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Harman claimed that in his first year of selling "Kentucky Fried Chicken", his restaurant sales more than tripled, with 75 percent of the increase coming from the sale of fried chicken. [23] In Utah, a product from Kentucky was exotic and evoked imagery of Southern hospitality. [21]
In 1952, Sanders franchised his secret recipe "Kentucky Fried Chicken" for the first time, to Pete Harman of South Salt Lake, Utah, the operator of one of that city's largest restaurants. [26] In the first year of selling the product, restaurant sales more than tripled, with 75% of the increase coming from sales of fried chicken. [27]
KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders (1890–1980), an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the potential of the restaurant-franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Salt Lake County, Utah, in
John Y. Brown took six months to call Colonel Sanders back. From then on it was a life that changed the fast-food restaurant industry, impacting places like Chi-Chi’s, Rally’s and Kenny Rogers ...
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Harman was born in 1919 in Granger, now a part of West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah to David Reese Harman (1874–1924) and Grace May Hemenway (1879–1919). Harman was the youngest of 14 children in a Latter-day Saint family. Harman's mother died two days after he was born, and his father later married Caroline Hemenway Harman ...
A former Red Barn location in Mississauga, Ontario, now a Mr. Sub restaurant. This is a list of defunct fast-food chains.A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchising agreements.
Meal: Fried chicken, corn pudding, spoon bread, bourbon, shaker lemon pie, Mint julep Kentucky’s finest bourbon or a refreshing mint julep offers a taste of the state’s legendary distilling ...