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– At 5 his father died.
– At 16 he quit studying.
– By 17 he already tried 4 jobs.
– At 18 he got married.
– Between 18 and 22 he worked as a driver and gave up.
– He joined the army but didn’t make the grade.
– He tried to enter judicial school and was rejected.
– He failed as an insurance salesman.
– At 25 his wife left him and took his only daughter.
– Washed dishes in a small coffee shop.
– Failed to attempt to get his daughter back.
– At 65 he finally retired.
– On the first day of his retirement the government gave him $105. He sat under a tree to write his testament but realised there was something he had not done, and that was cooking. With the money the government gave him, he bought himself a fryer, made fried chicken using a recipe his grandmother taught him, and sold it door to door in his village.
-As soon as he realised it was his chicken people were into and not his petrol, he scrapped the petrol station and turned it into a 142-seat roadside restaurant and motel called Sanders’ Court & Cafe.
At the age of 88 Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC was a billionaire.
The secret KFC fried chicken recipe was created by Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of the fast food chain, at a motel and restaurant that he ran in Asheville, North Carolina, before he decided to sell it on and return to Kentucky. In a twist of fate, he had moved to North Carolina because his original location had been destroyed by a fire.
He started serving his trademark fried chicken when he owned a petrol station just outside North Corbin, Kentucky, back in 1930. After impressing the locals, he was given the title of honorary colonel from the Kentucky governor in 1936 and a mention in Duncan Hines’ 1939 book Adventures In Good Eating.