Ric's Kountry Kitchen began in the kitchen and restaurant of Rick Abernathy's mother Zula, in his small home town of Holdenville, Oklahoma. Rick came from hardy folks who not only cooked food to survive but cooked food to be loved and enjoyed by everyone. Rick has made his home in The Middle East for the last 30 years. He decided in 1997 to take all his years of experience and recipes amassed from mom's and dad's everywhere and opened Ric's Kountry Kitchen in Doha, Qatar on the 16th of August 1997. Soon, after, RKK in Juffair, Bahrain opened on the 18th of February in 2001. Ric's Kountry Kitchen was the first American restaurant of it's kind to open in The Middle East. Making real homemade American food for all to enjoy.