harland sanders, the founder of KFC, was born on September 9th, 1891 on a farm near Henriville, Indiana, USA. My family is not very rich, but I can get by. However, at the age of 6, his father died, leaving his mother and three children to live hard. In order to make a living, my mother had to take many jobs outside. She had to peel potatoes in the food factory during the day and continue to sew clothes for others at night. Naturally, she didn't have time to take care of her young children. Sandoz was the boss, and he shouldered the heavy responsibility of taking care of her siblings and sharing her worries for her mother. When his mother was not at home during the day, Dr. Xiao Shan had to cook by himself. After a year, he learned to cook 21 dishes and became a well-known cooking expert. At the age of 12, his mother remarried, but the relationship between Sandoz and his stepfather was not very good. He didn't want to study any more until the sixth grade, and the air at home was so stuffy that Sandoz decided to go to work and change the environment again. He came to work on a farm in Greenwood. Although it was hard work, he was able to maintain personal food and clothing. Since then, he has changed countless jobs, so to speak, he has tried everything, worked as a painter, a fireman, sold insurance, and served as a soldier for a while. Later, he got a degree in correspondence law, which enabled him to be a sheriff in Little Rock, Kansas for a while. At the age of 41, Sandoz came to Kentucky and opened a Corbin gas station. Because there were many customers coming and going to refuel, Sandoz had an idea when he saw the hungry faces of these long-distance travelers. Why didn't I make some convenient food by the way to meet the requirements of these people? Besides, his craft is good, and his wife and children often praise him. As soon as he thought about it, he cooked some daily meals in the small kitchen of the gas station to attract customers. During this period, Sandoz introduced its own special food, which was the prototype of KFC fried chicken, which was later famous in the world. Because of its delicious and unique taste, fried chicken was warmly welcomed soon, and guests praised it. Some people even came not to refuel, but to eat fried chicken at Kebin gas station. At the beginning, Sandoz wanted to expand the business of his gas station, but now the reputation of fried chicken has surpassed that of gas stations. Due to the increasing number of customers, gas stations can no longer hold it. Sandoz opened a Sandoz restaurant across the street to specialize in his specialty-fried chicken. In order to ensure the quality, Sandoz put on an apron and began to fry, and invested in the expansion of a large restaurant that can accommodate 142 people. In this way, he created a primary fried chicken market. In the next few years, he managed and studied the special ingredients of fried chicken (including 11 kinds of herbs and spices), which made the fried chicken skin form a thin, almost unheated shell, and the chicken was moist and delicious. So far, this ingredient formula is still in use, but the number of seasonings has increased to 41. And this is Kentucky's most important secret weapon, just like Coca-Cola's formula. By 1935, Sandoz's fried chicken was famous far and wide. In order to thank him for his special contribution to the state's diet, Governor Ruby Lafon of Kentucky officially awarded him the rank of Colonel of Kentucky, so people called him "Dear Colonel Sanders" until now.

Although the business is good, Sandoz is not satisfied with this achievement. He is ingenious and goes one step further by building a motel next to the restaurant. In this way, before the famous Howard and Johnson Motels were built, Sandoz became the first enterprise consortium integrating accommodation and refueling. However, with the increase of customers, Sandoz felt his lack of management experience, so he went to Cornell University in new york to study hotel management courses, which enabled him to solve the hotel management problems he faced in the future, but there were still problems. With the increasing reputation of Sandoz restaurant and more and more guests, it is not an easy task to fry chicken and serve it quickly for so many customers. He is always scrambling to fry chicken for customers, while listening to the customers who are in a hurry complaining. Sandoz is worried about this. What should he do? At this moment, an accidental pressure cooker exhibition gave him an inspiration. The pressure cooker can greatly shorten the cooking time without burning the food, which is the best thing for his fried chicken. In 1939, Sandoz bought a pressure cooker. After doing various experiments on cooking time, pressure and refueling, he finally found a unique method of fried chicken. This fried chicken under pressure is the most delicious fried chicken he has ever tasted, and KFC fried chicken still maintains this recipe of using pressure cooker. And as he imagined, it took only 1.5 minutes to fry a chicken, and the fried chicken with short time and good taste suddenly became a hot topic of discussion at that time, and many diners flocked to it. Even during the Great Depression in the 1931s, Sandoz's business was still booming. However, the outbreak of "World War II" severely hit Sandoz, the government implemented oil rationing, and gas stations were forced to close. Subsequently, the hotel was forced to close because of the new highway across Kentucky passing through Sandoz Hotel. This sudden change pushed Sanders to the abyss, and he even used up all his bank deposits in order to repay his debts. Harlan Sanders, a respected colonel in the past, suddenly changed from a rich man who was respected by everyone to a poor man who was worthless. At this time, Sanders was 66 years old, and all he could rely on was a monthly relief of $115. However, Sandoz didn't want to end his life. Besides, that little relief money could not support his life, and he had to rely on himself. He looked at the first social security check given to him by the government and said to himself, "The government will give me 115 yuan every month to make a living. There must be something I can do for myself and others. "

Sandoz thought hard about what to do to get out of trouble. He remembered that he once sold fried chicken to a restaurant owner in Utah, and paid Sanders 5 cents for each chicken sold. Sandoz, who is in trouble, thinks that maybe someone else will do this, and maybe this is a new starting point for his career. In this way, Colonel Sanders started his second venture. He took a pressure cooker, a 51-pound cooking bucket, and drove his old Ford on the road ... Wearing a white suit and a BlackBowKnot, a white-haired colonel dressed as a southern gentleman stopped at the gate of every restaurant, from Kentucky to Ohio, peddling the secret recipe of fried chicken and demanding to perform fried chicken for the boss and clerk. If they like fried chicken, sell them a franchise, provide ingredients and teach them how to fry it. At first, no one believed him, and the restaurant owner even thought it was a waste of time to listen to this strange old man's nonsense. For two whole years, he was rejected for 1119 times, and finally when he walked into a restaurant for the 1111th time, he got a sentence "All right!" The answer. Since then, with Sandoz's insistence, his ideas have been accepted by more and more people. In 1952, the first authorized KFC restaurant in Salt Lake City was established, which was the beginning of the franchise of catering in the world. Then, to the surprise of more people, Sandoz's business snowballed. In just five years, he has developed 411 chain stores in America and Canada ...