KFC - how fast food began

The man behind KFC

Harland sanders was born in the USA in 1890 but his childhood wasn't a happy one . his father died when he was only six so his mother needed to find a job

. she went to work in a shirt factory and harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother and sister . that was when he first learned to cook .

he left home when he was twelve and worked on a nearby farm .After that he had a lot of different jobs and in 1930 he became a service started cooking meals for hungry travelers who stopped at the service all his customers. Over the next nine years  he developed the secret chicken recipe that made him famous

in the early 1950s he closed the restaurant and decided to sell his recipe to other businesses the first official Kentucky fried chicken restaurant didn't open until august 1952 - by 1964 there were more than 600 KFCs in north  America. that year sanders sold the company for 2$ million , but he continued to work as KFCs public spokesman and visited restaurants all over the world . he travelled 250,000 mils every year until he died in 1980 aged 90. six years later Pepsi Co bough KFC for $ 840 million .

there are now KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries and they sell 2.5 billion  chicken dinners every year - and the recipe is still a secret !