THE HISTORY OF KFC

NAME: Christina Smyle

TEACHER: Keisha wright
Institute: southwest tvet Newport
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WHAT IS THE HISTORY
OF KFC?
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) was founded
by Colonel Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur
who began selling fried chicken from his
roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky,
during the Great Depression. Sanders
identified the potential of restaurant
franchising, and the first "Kentucky Fried
Chicken" franchise opened in Salt Lake City,
Utah, in 1952. KFC popularized chicken in
the fast-food industry, diversifying the market
by challenging the established dominance of
the hamburger. Branding himself "Colonel
Sanders", the founder became a prominent
figure of American cultural history, and his
image remains widely used in KFC
advertising. The company's rapid expansion
made it too large for Sanders to manage, so in
1964 he sold the company to a group of
investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr. and Jack
C. Massey.
KFC was one of the first fast-food chains to
expand internationally, opening outlets in
Britain, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-
1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, KFC
experienced mixed success domestically, as it
went through a series of changes in corporate
ownership with little or no experience in the
restaurant business. In the early 1970s, KFC
was sold to the spirits distributor Heublein,
which was taken over by the R. J. Reynolds
food and tobacco conglomerate, which later
sold the chain to PepsiCo. The chain
continued to expand overseas, and in 1987
KFC became the first Western restaurant
chain to open in China.
 WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF
KFC?

Harland David Sanders was born on

September 9, 1890, in a four-room house
located 3 miles (5 km) east of Henryville,
Indiana. He was the oldest of three children
born to Wilbur David and Margaret Ann (née
Dunlevy) Sanders. His mother was of Irish
and Dutch descent. The
family attended the
Advent Christian Church.
His father was a mild and
affectionate man who
worked his 80-acre farm,
until he broke his leg in a
fall. He then worked as a
butcher in Henryville for
two years. Sanders' mother was a devout
Christian and strict parent, continuously
warning her children of "the evils of alcohol,
tobacco, gambling, and whistling on Sundays.
Sanders' father died in 1895. His mother got
work in a tomato cannery, and the young
Harland was left to look after and cook for his
siblings.[1] By the age of seven, he was
reportedly skilled with bread and vegetables,
and improving with meat; the children
foraged for food while their mother was
away at work for days at a time. In 1899, his
mother remarried to Edward Park, and
according to the 1900 census, his mother was
widowed. When he was 10, Sanders began to
work as a farmhand.
In 1902, Sanders' mother remarried to
William Broaddus, and the family moved to
Greenwood, Indiana. Sanders had a
tumultuous relationship with his stepfather.
In 1903 (age 12), he dropped out of seventh
grade (later stating that "algebra's what
drove me off"), and went to live and work on
a nearby farm. At age 13, he left home and
took a job painting horse carriages in
Indianapolis. When he was 14, he moved to
southern Indiana to work as a farmhand.
How did Colonel Sanders sell his
chicken in the beginning?

He began selling fried chicken from his

roadside restaurant in North Corbin,
Kentucky, during the Great Depression.
During that time, Sanders developed his
"secret recipe" and his patented method of
cooking chicken in a pressure fryer.