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Born in Henryville, Indiana, U.S.
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Colonel Sanders father passes away
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Sanders worked many jobs including fireman, tire salesman, insurance salesman, and of course, a cook.
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Sanders cooked chicken dishes and other meals for people who stopped at his service station in Corbin, Kentucky.
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By 1937, Sanders had built Sanders' Cafe, which seated 142 customers. At this restaurant, fried chicken was the easily most popular dish on the menu.
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Fire destroyed the café, which was rebuilt as both a restaurant and motel. For many years, the restaurant and motel served as a popular stop for travellers driving along what was then the major north-south route.
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He created his secret chicken recipe between and figured out how to pressure fry the chicken in a faster and more consistent way. He was at the age of 50 when that happened
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Due to the war fuel was rationed and tourism dried up.
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Sanders set out with a $105 social security check in hand to pitch his chicken recipe to restaurants. 1,009 folks told him he was crazy, but he didn’t give up
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The first restaurant the chicken landed in was based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, which became the first Kentucky Fried Chicken. The restaurant tripled its sales within a year where 75% of that revenue was from the colonel’s chicken.
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Around 1950, Sanders began developing his distinctive appearance, growing his trademark mustache and goatee with a white suit and black bowtie.
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In 1964, at the age of 74 years old, Sanders sold the company for $2 million dollars to a group of investors. He retained the rights to the franchises and stayed on as a salaried goodwill ambassador to the company.
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He passed away in a Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky of pneumonia on December 16, 1980 at the age of 90.
