He spent considerable years doing casual work and serving in the United States Army, where he received the title ‘Colonel.’
In the 1930s, at age forty, Colonel Sanders opened on of Kentucky’s first motels, decided to open café and sell fried chicken 2hiich already a favorite food of Kentuckian made with his ‘secret recipe’.
Over the next ten years he tried different seasonings to flavor his chicken. He began experimenting with cooking his chicken faster for a better taste with a new device called the pressure cooker. He added his signature 11 herbs and spices a few years later.
He sold the business in 1955 when the town was bypassed by a highway. The company went public in 1969 with Sanders being the first shareholder.
He quickly came out of retirement to be paid an annual salary as a corporate spokesperson and as a pitchman in television commercials. He travelled the United States by car, cooking chicken for restaurant owners and their employees.
By the age of sixty five the Colonel had 600 Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchise outlets dotted across the United States and Canada.
This as 1964, the year is which he sold the American business for $2 million , leading to another rags to riches story. Colonel Sanders died in 1980, but the words ‘finger licking good’ live on.
Colonel Sanders of KFC Secret Recipe
