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Harland Sanders History

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Harland Sanders is an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Harland’s restaurant, KFC is now renowned around the world. KFC was started in a roadside business 88 years ago. It all began on 1930, March 20th. The restaurant Harland had created had the original name of a Sanders Court & Cafe. During the Great Depression, Sanders had a blip of an idea to feed the poor. He had started making chicken in his kitchen and selling to the people of Corbin, Kentucky.

Harland opened a KFC franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952. After the opening of a franchise in Utah sales started to bloom like July 4th and it's fireworks. Sanders couldn’t handle all of this so,

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