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Hello Im a fried chicken form KFC. *ve hinh sau lung* recognize this person?

He is Harland Sanders - my dear father. Let me tell u the story of his life

He was born on 9.9.1890 in Indiana US. His father died when he was only six so his mother remarried with another man. Unfortunately, his stepfather wasnt so nice. The stepfather made him cook all the time.

He was so depressed that he dropped out of school when he was in seventh grade.

Since then, he never came back home. He traveled to many places and had many jobs, such as steamboat pilot, insurance salesman, farmer ... Although he was oppressed; he always looked on the bright side.

At the age of 40, in the midst of the depression, Harland Sanders opens his first restaurant in the small front room of a gas station in
Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders serves as station operator, chief cook and cashier and names the dining area "Sanders Court & Caf. The

food, especially the fried chicken he made was so good that his restaurant was always crowded with customers. In
1936, Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon makes Harland Sanders an honorary Kentucky Colonel in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine. A year later he decided to expand the restaurant to 142 seats. The day of glory started to come to

Sanders. His restaurant, Sanders Court & Caf, is first listed in the Duncan Hines magazine Adventures In Good Eating. Since the introduction of the pressure cooker, Colonel Sanders began using it to fry his chicken to give customers
tastier chicken served in a faster way. He had developed his secret recipe so it would attract more and more customers.

Unfortunately, in 1942, the fire destroyed the entire restaurant of Colonel Sanders. But this led to the opening of the very first KFC franchise in Salt Lake City in 1952. After making some profit and having paid all his debts, the business started to pick up. In 1960, there are 190 KFC franchisees and 400 franchise units in the U.S. and Canada. And only after
4 years, Kentucky Fried Chicken has more than 600 franchised outlets in the United States, Canada and the first overseas outlet, in England. Sanders started to become famous in public as the original founder of the KFC brand. He was ranked as the worlds second most recognizable celebrity by an independent survey in 1976. He came up with an idea of promoting his brand. During the time he was becoming old, he had grown a moustache and it became his distinctive appearance. His face started to appear as a logo

of KFC, which still remains until now as you guys can see in every single KFC restaurant. Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation in 1964 for $2 million to a partnership of Kentucky businessmen headed by John Y. Brown, Jr.

Later on, he used his stockholdings to create the Colonel Harland Sanders Trust and Colonel Harland Sanders Charitable Organization, which used the proceeds to aid charities and fund scholarships. His trusts continue to donate money to groups like the Trillium Health Care Centre; a wing of their building specializes in women's and

children's care and has been named after him. The Sidney, British Columbia based foundation granted over $1,000,000 in 2007, according to its 2007 tax return Sanders died in Louisville, Kentucky, of leukemia on 16.12.1980. His body lay in the Kentucky State Capitol; after a funeral service at the Southern Baptist Seminary Chapel attended by more than 1,000 people. He was buried in his characteristic white suit and black western string tie in Louisville his hometown.

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