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Colonel [a] Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company.
Apr 2, 2014 · Colonel Harland Sanders. Colonel Sanders is best known for creating a fried chicken recipe that would launch the world's largest fast-food chicken chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Updated:...
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- Sanders opened his first restaurant inside a gas station. Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain, in 1974. When Harland Sanders first began to serve meals to truck drivers at an old family dining room table wheeled into the front of his Corbin, Kentucky, service station in 1930, fried chicken was not on the menu because it took too long to prepare.
- He wounded a business rival in a deadly shootout. The hotheaded Sanders never backed down from a fight, which served him well in the rough-and-tumble “Hell’s Half-Acre” neighborhood that surrounded his Shell Oil gas station.
- Sanders served in the military but was an honorary colonel. Harland Sanders holding a bowl of his fried chicken batter, 1974. Sanders, who falsified his birth date in order to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1906, served in Cuba for several months before his honorable discharge.
- The colonel delivered babies and practiced law before hitting it big in fast food. Sanders had an extremely varied résumé before finding success in the fried-chicken business in his 60s.
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Apr 4, 2024 · Harland Sanders, also called Colonel Sanders, American business executive, a dapper self-styled Southern gentleman whose white hair, white goatee, white double-breasted suits, and black string ties became a trademark in countries worldwide for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Mar 10, 2023 · Facebook. Colonel Sanders soon scored a job working on a farm in Greenwood, Indiana, earning $10-15 a month, plus room and board, feeding animals and performing odd jobs. Around this time, Sanders (who'd been balancing his farm work with a full-time education) dropped out of school, only completing the sixth grade.
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Jul 6, 2015 · In 1964, when the 75-year-old Sanders sold his company for $2 million dollars, more than 600 franchises were distributing his fried chicken—made from the Colonel’s secret blend of “eleven ...
Iconic. The Colonel dons his iconic white suit for the first time and from then on, wears one every time he's out in public. 1952. First franchise. The first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opens near Salt Lake City, Utah. 1956. On the road. Colonel Sanders sells his Corbin, Kentucky restaurant and goes on the road to sign up new KFC fanchisees.
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