KFC belongs to Yum! Yum Group is the world's largest restaurant group, with more than 33,000 chain stores and 840,000 employees in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. It owns world-renowned restaurant brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, which are ranked No. 1 in the world in the fields of cooked chicken, pizza, Mexican-style food and seafood catering respectively.
KFC and PepsiCo have formed a strategic alliance, the restaurant fixed sales of carbonated beverages provided by PepsiCo (but in some countries exceptions, such as Japan, South Korea, KFC on the sale of Coca-Cola). [KFC is the world's largest fried chicken fast-food chain, and its logo, KFC, is an acronym for Kentucky Fried Chicken, which has become a well-known brand worldwide.
In 1930, the founder of KFC, Harlan Sanders, was born in his hometown of Kendall, USA. In 1930, Harlan Sanders, the founder of KFC, opened a restaurant in his home state of Kentucky, USA. During this period, Sanders studied the new method of fried chicken, and finally succeeded in inventing eleven kinds of spices and unique cooking technology synthesis of the secret recipe, its unique flavor by the customer's popularity, the restaurant business is increasingly prosperous, the secret recipe has been inherited to this day. In recognition of his contribution to his home state, Kentucky awarded him the honorary title of Colonel Sanders.
The image of Colonel Sanders in a suit, with white hair and a goatee, has become the best symbol of the KFC international brand.
Colonel Sanders' success began when he was 40 years old and operating a Corbin gas station in Kentucky. In order to increase revenue, he began making his own snacks and serving them to passing travelers, and the business grew slowly and steadily as his reputation for cooking attracted them to the station. As his reputation grew, then-Governor Ruby Laffon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935, recognizing his contributions to Kentucky dining.
The Colonel's most famous specialty was the fried chicken he developed and invented. It's KFC's most popular product today, made with a magical eleven-spice recipe that the Colonel developed over a decade of research, and is a finger-licking delight.
The delicious fried chicken has attracted many customers. However, the traditional method of frying chicken meant that customers had to wait 30 minutes for their food. By 1939, this dilemma was answered when the Colonel visited a pressure cooker demonstration. The Colonel purchased a pressure cooker and, after experimenting with cooking time, pressure, and adding oil, discovered a unique method of frying chicken. The chicken fried under pressure was the best he had ever tasted, and Kentucky Fried Chicken still uses this pressure cooker technique today.
The Colonel's business faced a crisis in the mid-1950s when the road next to his Sanders Cafe restaurant was cut through by a new highway, forcing him to sell the restaurant. The Colonel was 66 years old at the time, but he felt he was too young to be on Social Security, and it turned his career around.
The colonel set out on the road in his 1946 Ford with his eleven spice recipes and his right-hand man, the pressure cooker. He traveled to restaurants throughout Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, selling the recipe and method of fried chicken to interested restaurants, and in 1952 the first licensed KFC restaurant was established in Salt Lake City. Amazingly, in just five years, the Colonel had developed a chain of 400 restaurants in the United States and Canada, which was the beginning of the world of restaurant franchising.
KFC is the world's largest fried chicken fast food chain, with more than 11,000 restaurants around the world. These restaurants can be found in more than 80 countries, from the Great Wall of China to the bustling downtown area of Paris, the picturesque city center of Sofia, and sunny Puerto Rico, where the KFC logo can be found.
More than 10 million customers around the world enjoy KFC's Original Chicken, pioneered by Colonel Sanders nearly half a century ago and made with eleven mysterious recipes for breading and frying, in KFC restaurants every day. Customers can also savor more than 400 other items at KFC restaurants around the world, such as the Kuwaiti chicken patty and the Japanese silky fish sandwich.
KFC in order to meet the needs of consumers at different levels, the way of customer service is also changing, in addition to in-store meals, takeout, from Oakland to Albuquerque, in the United States there are more than 300 in other countries more and more cities have been carried out home delivery business. And in some U.S. cities, KFC restaurants have partnered with the group's sister restaurants, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, to offer customers meals at the same time at the same restaurant outlets located in busy neighborhoods. College students from Puerto Rico to California now include KFC fast food in their daily recipes.
More than 60 years ago, KFC's founder, Col. Sanders, invented what is now known as "The Family Dinner Alternative" - a complete meal for families who don't have time to cook at home or don't want to - and called it "Sunday dinner, seven days a week.
Today, the Colonel's spirit and legacy have come to symbolize the KFC brand, and the KFC logo, designed in the image of Colonel Sanders, has become one of the world's most distinctive and recognizable brands.
KFC belongs to the world's largest restaurant group, Yum Global Restaurants, which includes a chain of nearly 30,000 world-renowned KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in more than 100 countries and territories.
KFC entered the ancient capital of Beijing in 1987, a city with a long history of food culture, and began its history in the world's most populous country.
On November 12, 1987, KFC opened its first restaurant in China in the bustling Qianmen district of Beijing. Taking this as a starting point, KFC began to feel and learn from Chinese society and market, and gradually created a management model with Chinese characteristics. In 1992, the total number of restaurants nationwide was 10; by 1995, it had grown to 71. On June 25, 1996, KFC China's 100th restaurant was established in Beijing. This was a milestone, marking the beginning of a more steady development of KFC in China.