BIOGRAPHY OF COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS

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.