STARTED HIS BUSINESS AT THE AGE OF 65, GOT 1,009 REJECTIONS, DIDN'T ACCEPT THE RECIPE BUT MADE BILLIONS OF BUSINESS

 

Colonel Sanders American businessman

In 1952, at age 65, when most people were looking to slow down and retire, Harland David Sanders started Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC is arguably one of the most widely recognized brands around the world, and Kern is one of the pioneers of modern franchising. At 40, Harland Sanders was running a popular Kentucky service station that also served food – So popular, that the governor of Kentucky named him the Kentucky Colonel. Eventually, Sanders focused on franchising his fried chicken business nationwide, collecting payment for each chicken sold. The company went on to become the world's largest fast-food chicken chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Harland David Sanders was an American businessman best known for the fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC) and later the company's Was known as the brand ambassador for Prateek. His name and image are still the symbols of the company. Sanders held many jobs in his early life, such as a steam engine stocker, insurance salesman, and filling station operator. He began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in North Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. During that time, Sanders developed his "secret recipe" and his patented method of cooking chicken in a pressure fryer. Sanders recognized the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and in 1952 the first KFC franchise was opened in South Salt Lake, Utah. When his original restaurant closed, he devoted himself to franchising his fried chicken nationwide.

The early Life and career 

 

Harland David Sanders was born on September 9, 1890, in a four-room house located 3 miles (5 km) east of Henryville, Indiana. He was the eldest of three children born to Wilbur David and Margaret Ann (née Dunleavy) Sanders. His mother was of Irish and Dutch descent. His father was a gentle and affectionate man who worked on his 80-acre farm until he broke his leg after falling. Then he worked as a butcher in Henryville for two years. Sanders' mother was a devout Christian and strict mother. Sanders' father died in 1895. His mother got a job as a tomato canner, and young Harland was left to care for and cook his siblings. By the age of seven, he was reportedly skilled in bread and vegetables, and was improvising with meat; The children forage for food while their mother was out for work for several days at a time. In 1899, her mother remarried Edward Park, and according to the 1900 census, her mother became a widow. When he was 10 years old, Sanders began working as a farmhand.In 1902, Sanders' mother remarried to William Broaddus, and the family moved to Greenwood, Indiana. Sanders had a turbulent relationship with his stepfather. In 1903, he dropped out of seventh grade (later saying that "algebra gave me away"), and went to live and work on a nearby farm. At the age of 13, he left home and took up painting horse carts in Indianapolis. When he was 14, he moved to southern Indiana to work as a farmhand. Lying about his age, he joined the US Army in 1906 and was stationed in Cuba. Harland's childhood was similar to that of Dave Thomas, the founder of one of his early franchises, Wendy's. Harland grew up poor and needed to become self-sufficient at a young age. He served in many positions. These included painting horse carts, being a streetcar conductor, selling insurance, and working as a railroad fireman. Harland also worked as a blacksmith's assistant, cleaned rakes on trains, operated a ferry boat on the Ohio River, sold automobile tires, and even became a babysitter. . He managed a gasoline service station and was secretary in the Columbus, Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Colonel Sanders eventually earned his law degree by taking correspondence courses from LaSalle Extension University and began a short three-year law practice at the Peace-Court in Little Rock, Arkansas. His legal career came to an end after he assaulted one of his clients.

The Kentucky Fried Franchise Begins

 

In 1952, Sanders first franchised his secret recipe, "Kentucky Fried Chicken," to Pete Hermann of South Salt Lake, Utah, the operator of one of the largest restaurants in that city. In the first year of product sales, restaurant sales more than tripled, with Sanders believing that his North Corbyn restaurant would be an indefinite success, but with fewer new Interstate 75 customers at age 65. After sold it. Left with only $105 a month from his savings and Social Security, and traveled to the US in search of suitable restaurants. Sanders and Claudia opened a new restaurant and company headquarters in Shelbyville in 1959. Often sleeping in the back of his car, Sanders would visit the restaurant, offering to cook their chicken, KFC's first to expand internationally. was one of the fast food chains, opening outlets in Canada and later in the UK, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Sanders received a patent in 1962 to protect his method of pressure-frying chicken, and trademarked the phrase "It's finger lickin' good" in 1963. The company's rapid expansion to more than 600 locations turned out to be overwhelming for the aging Sanders. In 1964, then at the age of 73, he sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation for $2 million (today $16.7 million), with Sanders becoming a salaried brand ambassador. In 1965, Sanders went on to oversee his Canadian franchise. Moved to Mississauga, Ontario and continued to collect franchise and appearance fees in both Canada and the US. Sanders bought and lived in a bungalow at 1337 Melton Drive in the Lakeview area of ​​Mississauga from 1965 until his death in 1980. He and his wife were baptized in the Jordan River in September 1970.

Success at the Do Drop Inn

Pete Harman was a friend of Sanders and operated one of the largest restaurants in Salt Lake City. Persuading Harman to begin selling his recipe chicken in his "Do Drop Inn" restaurant was a success, increasing sales by 75%. It was Don Anderson, a painter hired by Harman, who came up with the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and it was Harman that created the original bucket that still exists today. Soon several more restaurant owners signed franchise agreements with Sanders for the princely franchise fee of four cents per chicken.It was during this early franchise period that the Colonel met Dave Thomas. Dave at the time was working as a cook for the Clauss family operators of the Hobby House restaurants. It was Dave who developed the classic wobbly red-and-white-striped chicken bucket that became the classic sign outside of each Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. Thomas also streamlined the method of food-to-customer delivery by creating the “snake” line—still used today in many restaurants.Against the Colonel’s advice, Dave took over eight failing restaurants and was so successful in turning them around that he was able to sell the restaurants and begin his own chain of hamburger restaurants, named after his daughter Melinda Lou “Wendy” Thomas. 

 

Original Recipe's Ultimate Chicken

Still as its brand ambassador, he and his wife, Claudia, opened "The Colonel's Ladies Dinner House" restaurant in 1968 in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Heblin tried to stop the couple from opening the restaurant, and in settling the dispute, Sanders received $1 million in exchange for his promise to stop criticizing the food of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sanders was allowed to open his own restaurant - which was renamed "Claudia Sanders Dinner House". This restaurant was the only non-Kentucky fried chicken restaurant to offer an actual version of Sander's original recipe. The restaurant was sold in the 1970s
Kentucky Fried Chicken remains a well-known franchise brand, currently ranked #41 on Entrepreneur's "Franchise 500" list, with 4,074 locations worldwide as of 2018.

Death
 

 

In June 1980, Sanders was diagnosed with acute leukemia. He died of pneumonia on 16 December 1980 at the age of 90 at a Jewish hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. And his wife Claudia died in 1997.