The Inspiring Journey Of Colonel Sanders, Founder Of KFC

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7 Mar 2024

Very few people would know the name of Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).

Colonel" Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American entrepreneur. He started a company named Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC.

Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in Henryville, Indiana. He studied at Southern University.

Colonel Sanders had his own small business from which he earned his livelihood, but due to the construction of a highway there, his business was closed.

Within a few days, their capital was exhausted and they were in need of food.

Now his age was almost 65 years and the situation was such that he had nothing left to lose.
Colonel Harland Sanders loved making chicken and was so confident in his chicken experiment, he set out to market his chicken making experiment with spices and a pressure cooker. He started meeting different restaurants. One by one all the restaurant owners started rejecting him.

But Colonel Sanders also did not give up, he continued to work, kept learning and trying. You will be surprised to hear that he failed in the interview 1009 times and one thousand nine (1009) people rejected him, only then he finally got success. After being rejected one thousand nine times, he got rejected one thousand nine times After that he got his first yes.

Colonel Sanders, whose full name was Harland David Sanders. Was an American businessman, who spread the chain of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) producers all over the world.

When Saunders was only 5 years old, his father died, and since his mother went to work, he had to cook the food at home. When he was in 7th class, he had to leave studies.

When his mother remarried, Saunders ran away from home. Saunders had to struggle a lot in the beginning of his life.

Sometimes he worked in a steam boat, sometimes he worked as a salesman in insurance, and sometimes he worked as a fireman in a railway.

At the age of 16 (falsifying his age), he joined the army and worked in Cuba.

At the age of just 17, he lost four jobs and got married at the age of 18.

The very next year he had a daughter, soon his wife left him with their daughter.
At the age of 40, Saunders used to cook chicken and serve it to those who stopped by his service station. He did not have any restaurant at that time.

Due to the quality of the chicken, its sales soon started increasing and he started working as the chief cook in a 142-seat hotel. There he invented a new way of cooking chicken, Pressure Fryer.

Sanders was running a service station in Kentucky where he used to feed many hungry passengers.

Despite continuous failures, Sanders did not stop trying. At the age of 40, he came to Corbin, Kentucky and opened a service station.

The income received from the service station was not enough.

So, with the aim of increasing his income, he put a table and some chairs in the room behind the service station.

Started preparing and feeding pan-fried chicken, ham, steak and other food items to the drivers and passengers passing there.

He converted this service station into a restaurant where he sold his chicken dishes.

His fried chicken was so remarkable that the governor there named him Kentucky Colonel.

Colonel Sanders was behind the success of KFC. He became famous in the world because of his fried chicken recipe.

Sanders did not let the barrier of age become a hindrance to his success and he achieved success at the age of 65.

His restaurant was doing well. A big reason for his restaurant's success was that it was located on the way to Florida.

Due to which the passengers passing on that route would notice his restaurant and they would turn to him. But in the 1950s, an unexpected problem befell him.

In the beginning of 1950, due to this, the business of Senders had to suffer a lot due to the highway being built there.

The check given by the government was very small. But Sanders was still not ready to sit still.

He had full confidence in his chicken recipe and with this confidence he set out to market it, during which he met the owners of different restaurants where he was rejected.

After more than 1000 attempts, finally in 1952 he convinced a person named Pete Harman to make him his partner. He patented his fried chicken recipe and opened the first restaurant in Salt Lake City in 1952.

Opening of restaurant in Kentucky

People liked the taste of the food prepared by him so much that they started coming there to eat the food prepared by him.

Seeing the increasing numbers, he opened a motel and restaurant on the other side of the road in which about 142 people could sit and eat together.

Among the food prepared by him, people especially liked Pan Fried Chicken.

Therefore, he kept working continuously on his recipe, so that it becomes unique.

Finally, after 9 years of hard work, he completed his Pan Fried Chicken recipe consisting of 11 herbs and spices.

This recipe became the USP of his restaurant. Sanders became famous because of his Pan Fried Chicken. The Governor of Kentucky liked the chicken he cooked so much that he honored Harlan Sanders with the title of 'Colonel' in 1935.

In 1935, he was given the title of Kentucky Colonel by Governor Ruby Laffoon. Now gradually Colonel Saunders's KFC chicken became very famous.

In the year 1964, the Colonel sold his share of KFC Corporation for 2 million dollars. The Colonel sold his franchise in Canada and earned a lot of money.

This story tells that with your high quality and hard work you can achieve great success even in the most difficult circumstances.

He married Josephine King and later divorced her.

He later married Claudia Price. Sanders had 3 children. He died on December 16, 1980 in Kentucky. He was 90 years old.