KFC was founded by Harland Sanders, who started selling fried chicken in roadside restaurants in Corbin, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Saunders realized the potential of the concept of restaurant franchise. 1952, the first franchise restaurant of Kentucky Fried Chicken opened in Utah.
Chicken has become popular in the fast food industry, competing with the dominant hamburger in the market. Saunders is famous as "Colonel Saunders" and has become a famous figure in American cultural history. KFC widely uses Saunders as its advertising image. However, the rapid expansion of the company brought down the aging Saunders. 1964, he sold the company to a group of investors, mainly john brown and Jack C. Massey. ?
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Harland David Sanders was born in 1890 and grew up in Henriville, Indiana, USA. When Saunders was 5 years old, his father died, forcing his mother to work in a cannery. As the eldest son, he took care of his two siblings. At the age of seven, Saunders' mother taught him how to cook.
Sanders left home at the age of 12, and engaged in different industries, with mixed success and failure. 1930, he took over the Shell gas station on U.S. Route 25, which is located outside North Corbin, Kentucky (a small town on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains). Here, he provides food for tourists according to the formula he learned from his childhood: fried chicken and other dishes, such as steak and country ham.
After four years of volunteering at his own table, Saunders bought a bigger gas station at the other end of the road and expanded it to six tables. Until 1936, because of Sanders' achievements, Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon awarded him the honorary title of Kentucky colonel.
However, when Saunders was 66 years old, he was forced to sell his restaurant and live on social insurance because of the road construction on American Route 75. And that money was not enough, so he traveled all over the country to promote his fried chicken method. If the restaurant likes the taste of fried chicken, pay 5 cents to the colonel for each piece of chicken signed up for sale.
Saunders moved the company's headquarters to Shelbyville, Kentucky, and withdrew from the kitchen in 1964, selling the business to a group of investors, but he always acted as the spokesman of the company, and made many TV advertisements from 1950 to 1970. Saunders died in 1980.
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