The Kentucky Fried Chicken® was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders born on September9, 1890 at the age of sixty-five.. KFC® is currently one of the largest businesses of the global food
Trang 1The Kentucky Fried Chicken® was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders (born on September
9, 1890) at the age of sixty-five KFC® is currently one of the largest businesses of the global food service industry and is widely known around the world as the face of Colonel Sanders
Every year, over a billion KFC® chicken dinners are served featuring the Colonel’s “finger lickin’ good” special recipe The Colonel has spread his industry currently to more than eighty countries and territories globally
At the age of forty, Colonel Sanders began cooking for travelers in his service station located
in Corbin, KY However, rather than coming in for service for their cars, hundreds of people began coming to the Colonel’s station specifically for his food So he expanded his new up-and-coming business by moving across the street to a hotel and restaurant that seated one hundred and forty-two people While cooking here, Colonel Sanders perfected his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices for his special recipe that is still used today
With his special cooking techniques, Sanders’ station became famous and he was recognized for his amazing cuisine by the Governor at the time, Ruby Laffoon in 1935 when he was made
a Kentucky Colonel; hence the name Colonel Sanders In 1939, Colonel Sanders’ restaurant won the top spot on Duncan Hines’ “Adventures in Good Eating.”
After his amazing start-up in 1952, the Colonel devoted himself for the rest of his life to his chicken franchising business To spread his famous recipe, he spanned the country in his car from his small business in Kentucky to cook his chicken for restaurant owners and their
employees If his subjects loved it like his other customers had, the Colonel made a deal with the establishment, saying that they would pay him a nickel for each chicken they sold in their restaurant So many restaurants agreed that by 1964, the Colonel had over six hundred franchised outlets in the United States and Canada for his chicken Also in 1964, Colonel Sanders decided to sell his interest in the United States company for small change (only $2 million) to a small faction of investors, such as John Y Brown Jr., the governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984 However, Colonel Sanders continued to be the public spokesman for KFC® and in 1976, he was named the world’s second-most identifiable celebrity by an
independent survey
With this new group of investors undertaking the Corporation, KFC® expanded and matured quickly The Corporation was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 16, 1969, only three years after it had gone public on March 17, 1966 Then, after the KFC
Corporation® was acquired by Heublein Inc on July 8, 1971 for $285 million, the company grew to an enormous three thousand and five hundred franchised and company-owned
restaurants world-wide
Subsequently, Heublein Inc was next acquired by R.J Reynolds Industries, Inc (currently RJR Nabisco, Inc.) in 1982, making Kentucky Fried Chicken® a subsidiary of Reynolds After that,
in October of 1986, PepsiCo, Inc made a purchase of $840 million from RJR Nabisco, Inc
Trang 2However, in January of 1997, PepsiCo, Inc revealed that it would be making KFC® and its other small 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 corporation’s name to Yum! Brands, Inc in May of 2002 This
corporation, which currently owns A&W All-American Food Restaurants, KFC, Long John
Silvers, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, is the world's principal restaurant corporation in terms of system units, having a stifling thirty-two thousand and five hundred units in over one hundred countries and territories
Sadly, after traveling two hundred fifty thousand miles every year visiting his restaurants around the globe, Colonel Sanders died of leukemia at the age of ninety in 1980
Interestingly enough, this enormous, global corporation all started with simply a sixty-five-year-old gentleman and a chicken
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