History of KFC

Kentucky Fried Chicken ® was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders (born on 9 September 1890) at the age of sixty-five. KFC ® is one of the largest global business food service industry and is widely recognized around the world as the face of Colonel Sanders. Each year, more than a billion chicken dinner served featuring KFC ® Colonel's "finger lickin 'good" recipe special. At this Colonel industry has spread to more than eighty countries and territories around the world.

Story of Colonel Sanders

At 6 years old, his father died. His mother was not able to work anymore, and young Harland had to keep his younger brother who was only 3 years old. In this condition he had to cook for her family. At the age of 7 he was a good chef in some places. At age 10 he got his first job with a farm near 2 dollars a month salary. When he was 12 years old his mother remarried and she died in the house where he lived near Henryville, Ind. Harland changing jobs for several years, first as a parking at age 15 in New Albany, Ind.., And then at the age of 16 years as a soldier sent for 6 months in Cuba. After that he became a fireman, studied law by correspondence, practiced in the courts, insurance, ferry operators, tire salesman and service station operator.

At the age of forty, Colonel Sanders started cooking for tourists in the shop which is located in Corbin, KY. However, instead of coming to service their cars, hundreds of people started to come to the station Colonel specifically for food. So he expanded his new-and-coming businesses to move across the street to the hotel and restaurant that seated 142 people. When cooking here, Colonel Sanders perfected secret blend of eleven herbs and spices for a special recipe that is still used today.

With special cooking techniques, Sanders' station became known and he was recognized for outstanding cuisine by the governor at the time, Ruby Laffoon in 1935 when he made a Kentucky Colonel; hence the name Colonel Sanders. In 1939, Colonel Sanders 'top winning restaurants in Duncan Hines' Adventures in Good Eating. "

   

After start-up outstanding in 1952, the Colonel devoted himself for the rest of his life to the chicken franchise. To deploy a famous recipe, he runs the country in his car, from small businesses in Kentucky to cook the chicken for restaurant owners and employees. If you love people as other customers, the Colonel made a deal with the establishment, saying that they would pay a nickel for every chicken they sold in their restaurants. So many restaurants agree that by 1964, the Colonel had more than six hundred franchised outlets in the United States and Canada for the chicken. Also in 1964, Colonel Sanders decided to sell its interest in the U.S. company for small change (only U.S. $ 2 million) for a small faction of investors, such as John Y. Brown Jr., Governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984. However, Colonel Sanders continues to be a public spokesperson for KFC ® and in 1976, he was named the world's second most celebrities are identified by an independent survey.

With this new group of investors execute Corporation, KFC ® expanded and matured rapidly. Corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 16, 1969, just three years after it went public on March 17, 1966. Then, after the company KFC ® was acquired by Heublein Inc. on July 8, 1971 for $ 285 million, the company evolved into a franchise and has 3,500 restaurants worldwide.

Furthermore, Heublein Inc.. the next one was acquired by RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc. (now RJR Nabisco, Inc.) in 1982, making Kentucky Fried Chicken ® a subsidiary of Reynolds. After that, in October 1986, PepsiCo, Inc. makes a purchase of $ 840 million from RJR Nabisco, Inc.

However, in January 1997, PepsiCo, Inc. revealed that it will make a small KFC ® and other quick-service restaurants - Taco Bell and Pizza Hut - into an independent restaurant company known as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. The company also stated that it would change the name corporation Yum! Brands, Inc. in May of 2002. The company, which currently owns A & W All-American Food Restaurants, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in the world, is a restaurant company in terms of system units, has a stifling 32,500 units in more than one hundred countries and regions .

Unfortunately, having traveled 250 thousand miles each year visiting restaurants around the world, Colonel Sanders died of leukemia on December 16, 1980 at the age of ninety years. Interestingly enough, a very large global companies, all started with just a old man of sixty-five and a chicken.

  

The Secret Recipe

For years, Colonel Harland Sanders brought the secret formula for Kentucky Fried Chicken in his head and the spice mixture in his car. Today, the recipe is locked away in a safe in Louisville, Kentucky. Only a handful of people who know, and each is obligated to strict confidentiality by contract. Colonel developed the formula back in the 1930's when he was operating the Sanders Court & Cafe restaurant and motel in Corbin, Kentucky. There, the combination of 11 herbs and spices first developed a loyal customer.

"At that time, I mix by hand spices like mixing cement on a concrete floor that was cleaned in back porch in Corbin," recalls Colonel. "I use a spoon to make a tunnel in the flour and then carefully blended in herbs and spices."