THIS IS THE STORY OF SOMEONE who, for many, was part man and part legend. Who could that be? It’s got to be Al Copeland—or “Big Al” as his family and friends preferred to call him—the founding father of fast-food giant Popeye’s. Over the course of a storied career, he was a force to be reckoned with and rose to notoriety first in Louisiana’s restaurant sphere and then beyond.
