In the 1990s, Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits owner AFC Enterprises purchased the franchise and converted most locations into Popeyes.

* AFC Enterprises, the franchisor of Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits

* Cheryl Bachelder, President, Popeyes ® Louisiana Kitchen and CEO, AFC Enterprises, Inc.

In 1998, AFC Enterprises purchased Seattle Coffee Holdings and began franchising the Seattle's Best Coffee brand.

AFC Enterprises sold SCC to Starbucks in July 2003, retaining franchise rights in eleven countries, Hawaii and U. S. military bases.

In 2011, Moddelmog was appointed as president of Church's Chicken, a division of Atlanta-based AFC Enterprises, making her the first female president of a quick service restaurant chain ( also known as fast food restaurants ).

Church's was owned by AFC Enterprises, along with Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and Cinnabon, through the end of 2004, when it was sold to Arcapita ( formerly Crescent Capital Investments ).

AFC Enterprises () is the Sandy Springs, Georgia-headquartered company that owns Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits.

AFC Enterprises is a publicly traded company.

Cinnabon was bought by AFC Enterprises, Inc., in 1998 for $ 65 million.

In 2004, AFC Enterprises, Inc., sold Cinnabon for $ 30. 3 million to FOCUS Brands, Inc., which is owned by the Atlanta-based private equity firm Roark Capital Group.

Often referred to as Popeyes and sometimes as Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits or Popeyes Chicken & Seafood, it was acquired by Sandy Springs, Georgia-based AFC Enterprises, originally America's Favorite Chicken Company, in 1993.

In 1989, Popeyes, then the third-largest chicken chain, merged with Church's Chicken, the second largest, though parent company AFC Enterprises operated the two chains separately.

Seattle Coffee Holdings was purchased in 1998 by AFC Enterprises and renamed Seattle Coffee Company.

It purchased Cinnabon from AFC Enterprises in 2004 and Schlotzsky's from Bobby Cox Companies in 2006.

( and later, for the then Athenian league club Wimbledon, now AFC Wimbledon ), an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth which he piloted himself.

He is the chairman and owner of Leeds United AFC.

All that was nearly overshadowed by the press feeding frenzy reporting and commenting on the rumor ( Between the AFC championship game up to and into the broadcast coverage of Super Bowl XXXI itself ) that iconic coach Bill Parcells was planning on breaking his contract with the New England Patriots because he did not get along well with owner Robert Kraft, who had helped turn around New England's image after years of ownership that was either dismal or absent.

In late 2004, AFC sold off its Church's Chicken division to Arcapita ( formerly Crescent Capital Investments ), a venture-capital firm that also is the parent of Caribou Coffee.

In November 2004, AFC sold those franchise rights ( along with Cinnabon ) to a newly-established affiliate of Roark Capital Group, FOCUS Brands, Inc.

AFC was forced to sell off its Seattle's Best Coffee division to Starbucks and in 2004 sold its international division and Cinnabon to FOCUS Brands, Inc.

AFC was formerly the franchiser of Seattle's Best Coffee and Cinnabon.

The Ravens have experienced great success in their brief history, making the playoffs eight times since 2000, and winning the AFC North three times ( 2003, 2006, and 2011 ).

The Browns were NFL champions again in 1964, but have since been only moderately successful, reaching the league's playoffs 15 times and appearing in the AFC championship game three times.

The Texans have fared better against the rest of the AFC, posting a record of 29-33 against AFC opponents from outside the South division.

The Jaguars also have rivalries with other teams that arose from the AFC Central days, most notably with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Since 1968, the Jets have appeared in the playoffs thirteen times, and in the AFC Championship Game four times, most recently losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010.

Though regular season meetings have been infrequent since then, the teams have met two more times in the playoffs, including in 2009 when the Colts and Jets met in the AFC Championship Game.

In the 34 years since then, the Chargers have made ten trips to the playoffs and four appearances in the AFC Championship game.

Most pundits said the AFC West was already decided and the Chargers would have to play for the wildcard.

Seattle is the only team to have played in the AFC ( American Football Conference ) and NFC Championship Games.

Feyenoord supporters are known to have a connection with fans of English Premier League club, Sunderland AFC.

The Patriots have also used the formation to directly snap the ball away from the quarterback, snapping it instead to a running back ( usually Kevin Faulk ); the Patriots scored a two-point conversion via such a direct snap to Faulk in Super Bowl XXXVIII and again against the Chargers in the AFC Divisional Playoffs.

Beeston is also home to several well established football clubs, including Beeston Amateur Football Club ( Beeston AFC ), who have two mens Saturday sides that play in the Nottinghamshire Senior League and the Midland Amateur Alliance respectively and Beeston Town FC who play their home games at Highfields and compete in Division One of the Long Eaton Sunday League.

AFC Telford have now regained a place in the top flight of non-league football.

Other teams which have achieved success at times include Israel ( no longer a member of the AFC ), Iraq, and Kuwait.

Ventura is hired to solve the case and discovers his first clue in the form of a rare triangular-cut orange amber stone, which he speculates to have fallen from a 1984 AFC Championship ring.

Seaham has also produced several gifted footballers, some of whom have gone on to play for Sunderland AFC, the team the vast majority of the local populace support.

In addition to the Super Bowl, several other playoff games have been played in the stadium, including the 1992 AFC Championship Game, which the Dolphins lost to the Buffalo Bills, 29 – 10.

Sports Interactive have had a relationship with AFC Wimbledon since the club's formation: Championship Manager 01-02 contains a pro-AFC Wimbledon message occasionally visible at start-up ( along with a similarly rare but now rather dated " Save Chip!

Each club will be allowed to have a total of four foreign players ; however, one slot is reserved for a player that derives from an AFC country other than Japan.

The term has come to represent people who follow the local football team Sunderland AFC, and may have been invented for this purpose.

CBS agreed to broadcast all games where an NFC team was on the road, NBC agreed to broadcast all games where an AFC team was on the road, and ABC agreed to broadcast Monday Night Football, making the NFL the first league to have a regular series of national telecasts in prime time.

It ’ s likely that the latter would have gone anyway when less than 2 months later the Committee of Sunderland AFC was reduced from 30 to 15 members.