KFC story began at the turn of last century, when a young boy, Harland Sanders, became an accomplished cook through ‘family necessity’.
He spent considerable years doing casual work and serving in the United States Army, where he received the title ‘Colonel.’
Anyway, at age forty, Colonel Sanders purchased a service station, motel and café in a small town in Kentucky.
Over the next ten years he tried different seasonings to flavor his chicken.
From this experimentation evolved ‘his secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique which is still used today’.
He sold the business when the town was bypassed by a highway.
He then travelled the United States by car, cooking chicken for restaurant owners and their employees.
If the reaction was favorable Sanders entered into a handshake agreement in a deal which stipulated a payment to him of a nickel for each chicken the restaurant sold.
By the age of sixty five the Colonel had 600 Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchise outlets dotted across the United States and Canada.
This as 1964, the year is which he sold the American business for $2 million , leading to another rags to riches story.
Colonel Sanders of KFC
