Colonel Sanders' success began when he was 40 years old and ran a Corbin gas station in Kentucky. In order to increase his income, he began to make various snacks for passing tourists. His business grew slowly and steadily because his reputation for cooking food attracted passing tourists. While his fame was growing, Ruby Laffon, then governor of Kentucky, awarded him the title of Colonel of KFC at 1935 in recognition of his contribution to KFC catering.
The colonel's most famous specialty is fried chicken, which was carefully developed and invented by him. This is KFC's most popular product at present. It was cooked by the colonel after ten years' research with the magical formula of eleven spices, which made people stunned after tasting it.
The delicious fried chicken attracted many customers here. However, the traditional fried chicken method makes customers have to wait for 30 minutes to enjoy the food. At 1939, this problem was solved when the colonel visited a pressure cooker display. The colonel bought a pressure cooker and went home. After cooking time, pressure, refueling and other experiments, he finally found a unique method of fried chicken. The fried chicken under this pressure is the best fried chicken he has ever eaten, and KFC fried chicken still maintains this recipe of using pressure cooker.
The colonel's career faced a crisis in the mid-1968+ 1950' s, and the road next to his Saunders Cafe restaurant was passed by a newly-built highway, which forced him to sell the restaurant. At that time, the colonel was 66 years old, but he was still young and didn't need to live on social welfare, which became a turning point in his career.
When the colonel was 66 years old, the retired man who received 105 dollars of social insurance every month began to take his old Ford car produced in 1946 on the road, with his eleven kinds of spice formulas and his right-hand man pressure cooker. He went to restaurants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky to sell recipes and methods of fried chicken to interested restaurants. 1952 The first authorized KFC restaurant in Salt Lake City was established. Surprisingly, in just five years, Colonel has developed 400 chain stores in the United States and Canada, which is the beginning of catering joining in the world. At the same time, the colonel has also received the attention of TV stations. Because he was busy cooking all day, he had to find the only clean-white palm suit, which has since become his unique registered trademark. Since then, people have associated this suit with KFC; And his white suit, white hair and goatee have become a national symbol.
The key years in the life of Harlan Sanders, the founder of KFC.
Harlan Sanders of 1980s/Harlan Sanders of kloc-0/897s is only seven years old and already knows more than ten kinds of rural cooking recipes.
1930s In the small kitchen of his roadside restaurant, Harlan Sanders successfully developed the mysterious recipe of KFC.
1939s restaurant's business is booming, and Harlan Sanders' craftsmanship and reputation have attracted a large number of customers. In recognition of his contribution to the cooking industry, Harlan Sanders was named Colonel KFC.
1950s colonel Harlan Sanders began to operate in the United States. With strict quality requirements, the colonel personally guides authorized franchisees.
1960s Throughout the United States, people enjoy the delicious taste brought by KFC's fingers sucking the original chicken. Companies are gradually integrating into people's lives.
1980s Colonel died, and his hometown state government awarded him lifelong honor.