Sunday, February 13, 2011

Harland David Sanders

Recipe Colonel Sanders secret made him the second most well-known figure in the world in 1976 was his birthday on the ninth of the month of September 1890 in the town of Hnrivel of the State of Indiana, USA, and died and his father - a miner of coal - life and six years old, yet forced his mother, then to get out of work to count the family, was on Sanders to care about his brother's three-year baby and his sister, and also had to cook food, family, guided by the advice and recipes of his mother. In the age of seven was Sanders has mastered the cooking several types of delicious dishes, including chicken fried in oil.

Did not stop at this point, it was forced Sanders as well as to work in his youth in a variety of functions, the first on a farm for two dollars per month, then two years later married his mother and left is to work on a farm outside the town, and after it completed its sixteenth served for six months in the army American in Cuba, and then move between several jobs from a server coal on board the train steam, to the commander of a river, for the seller of insurance policies, and then studied law by correspondence, practiced law for some time, and sold the tires, took over the management of petrol stations. It Harland David Sanders, the famous old man, with gray hair white as a symbol of his image for months, fried chicken shops.
It was a journey of this man in life is difficult no doubt
In its forty-Sanders was cooking chicken pieces, then sell it to Marin on the station which was run in the city of Corbin, Kentucky, United States, a customer was sitting in his bedroom to eat.
Slowly, his fame began to expand, and people began to come just to eat his food, what enabled him to go to work great chefs in the hotel is located on the other side of the petrol station, adjoining restaurant has expanded to nearly 142 people. Over the nine years after Sanders was able to master the art of cooking fried chicken, and was able to prepare and also described the secret depends on the type of mixing 11 spices of giving chicken taste that you find in restaurants in Kentucky today.
Things were going well, so that the governor of Kentucky is blessed by having Sanders (at the age of 45 years old) the title of Colonel in recognition of his proficiency for cooking, not for one flaw - forcing customers to wait about 30 minutes until they get a meal and they asked for. The competitors (restaurants South) overcome this drawback cook the chicken in margarine, the center has helped the maturation of chicken quickly, that the taste was very different. Needed to learn from Sanders and tested and mastered the art of dealing with cooking pots, using air pressure, in order to keep chickens on your taste, and to the ends of the cooked food quickly, as he had introduced amendments to the modus operandi of your cooking utensils air in the kitchen! What Sanders found that to resolve the dilemma of waiting and began to serve customers quickly, until it was converted road no longer goes to the town in which the restaurant Sanders, so he left his customers. Bar after all, Sanders was forced to sell all his possessions at auction, after payment of all invoices, as well as Sanders was forced to retire to live and Itqot of government insurance funds, or the equivalent of $ 105 per month.
He was 65 years of age at the time! After it had reached the first check from the funds of social insurance (which is equivalent to pensions in our country) to the old man, sat down to think and then decided that it was not yet ready to sit in a rocking chair waiting for a pension the government and, therefore, persuaded some investors to invest their money in the fried chicken delicious, and so were growing up official of the activity of Kentucky Fried Chicken or Kentucky Fried Chicken, in 1952.
Decided Sanders to cook the chicken, then he moves on his car across the U.S. from the restaurant to another, offering chicken on the landlords of restaurants and their employees, and if the reaction of these is positive, it is the agreement between them to get Sanders to a fee for each chicken sold by the restaurant from chickens Colonel.
After 12 years, there were more than 600 restaurant in the United States and Canada are selling Chicken Colonel Sanders.
This year (1964), and after hitting Sanders, age 77, decided to sell everything for $ 2 million to a group of investors (including the man of action after the governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984), with survival spokesman for the company (as opposed to wage) and appeared jovial white typically for a period of a decade in the advertising company.
Bent old man during this time to finish his book Life As I Have Known It Has Been Finger Lickin 'Good (or: the life that defined the appetite degree lead you to lick the fingers - a metaphor for the mission statement, which is renowned advertising company), published in 1974 .
Under the leadership of new investors, the company has grown quickly, and turned in 1966 into a shareholding company listed on the stock market, and in 1971 was sold again at $ 285 million, until it was bought by Pepsi in 1986, $ 840 million.
In 1991 the official name has been transferred to the company of Kentucky Fried Chicken to the first characters to FC, away from the Palace of activity on fried chicken, for the opportunity to sell more kinds of food. Today he works more than 33 thousand employees in all branches of Kentucky, located in over 100 countries.
Before spending the leukemia (blood cancer) on the Colonel, age 90 years, the old man had cut more than 250 thousand miles to visit all the branches of restaurant chain Kentucky. To this day, remains a recipe Colonel Sanders a month by the conservative trade secrets.

 

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