Colonel Sanders, and even now a symbol of entrepreneurial spirit. He was born on 9 September 1890 in Henryville, Indiana, but only became active in mewaralabakan chicken business at the age of 65 years. At the age of 6 years old, his father died and his mother was not able to work longer so young Harland had to take care of his younger brother who was only 3 years old. With this condition she had to cook for her family. In this period he was already beginning to show skill.
At the age of 7 years he was a good cook cook in some places. At the age of 10 years he got his first job with a farm near 2 dollars a month salary. When he was 12 years old his mother remarried, so he left the house where he lived to get a job in agriculture in the area of Greenwood, Indiana. After that, he was changing jobs for a few years.
First, as a handyman parking at the age of 15 years in New Albany, Indiana, and later became the soldiers sent to Cuba for 6 months. After that he became a railroad fireman, studied law by correspondence, practiced in the courts, insurance, ferry operators, tire salesman and service station operators. At the age of 40 years, Colonel began cooking for the traveling public who stopped at his service station in Corbin. Colonel Sanders did not have a restaurant at the time. He presents food in the dining room at the workshop. As more people are coming just for food, he moved across the street near the inn and the restaurant can accommodate 142 people.
For nearly 9 years, she uses recipes made with basic cooking techniques to the present. Sander, the better the image. Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 for his contribution to the state of Cuisine. And in 1939, its existence was first listed in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating."
In early 1950 a new interstate highway was planned to bypass the town of Corbin. Seeing an end to business, the Colonel is finally closing the restaurant. After paying his bills, he got his old age social security amounted to $ 105.
Due to a strong sense of confidence will be the quality of fried chicken, the Colonel open a franchise business that started in 1952. He traveled across the state by car from restaurant to restaurant, cooking batches of chicken for restaurant owners and employees. If the reaction was favorable, he offered an agreement to obtain payment from each chicken sold.
In 1964, Colonel Sanders already has more than 600 outlets for his chicken franchises across America and Canada. In that year he sold his interest is paid to American companies as much as 2 million dollars to a group of investors including John Y Brown Jr., (later became governor of Kentucky). In 1976, an independent survey ranked the Colonel Sanders placed second from a series of world famous celebrities.
Under new owners, Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation grew rapidly which then became a public company on March 17, 1966, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 16, 1969. More than 3500 franchised and company-owned restaurants will be operating almost all over the world. Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes a subsidiary of RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc. (Now RJR Nabisco, Inc.), When Heublein Inc.. acquired by Reynolds in 1982. KFC was acquired in October 1986 from RJR Nabisco Inc. by PepsiCo Inc., for approximately $ 840 million dollars.
In January 1997, PepsiCo, Inc. announced the spin-off of quick service restaurants - KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut - into an independent restaurant company, Tricon Global Restorans Inc. In May 2002, the company announced the approval of the shareholders to change corporate name to Yum! Brands Inc.. Company, owned by A & W All-American Food Restorans, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restorans, is the world's largest restaurant company in the category system units with a total approaching 32.500 in over 100 countries and regions.
KFC booming. Now, more than a billion chicken dinners are enjoyed every year Colonel, not only in North America, even available in almost 80 countries around the world. But Colonel Sanders was no longer able to witness it. In 1980, at the age of 90 years, he was attacked by leukemia. He died after traveling 250,000 miles a year visiting KFC restaurants around the world. "Dreams do not have success in the childhood. Dreams can also at old age. "Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC
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