where did Colonel Sanders of KFC fame get his start ? [as in city & state]?

Answer 1

Born Harland David Sanders, in Indiana, The Colonel only completed 7th grade. Before starting his famous chain of restraunts he had many jobs including being a fire fighter and even did time with the Army in Cuba. In 1930 he started serving customers from his living quarters in his service station. As his popularity grew he moved from the service station to a hotel restraunt. In 1935 he was given the Honorary title of The Kentucky Colonel by Governor Ruby Laffoon which he shortened to just Colonel. In 1952 he began franchising his restraunt, the first opening in Salt Lake City Utah. The Colonel died of Leukemia in 1980, and was buried in Kentucky.

Answer 2

Colonel Sanders got his start in Corbin, KY.

Here's a link giving a little history of KFC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Fried_Chicken

Here's a link with Colonel Sanders's story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Harland_Sanders

Answer 3

He started out in Tennessee. Then I changed the channel. It was just on the Food Network this past weekend. There was a major highway that passed between Kentucky and whatever city he was in in Tennessee, shortly after he began his business, he then moved over to Kentucky.

Sorry, that's all I can recall. Hope it helps!

Answer 4

Salt Lake City, Utah.

Answer 5

Salt Lake City, Utah of all places. Not very southern I guess.

Answer 6

In Corbin, Kentucky.

Answer 7

I think the first restaurant location was in Kentucky; but, I can't remember the town.

Answer 8

History of KFC and how is got is start

9/9/1890
Harland Sanders is born just outside Henryville, Indiana.

1900-1924
Harland Sanders holds a variety of jobs including: farm hand, streetcar conductor, army private in Cuba, blacksmith's helper, railyard fireman, insurance salesman, tire salesman and service station operator for Standard Oil.

1930
In the midst of the depression, Harland Sanders opens his first restaurant in the small front room of a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders serves as station operator, chief cook and cashier and names the dining area "Sanders Court & Café."

1936
Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon makes Harland Sanders an honorary Kentucky Colonel in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine.

1937
The Sanders Court & Café adds a motel and expands the restaurant to 142 seats.

1939
The Sanders Court & Café is first listed in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating."

Fire destroys The Sanders Court & Café, but it is rebuilt and reopened.

The pressure cooker is introduced. Soon thereafter Colonel Sanders begins using it to fry his chicken to give customers fresh chicken, faster.

1940
Birthdate of the Original Recipe

1949
Sanders marries Claudia Price.

1952
The Colonel begins actively franchising his chicken business by traveling from town to town and cooking batches of chicken for restaurant owners and employees.

The Colonel awards Pete Harman of Salt Lake City with the first KFC franchise. A handshake agreement stipulates a payment of a nickel to Sanders for each chicken sold.

1955
An interstate highway is built to bypass Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders sells the service station on the same day that he receives his first social security check for $105. After paying debts owed, he is virtually broke. He decides to go on the road to sell his Secret Recipe to restaurants.

1957
Kentucky Fried Chicken first sold in buckets

1960
The Colonel's hard work on the road begins to pay off and there are 190 KFC franchisees and 400 franchise units in the U.S. and Canada.

1964
Kentucky Fried Chicken has more than 600 franchised outlets in the United States, Canada and the first overseas outlet, in England.

Sanders sells his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors headed by John Y. Brown Jr., future governor of Kentucky. The Colonel remains a public spokesman for the company.

1965
Colonel Sanders receives the Horatio Alger Award from the American Schools and Colleges Association.

1966
The Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation goes public.

1969
The Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

1971
More than 3,500 franchised and company-owned restaurants are in worldwide operation when Heublein Inc. acquires KFC Corporation.

1976
An independent survey ranks the Colonel as the world's second most recognizable celebrity.

1977
Colonel Sanders speaks before a U.S. Congressional Committee on Aging.

1979
KFC cooks up 2.7 billion pieces of chicken. There are approximately 6,000 KFC restaurants worldwide with sales of more than $2 billion.

12/16/1980
Colonel Harland Sanders, who came to symbolize quality in the food industry, dies after being stricken with leukemia. Flags on all Kentucky state buildings fly at half-staff for four days.

1982
Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. (now RJR Nabisco, Inc.) when Heublein, Inc. is acquired by Reynolds.

1986
PepsiCo, Inc. acquires KFC from RJR Nabisco, Inc.

1997
PepsiCo, Inc. announces the spin-off of its quick service restaurants - KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut - into Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.

2002
Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., the world's largest restaurant company, changes its corporate name to YUM! Brands, Inc. In addition to KFC, the company owns A&W® All-American Food® Restaurants, Long John Silvers®, Pizza Hut® and Taco Bell® restaurants.

2006
More than a billion of the Colonel's "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners are served annually in more than 80 countries and territories around the world.

2007
KFC proudly introduces a new recipe that keeps the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices and finger-lickin' flavor, but contains Zero Grams of Trans Fat per serving thanks to new cooking oil.

Answer 9

Kentucky was his first restaurant.

Answer 10

i dont no im only 11