His face is
plastered in all Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlets and products. An old man
in his eyes with a beard on his chin. Harland Sanders or often called Colonel Sanders became the figure behind the
success of fried chicken sold throughout the world. Now there are around 21,000
KFC restaurants in more than 130 countries. That was the result of the heavy
struggle of Colonel Harland Sanders as the Founder of KFC (Kentucky Fried
Chicken). The struggle of Sanders to achieve success was begun by undergoing
various jobs.
It's never too
late to start a business even though it's very old. That is what was proven by
Colonel Harland Sanders. The inspiring story of getting up and running in the
effort of the founder of KFC is very worthy of listening.
Next we present
the Biodata, profile and Biography of Colonel Harland Sanders and also his
struggle to build KFC as one of the largest fast food franchises in the world.
| COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS |
Name : Harland David Sanders
Born : Indiana,
USA, September 9, 1890
Death : Kentucky,
America, December 16, 1980
Parents : Wilbur
David Sanders (father), Margaret Ann Sanders (mother)
Wife : Josephine
King, Claudia Price
Child : Mildred
Sanders Ruggles, Harland Sanders,
Jr., Margaret Sanders
Known : KFC
Founder (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
Childhood
At the age of 6
years, Sanders lost his deceased father and his mother was forced to assume
responsibility earlier. Existing conditions require that Harland Sanders take
care of his two younger siblings and learn to cook early.
Not yet seven
years old, Harland Sanders has become a reliable chef. He worked in the rice
fields when he was only ten years old with a two-dollar salary every month.
From Porter to Parking Lot
While working as
a porter with only a salary of no more than sixteen cents, he also worked as a
parking attendant. In 1906, he later entered the army and was sent to Cuba.
After that he later retired from the army.
Living on a
pension is not enough, he later joined the train fire team. In those days too,
Harland Sanders studied law through a correspondent. Harland Sanders continued
to explore his abilities until finally he obtained a diploma in law.
Although he
often handled cases in several courts in Little Arkansas, he felt his income
was far from standard. Therefore, for Harland Sanders the diploma he had
obtained was of no use.
Harland Sanders
left the lawyer's profession and opened a car service stand in 1929 in Corbin,
Kentucky.
Open the restaurant
One day, a hawker
seller said that there was no good restaurant in this city, so anyone could eat
in it comfortably. Harland Sanders agreed to that opinion.In his mind the
desire to establish a restaurant flared up. None of the people knew that the
comments of the hawkers would be a point in Harland Sanders' life which would
later change his destiny. The restaurant gave birth to a breakthrough in
serving the fastest food menu.
Harland Sanders
started from a small room, a warehouse behind his car service stand. Harland
Sanders has turned it into a small restaurant that sells fried chicken and
fresh vegetables Harland Sanders
restaurant is so famous. To open a restaurant, Harland Sanders did not find it
difficult just by closing the gas station and turning it into a restaurant that
he named "Café Sanders".
In 1930, the
Harland Sanders business grew. His restaurant is now filled with one hundred
and forty-two people. Considering his love for development and education in any
case, Harland Sanders finally took part in a training on restaurant and hotel
management for eight weeks at Cornell University.
Bankrupt
After a few
years, the layout of the city of Kentucky has changed, so that the restaurant
is no longer strategic and attract visitors.This is the
reason why he was forced to sell it through an open auction for seventy-five
thousand dollars. This amount is not enough to pay the debts. Harland Sanders
tried to sell KFC-style fried chicken recipes to restaurants in the Outta
region, USA. He tried to offer the recipe. Harland Sanders took to the markets
to promote the idea of selling KFC chicken, even though it was old and had
rheumatic disease. During the two
years around offering his recipes there were more than 1000 rejections he
received. Without knowing surrender and sure to succeed, he kept trying. Finally, the recipe
for fried chicken was much loved by American people at the time. His struggles
that did not know tirelessly paid off with the practice of his fried chicken
recipe. Until when the age
of colonel Harland Sanders turned seventy, the number of restaurants that were
part of the KFC franchise reached two hundred places, in the USA and Canada. After reaching this
number, Harland Sanders stopped going around because many people came to his
residence to consult. Finally, he fully helped his wife to prepare food recipes
consisting of several types of spices and spices.
Success at the age of 70 years
In 1963, there were
six hundred restaurants under the KFC franchise. The amount is too much and it
is impossible for him to carry it himself.Therefore, Harland
Sanders decided to sell its KFC franchise business to Jhon Brown Junior and a
million-dollar Jack Mass billionaire. In addition,
Sanders also gets forty thousand dollars in salary every month for life (then
increases to seventy-five thousand dollars) in exchange for his role as a
consultant, advertisements he has published, and his position as president of
the company.
Harland Sanders died
Colonel Harland
Sanders died in 1980 and was buried in Louisville. In 1982, the KFC franchise
business became part of a Reynolds subsidiary and in 1986, KFC was bought by
the Pepsi Cola company for eight hundred forty million dollars.
In 1995, the number
of restaurants reached nine thousand. His staff reached seven hundred and fifty
thousand people in ninety-two countries worldwide in 2005.
