HISTORY OF KFC

Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC for short, has grown from a backroom in a fuel station
in the middle of nowhere, to become the de facto chicken fast food restaurant chain in
the world. Today it enjoys a massive global presence and its food is enjoyed by millions
of people every day.

Kentucky Fried Chicken, known today as KFC, was incorporated in 1955 by Col.
Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky. But its story began a little before then.

Sanders was born in 1890 and at the age of 12, he left home to work as a farmhand
after a troubled childhood. At the age of 15, he left the farm to work a series of jobs with
mixed success.
This is a little tricky to answer because, as we have seen, exactly when KFC began can
be debatable. But using the incorporation date, Colonol Sanders would have been 65
years old.
By this time, Sanders had retired and was living off his social security income and
savings. Using some of this money he incorporated and took his recipe on the road
around the U.S.