The man who brought restaurant chain KFC to Great Britain, and a former friend of "the Colonel," says he "he would not go in there" these days. Raymond Allen, 87, opened the United Kingdom's first KFC in Preston, Lancashire decades ago. This week, however, he told London's The Telegraph: "We have got one where I now live, but I would not go in there. I don't use it and I think it is dreadful.