1. On September 9, 1890, Harlan Sanders was born on a farm near Henryville, Indiana, USA. In 1980, Colonel Sanders unfortunately passed away at the age of 90 due to leukemia.

2. KFC belongs to the world's largest restaurant group - Yum! Global Restaurant Group. The group includes nearly 30,000 chain world-famous KFC restaurants and Pizza Hut in more than 100 countries and regions. Restaurants, Taco Bell Restaurants. There are KFC, Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Oriental White.

3. In 1930, Harlan Sanders, the founder of KFC, opened a restaurant in his hometown of Kentucky, USA. During this period, Sanders devoted himself to researching new methods of fried chicken, and finally succeeded in inventing a secret recipe composed of eleven spices and unique cooking techniques. Its unique taste was well received by customers, and the restaurant business was booming day by day, and the secret recipe was inherited. to date. In recognition of his contribution to his hometown, the state of 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 when he ran a Corbin gas station in Kentucky. In order to increase his revenue, he began to make various snacks and provide them to passing tourists. Because his reputation for cooking delicious food attracted passing tourists, the business has grown slowly and steadily since then. As his reputation grew, Ruby Laffon, the then governor of Kentucky, awarded him the title of Colonel of Kentucky in 1935 in recognition of his contribution to Kentucky's catering.

The colonel's most famous specialty is the fried chicken he carefully developed and invented. This is the most popular product of KFC today. It is cooked by the colonel after ten years of research, using a magic formula of eleven spices.

The delicious fried chicken attracts many customers. However, the traditional fried chicken method requires customers to wait thirty minutes before enjoying their food. By 1939, the puzzle was answered when the colonel visited a pressure cooker demonstration. The colonel bought a pressure cooker and went home. After doing various experiments on cooking time, pressure and oil, he finally discovered a unique method of frying chicken. The fried chicken fried under pressure was the most delicious fried chicken he had ever tasted. To this day, KFC Fried Chicken still maintains this secret of using a pressure cooker.

The Colonel's business faced a crisis in the mid-1950s when the road next to his Sanders Cafe restaurant was passed by a new highway, forcing him to sell the restaurant. The colonel was already 66 years old at the time, but he felt he was still young and did not need to rely on social welfare benefits to live on. This turned out to be a turning point in his career.

The colonel used his old Ford car produced in 1946 to set out on the road carrying his eleven spice recipes and his right-hand assistant-the pressure cooker. He went to restaurants across Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky to sell fried chicken recipes and methods to interested restaurants. The first authorized KFC restaurant was established in Salt Lake City in 1952. Surprisingly, in just five years, Colonel's has developed 400 chain stores in the United States and Canada, which was the beginning of the world's catering franchise.