Raleigh-Durham area. His grandson is a Bojangles' franchise owner in Alabama. "We just can't seem to get away from chicken and biscuits," Haddock said Friday. Even after retiring from the company, Fulk ran a Bojangles' franchise in Jonesville, near Winston-Salem, Haddock said. Bojangles' Executive Vice President Eric Newman said Fulk's biscuit style is now imitated at restaurants around the country. When he's noticed competitors' products from Maine to California, "I've thought about Jack, and the impact he's had on the national cuisine," said Newman. Bojangles' is still expanding, with about 500 locations, including a new one in Washington, D.C. Kibler put it simply: "There would not be a Bojangles' if there hadn't been a Jack Fulk." "

would a good night sweet prince be the hulk?

4/2/2011 10:29:04 AM

4/2/2011 10:31:06 AM

they should have kept it as spicy as he wanted it

4/2/2011 10:34:48 AM

I might have to get some BoJo's in his honor today

4/2/2011 10:35:46 AM

The Bo-Spice finally got him.

4/2/2011 10:36:26 AM

Today we are all 4 piece supremes

4/2/2011 10:48:34 AM

now I want Bojangles

4/2/2011 10:57:36 AM

For breakfast I had an egg and cheese biscuit combo.

R.I.P.

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"4 PIECE SUPREME"

4/2/2011 11:09:44 AM

what a legend

4/2/2011 11:45:25 AM

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"they should have kept it as spicy as he wanted it"

Amen, brotha. I hate that restaurants sell out to cater to the tastes of weak tongued northerner's/mid-westerners.

4/2/2011 11:56:27 AM

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"Today we are all 4 piece supremes"

4/2/2011 11:58:40 AM

Aww

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"Today we are all 4 piece supremes"

4/2/2011 12:02:22 PM

Fulkin' A

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"now I want Bojangles"

But my town doesn't have Bojangles

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4/2/2011 12:17:20 PM

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"Daddy"

4/2/2011 12:18:40 PM

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"While running the Hardee's, Fulk developed a recipe for made-from-scratch biscuits. "

Wouldn't that make the recipe property of Hardees?

Also, RIP I'll have to get a 4 piece supreme in rememberance

4/2/2011 12:35:37 PM

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""Today we are all 4 piece supremes""

4/2/2011 12:35:55 PM

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"Wouldn't that make the recipe property of Hardees?"

How?

4/2/2011 12:39:22 PM

I'm thinking in terms of patent laws that I agreed to when I joined my company. If I get an invention, it belongs to the company because they provided the environment for coming up with the idea. My name is on it but the company owns the rights to it

4/2/2011 12:48:15 PM

I never signed one of those as an employee of hardees, I doubt the managers sign them either.

People working at the hardees test kitchen or whatever might have to, but who knows.

4/2/2011 12:58:49 PM

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"Today we are all 4 piece supremes"

4/2/2011 1:36:43 PM

has anyone photochopped a ribbon picture with the boj logo that we can all make our facebook profile picture?

4/2/2011 2:37:15 PM

I bought 4 peice supremes in his honor.

4/2/2011 2:38:48 PM

shitty job, but somethin like this

4/2/2011 2:43:37 PM

POUR OUT A LITTLE SWEET TEA

4/2/2011 3:03:01 PM

haha that was my status update

4/2/2011 3:09:19 PM

4/2/2011 3:13:42 PM