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This man is the true embodiment of the “American Dream”, a dream of a beautiful life, wealth and power that anyone can achieve. The name Colonel Sanders does not speak as loudly as his portrait - almost every person anywhere in the world has seen his face. Because Colonel Garland David Sanders (or "Kentucky Fried Chicken") is the founder of the fast food chain KFC.

Garlad Sanders was born in 1890 in Henryville, Indiana. He was not even 6 years old when he lost his father. The mother had to work day and night to somehow feed herself and her son, and Sanders was entrusted with all the housework. Among other things, it involved cooking, which the boy loved very much. Soon his mother started a new affair, and then got married. The boy's relationship with his stepfather did not work out; it came to beatings and humiliation. Then Sanders decided to leave his home and moved to his uncle in the city of New Alban. Fortunately, the uncle received the boy with all the warmth of his soul.

In seventh grade, Sanders was kicked out of school for poor performance. He was never diligent in his studies, often played truant, preferring to work part-time instead of studying. He washed cars, worked as a loader and even sold homemade pies at the local market. So the guy wasn't too upset when he was expelled. He decided it was time to start his adult life. At that time he was 12 years old...

In 1906, Sanders decided to join the US National Army. At that time, there was unrest in Cuba - the Cuban people were against the American occupation, and the United States began recruiting a volunteer army, which was transferred to Cuba to ensure control over the occupied state. Sanders was only 15 years old at the time, so he had to falsify documents in which he changed his date of birth. He was assigned to the military logistics division and was expected to keep warehouse records. But the young fighter was not entrusted with this profitable position, and until the end of his service Sanders was assigned to the stable. His duties included caring for the horses and cleaning the stalls. He had to shovel horse manure with his hands, either because of a lack of tools or because of the bullying of his colleagues. While in the army, Sanders contracted some kind of tropical infection, lost 20 kg (a third of his weight), was hospitalized, but recovered and served his term.

By the way, Sanders did not receive the rank of colonel in the army - he was never even a junior officer there. Sanders received the title of “Colonel of Kentucky” from the hands of Governor Ruby Lafon for outstanding services in the public life of the state.

After being demobilized, Sanders returned to his homeland. He wandered around the cities and states of the United States like a tumbleweed, never stayed anywhere for long and tried a bunch of professions that came his way. He worked as a blacksmith's assistant, washed trains at a railway station, worked as an intercity tram conductor, a loader in a furniture factory, a mechanic in a car repair shop, a ferry captain, a tire shop director, and even a law student at a local court. This was such an American Ostap Bender, who took on everything he could get his hands on and was not afraid of anything. But luck was not kind to him...

When Sanders was 18 years old, he got married. He had a son, who died in infancy, and two daughters, Margaret and Mildred. But when Sanders was fired from his next job, his wife left him and took the children. Later, the brother-in-law wrote a letter to the future millionaire in which he said that his sister should not have married such a loser who could not hold down a single job.

In Chicago, Sanders enrolled as a correspondence student at La Salle University, the largest educational institution for business representatives. Oddly enough, he studied well. Despite the moves and ups and downs of life, Sanders completed his studies and received a diploma. While studying, he continued to work - first as a firefighter in Tennessee, and when he was fired from his job for fighting, he moved to Arkansas. He worked as a farmer, a peddler, a miner, a locomotive fireman, an insurance agent - whatever he did. At the same time, Sanders noted that none of the professions that he tried brought him pleasure. Sanders only remembered his work as a fireman with warmth. At this job, fate brought him into contact with the main woman of his life, Claudia Price, who became his wife and met old age with him.

And so, when Sanders turned 40 years old and had accumulated a small capital, he decided to open his own business - an auto repair shop. Far from being a young age (even by today’s standards, Sanders was far from a boy) did not bother the newly minted entrepreneur. He chose a very good place for his workshop - the workshop was located on the side of Federal Highway 25, along this road people traveled to Florida from the northern states. The flow of clients was consistently large. To increase income, the entrepreneur decided to open a canteen for clients in one of the rooms of the workshop. There was only one table with 6 seats, and food for visitors was prepared right in the home kitchen. Soon Sanders' auto repair shop became famous throughout the state of Kentucky... for its fried chicken!

The owner of the cafe himself developed a unique recipe for cooking chicken under pressure with eleven spices and seasonings. Pressure cookers were just coming into fashion at that time, and Sanders was one of the first to appreciate this innovation. If it took about half an hour to fry chicken in a frying pan, then in a pressure cooker this time was halved - which means twice as many satisfied customers!

The popularity of his fried chicken grew so much that the dish became known as the "national Kentucky dish," the state's signature dish. In 1935, Sanders received the title of "Colonel of Kentucky", which stirred his hitherto suppressed vanity. And so he opens the Sanders Court and Café motel with a restaurant with 142 seats.

The businessman's business was going well. People loved the way he cooked chicken. Sanders kept the recipe for his signature dish a closely guarded secret. People never stopped trying to unravel the composition of his signature 11-spice sauce and crispy breading that made the chicken taste so extraordinary. At the time the colonel created his recipe, standard poultry seasonings included black pepper, allspice, marjoram, ginger, nutmeg, thyme, cloves, thyme and sage. Perhaps the colonel also used these spices. True, no one still knows the exact composition of the seasoning mixture. Even KFC management claims that the original recipe is known only to a few members of the company's management and is kept in a secret place. Spices are supplied to KFC stores in the form of a ready-made mixture, so even employees do not know its exact composition.

And again the blow! In 1952, the government opens the new Interstate 75, and traffic plummets. At that time, Sanders was already 62 years old. He decides to sell the restaurant, but now its location has become completely unsuccessful, and no one wanted to buy it. I had to auction off the restaurant to pay off creditors. The colonel again lost everything he had for so short a time - his wealth, his business, even his home. The only thing he had was a ridiculous pension of $105...

But Sanders didn't give up. He began traveling around the country trying to sell his fried chicken recipe to restaurant owners, but they only laughed at the “crazy old man.” Sanders visited 1,006 restaurants and received 1,006 rejections until he met Pete Herman, a restaurateur from Salt Lake City. He saw the potential in the Colonel's idea and opened a new restaurant - "Kentucky Fried Chicken", the first establishment of the KFC chain. It was then that the famous KFC logo appeared - the smiling face of a colonel with glasses and a ribbon tie. Over the next 50 years, the logo did not change its essence and underwent only minor changes - for example, the colonel’s face “lost a little weight” over time.

The restaurant was doomed to success. In the first year alone, 75% of the restaurant's profits came from Colonel Sanders' signature fried chicken. After 8 years, the colonel sold KFC for $2 million. The deal applied only to the United States - the colonel could open his own restaurants in other countries. And next year Sanders opens a new KFC in Canada, where he and his family are moving. That same year, the first KFC was opened in the UK.

The portrait of Colonel Sanders is part of the KFC corporate identity - it is printed on the company logo and on every package of chicken prepared according to his recipe. This portrait was taken after the colonel began to have money. Having become rich, Sanders began to sculpt an aristocratic image for himself. He grew a bushy beard and mustache. In public places, he began to appear only in white shirts, with a black ribbon tie, with a cane and in a mandatory white suit: woolen in winter, and linen or cotton in summer. Do you remember how Ostap Bender in The Golden Calf considered it a symbol of wealth to walk along the promenades of Rio de Janeiro in white pants and a white shirt? Apparently Colonel Sanders agreed with Bender. The difference is that the colonel also managed to pull it off.

Having become rich, Sanders joined the Masonic lodge and even rose to the 33rd degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The Colonel's tombstone features a Masonic square and compasses.

Garland Sanders died at the age of 90 from leukemia. A few years later, KFC launched a commercial starring an actor who looked so much like the colonel that his family experienced superstitious horror. Looking at this advertisement, the relatives could not get rid of the thought that the colonel had been resurrected.

Colonel Sanders was an incredible adventurer who did not succumb to any blows of fate and snatched out his happiness with his teeth. Without finishing school, he was able to finish university - because he believed that he needed it. Not being an adult, he enlisted in the army - because he wanted to. Without much management experience or business skills, he opened his own business at the age of 40 and succeeded. And then, having lost everything at the age of 62, he did not give up and continued to fight, and in the end he received even more than he expected when he was successful. His story teaches perseverance and the ability not to give up under any circumstances. After all, success is not somewhere around the corner, it is in your head!

A plastic statue of the Colonel, standing in front of a restaurant on the outskirts of Tokyo, was involved in the events that led to the belief of the "Colonel's curse" among fans of the Japanese baseball team "Hanshin Tigers" (Japanese: 阪神タイガース): during the celebration of the victory in "Nihon Shirizu", final of the national championship, in 1985, the statue was thrown from the bridge into the river. The team's subsequent failures (it has never won a championship since) are explained by the statue's revenge: the Tigers are doomed to failure until it is found.

Mentioned in the third episode of the 14th season of the animated series "South Park", where Cartman enters into an agreement with the Colonel for the clandestine supply of KFC products to the city of South Park after the legislative prohibition of KFC in the state. Also mentioned in the third episode of Season 9, where the Colonel is supposedly Cartman's assistant at the talent agency.

In Episode 21 of Season 3 of Friends, when one of the main characters Ross tries to wear a ridiculous snow-white suit to a TV show, his sister Monica jokingly says that she likes the suit on her brother even more than Colonel Sanders. As a result, Ross becomes offended.

In the second season of the animated series Family Guy, Peter Griffin persistently demands that the KFC seller call him Colonel Sanders, to which he replies that the colonel is dead, Peter cannot believe it...

In the computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 there is an achievement “Colonel Sanderson”, which consists of killing twenty chickens in 10 seconds. The play on words is that the main character's last name is Sanderson.

In the movie “All or Nothing” (“The Longest Yard”), Adam Sandler’s character jokingly calls the prison warden’s business partner “..Colonel Sanders and his chickens...”, for his resemblance to the colonel himself.

Notes

The Simpsons season 21 episode 2. is present among a number of historical figures, such as: St. Peter, Jack the Ripper, Charlemagne, etc., as a person who knew some secret. 14:00 minutes Season 4 "Breaking Bad". Colonel Sanders is often mentioned when discussing the clandestine meth lab investigation. A parallel with the main boss - Gus Freen - owner of the chain of fast food restaurants "Los Pollos Hermanos" ("Chicken Brothers").

Literature

• Currell, Billy. 2006. Kentucky Fried Tender. ASIN B000JWMI9U .
• Pearce, John The Colonel(1982) ISBN 0-385-18122-1
• Kleber, John J. et al. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. - Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1992. - ISBN ISBN 0-8131-1772-0

Sanders, the eldest of three children in the family, was born on September 9, 1890, in a cabin along a rural road three miles from the town of Henryville, Indiana. His father, a farmer, was a kind and gentle man, but after an unfortunate fall, breaking his leg and spine, he was forced to change his job as a butcher in Henryville. Alas, he returned home one summer day with a fever and died that evening. Harland's mother, in order to feed herself and her children, got a job at a factory that produced canned tomatoes, and her eldest son, who was then only five years old, took on the responsibility of cooking. When he was 12, Sanders dropped out of school. In 1902, his mother remarried, but his stepfather turned out to be a completely different person - he beat Harland, and then the boy, with his mother's approval, moved in with his uncle in Albany, Indiana.

Three years later, Sanders gave himself a few years and enlisted in the Army. He served in Cuba, and after his discharge he moved to Sheffield, Alabama, where his uncle had moved. During these years, Sanders changed many occupations, managing to work as an insurance agent, a railroad fireman, a farmer and a steamship pilot. In 1908 he married Josephine King and they had three children, but his wife left him when Sanders once again lost his job.

In 1930, Sanders opened a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky, where he also prepared chicken and other dishes for customers. The popularity of his dinners grew, and Sanders soon moved into a 142-seat motel and restaurant, which later became home to the Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum. Over the next nine years, he developed and perfected his "secret recipe" for deep-fried chicken in a pressure cooker, which was much faster than in a frying pan. In 1939, restaurant critic Duncan Hines visited his establishment and was so impressed with his meal that he mentioned Sanders' modest restaurant in Adventures in Good Eating, his famous guide to American restaurants. This was the beginning of great success.

As his enterprise grew, Sanders began to play an increasingly important role in the life of his city and even joined the Masonic lodge. In 1947, he finally divorced his first wife, Josephine, and two years later married Claudia Price, his secretary, which he had long desired.

Also in 1949, his friend, State Governor Lawrence Wetherby, awarded Sanders the honorary title of Colonel of Kentucky - it has nothing to do with military rank - and since then the founder of KFC has been better known as Colonel Sanders. Then he changed his appearance, growing his signature mustache and goatee and wearing a white suit and ribbon tie, and finally turned into that cheerful white-haired old man who still looks at us from the company logo.

In the early 1950s, Sanders noticed that a new road, Route 75, was reducing the volume of customers at his restaurant, and decided to turn Kentucky Fried Chicken (though it had a different name back then) into a franchise. In 1952, the first such restaurant opened in South Salt Lake, Utah, and was an incredible success, and Don Anderson, a designer, came up with the name that became famous. The restaurant in Utah relied on the legendary southern hospitality, which distinguished it from other establishments in the area, and in the future the entire network was built around this feature - by 1963, the number of restaurants in the network exceeded six hundred!

In 1964, Sanders sold the American part of the corporation for $2 million, and he moved to Canada, where he continued to oversee the Canadian part of the business.

Sanders used his wealth to create a foundation and charitable organization that paid scholarships for education, helped medical institutions, organized assistance to women and children in difficult situations, etc.

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Family and childhood

David Harland Sanders was born in Henryville, Indiana on September 9, 1890. At the age of six, the boy suddenly loses his beloved father. Financial problems force the mother to go to work in order to earn a piece of bread.

A small child becomes the eldest in the family and takes responsibility for raising his younger brother and sister. It is during this period of life that a guy discovers the endless world of cooking. Family and relatives noted the child’s ability to cook, but only decades later would Sanders’ culinary skills bring real profit.

Difficulties of life and first love

Soon mom falls in love and gets married. David has to earn his own money. The guy changes dozens of jobs, masters several professions. Sanders worked as a tire salesman, insurance agent, farmer, locomotive fireman, auto mechanic, ferry captain, and conductor. However, not a single specialty was to my liking. The only field of activity that the young man remembers is that of a fireman. During this period of his life, David meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Claudia, who will support him throughout his married life.

On the way to success

Most of his life passes, Sanders is forty years old, he is disappointed in life. A constant lack of money and lack of prospects force a man to change his worldview. Harland decides to open his own business - a car service on the highway connecting the north and south of the country. The auto repair shop was in great demand among car owners. The company began to make good profits.

While working in the workshop, Sanders notices a trend that will make him millions in the future. Most auto tourists travel hungry. David decides to open a mini canteen next to the workshop, where he fries chicken himself, flavoring the dishes with unique seasonings of his own making.

Why "Colonel"?

Fried chicken was extremely popular. The Sanders family budget has been replenished with another source of income. David's chicken was so beloved by Americans that it was called the "National Dish of the State." As a reward, Sanders receives the title of “Kentucky Colonel” from the governor.

Hope and Perseverance

Soon the white streak of life ends. The authorities built a new highway, which was preferred by most of David's clients. The entrepreneur finally despairs, because he is already 62 years old. He is again trying to gather his thoughts in order to determine a strategy for getting out of the current crisis.

The solution comes naturally - fried chicken comes to the rescue again. A businessman packs his bags to travel around America. He visits restaurants and catering establishments, where he offers his own unique fried chicken recipe for sale. The elderly cook is constantly turned down.

History of success

After several months of fruitless wandering, Sanders finds his first client, who offered David 5 cents for every chicken sold. The entrepreneur agrees and continues to travel around the United States with his culinary offer. In the early 60s, Sanders' chicken was sold in hundreds of restaurants across America.

Finally, David realized himself as a businessman. He is completely satisfied with the results of his activities, having devoted himself to unsurpassed culinary talent. At 70 years old, the Kentucky Fried Chicken brand reaches its peak of popularity, and Colonel Sanders sells the brand to international investors for two million dollars. The new owners persuade David to remain as head of marketing and sales, and he agrees.

The end of life's journey

Sanders Harland died at age 90 in 1980. The colonel devoted the rest of his life to relaxation - having fun, playing golf, and traveling a lot. He and his wife also developed their new restaurant, Claudia Sanders’ Dinner House. All the entrepreneur’s dreams came true - he managed to fill his life with meaning and become happy.

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Colonel Sanders (KFC founder, Garland David Sanders) is the founder of the large well-known fast food chain KFC (Kentucky Fired Chicken, literal translation from English - “Kentucky Fried Chicken”). The most recognizable and common signature dish of the KFC chain is breaded fried chicken with the addition of a variety of aromatic spices and herbs.

The portrait of the founder of the famous fast food chain KFC is traditionally installed in each establishment as a stylized outline of the company. The success story of Colonel Sanders is filled with amazing events that can only happen to a strong-willed person. This entrepreneur is a true hardworker and the architect of his own happiness. Colonel Sanders, his story is an example of how you shouldn’t give up in difficult life situations. His life credo is to run towards his goals and dreams with an unprincipled zeal for success.

Colonel Sanders: biography

Garland David Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in Henryville, Indiana (United States of America). His father, Wilbur David Sanders, was the heir to a wealthy Presbyterian family, and his mother was Margaret Ann Sanders (Dunleavy's maiden name). Unfortunately, young Garland lost his father when he was six years old. The mother worked day and night to somehow feed the family. In view of this, the boy always remained at home alone and was responsible for preparing food. Garland quickly became addicted to cooking; it was difficult to convince him that the kitchen was the domain of women's concerns. Who knew that culinary skills would predetermine the future fate of the young man, and he would become a major millionaire. In his studies, Sanders Jr. did not shine at all with his intelligence - the guy constantly skipped classes and refused to do his homework. Soon, in 1902, he was expelled from school without being allowed to finish the seventh grade. Garland was not at all upset about this, because he dreamed of living an adult life and earning money. The twelve-year-old boy managed to work a lot - he washed cars, worked as a loader at the local market, and also sold home-made pies to passers-by in local neighborhoods.

Young Garland runs away from home

A few years after the death of her husband, Margaret Ann Sanders (mother) begins a new affair with a man and soon marries him. Family changes did not turn out well for Sanders Jr. - his stepfather constantly beat and humiliated him. Without thinking twice, the guy runs away from home and moves to the city of New Alban, which is located in the same state (Indiana). His uncle lived here, who received Garland with warmth.

Early onset of adulthood - 15-year-old future millionaire enlists in the US Army using fake documents

In 1906, difficult military-political events unfolded on the island of the same name and the state of Cuba. Cubans protested against the occupation by American troops. The Ministry of the United States of America decided to organize a campaign for voluntary entry into the ranks of the national army in order to prevent popular unrest in the controlled state. At this time, Sanders decides that he needs to become a military man by any means, but the guy only recently turned fifteen years old. Thinking about how to deceive everyone and start serving his homeland, Garland, with simple manipulations, forges his own documents, where he indicates his majority. Oddly enough, the clever Sanders's scam was successful - the guy became a soldier in the national army of the United States of America. He was assigned to the military logistics division. Initially, the guy was supposed to monitor logistics, as well as keep inventory records for the supply of ammunition. However, no one ever entrusted him with this task. As a result, they found a dubious alternative for him: due to his short stature and frail muscles, he was assigned to an army stable to remove manure. In his autobiography, this is stated as follows: “All I did in the service was shovel horse manure with my bare hands and monitor the hygiene of these long-legged animals.”

During his service, Garland contracted some kind of climate disease, thanks to which he lost 20 kilograms. Having lost literally a third of his weight, Sanders spent some time in a military hospital, but quickly recovered. As a result, Garland finished his service with honors. Demobilized Sanders took a ferry by sea to the port of New Orleans. Having reached the first railroad junction, he boarded a freight train that was traveling along the Mississippi River. Ultimately, the guy reached the city of St. Louis (Missouri).

An alternative version of Sanders' biography after the army

There is another version of events after demobilization: some sources indicate that Colonel Sanders, upon arriving on the continent, traveled to Alabama, where he immediately found work as an assistant in a blacksmith shop. Here he worked in many ways in the future - he washed rail rolling stock at a railway station, worked as an intercity tram conductor, and was also a locomotive fireman, a loader at a furniture factory, an insurance agent, a mechanic in a car repair shop, a ferry captain, a manager of a tire repair company and even an intern courses in jurisprudence in the local court. Colonel Sanders noted that none of his above-mentioned jobs brought him pleasure. Having experienced first-hand the charm of many professions, he realized that he needed to do what he loved - develop the restaurant business.

Studying at university can always be combined with work

A few years later, Colonel Sanders moved to live in Tennessee. Here he got a job as an ordinary worker in the fire safety department and entered LaSalle University as a correspondence student in Chicago. Garland skillfully combined study and work. To his great surprise, he received high grades and also successfully completed all exams. When he worked in the fire department, he had a conflict with one of the employees - a fight broke out, as a result of which Sanders was fired from his position. Then he decides to move to the city of Arkansas and get a new job (here he worked for a while in a mine, and then got a job on a farm). Despite this, Sanders successfully completed his studies at the university.

Happy moments of life: meeting his future wife Claudia and first business

Colonel Sanders (photo below) always mentioned that in his difficult life he constantly earned his living in an unloved profession.

And this is true, because his profession was not the best. However, he received his greatest happiness when he worked as a fireman for the thermal apparatus of a steam locomotive, because at that time he met his love - his future wife Claudia. Being, roughly speaking, a nobody, he dared to propose to her, to which he heard an immediate “yes.” His young wife inspired him with love and care every day, so Sanders always considered himself a happy person. After several years of working on a steam locomotive, Garland got a job as a mechanic in an auto repair shop. And this profession also became no less fateful than the previous one.

He was no longer a young boy. Forty-year-old Sanders was filled with ambition and the desire to achieve more in order to live happily with his wife. A few years later, he opens his own business - an auto repair shop on the twenty-fifth highway, where many long-haul and passenger cars from the northern states of the United States often rush by. This business began to enjoy success because the prudent Garland established his auto repair shop in a favorable (from a marketing point of view) place where there is constant demand. A lot of money began to appear in the Sanders family. It is worth noting that the colonel turned out to be a very enterprising person - he proved himself not only as a successful businessman, but also as a talented forecaster. Garland (Colonel Sanders) concluded that his visitors were hungry tourists or truckers coming from the far north of the country. Based on this, he decides to open a small dining room here, where at first he prepared various dishes himself. Already at that time, the future millionaire developed his own unique recipe for breaded fried chicken. Word began to spread around the area that they were preparing incredible chicken on Route 25.

Title "Kentucky Colonel Sanders"

Colonel Sanders' recipes were kept secret, and the number of people in his establishment only increased. Two well-established businesses, a canteen and an auto repair shop, brought incredible income to his family. Life began to gradually improve. In 1935, the governor of Kentucky honored Garland with the title "Kentucky Colonel Sanders" for making his signature dish a state treasure. Everyone was excited about Kentucky's new "national dish."

In the early 50s, Colonel Sanders developed his own image - he grew an elegant beard and neat mustache, creating the image of an aristocratic pedant professor. Also his calling card was a white tuxedo. All this was complemented by a neat ribbon tie. In this guise he constantly appeared in public. Rumor has it that Sanders had a whole set of identical white suits, there were about 50 of them - for all seasons. Garland did not buy clothes in shopping centers and clothing stores, but liked to order suits from a tailor.

Serious business failures - bankruptcy

Sanders' business was a success for just over fifteen years, constantly improving his recipes and surprising his customers with delicious food. At the age of 62, Colonel Sanders suffered a setback when years of construction on another newer and larger highway ended a few kilometers away. The businessman lost 90 percent of potential buyers. At this time, Garland was very depressed, because he could not foresee such a fate at retirement age. However, the future millionaire and founder of KFS, Colonel Sanders, did not give up and continued to fight the pitfalls of fate.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is back to the rescue.

While he was thinking about how to continue to make a living, Garland came up with the idea that his unique fried chicken recipe could be presented to several large restaurants and ask for a monetary reward for this or a contract that would include a percentage of the proceeds for the sale of his signature dish. . Colonel Sanders gathered his thoughts, filled his suitcase with the necessary things and began to walk around the large restaurants of the state, declaring only one phrase: “I cook a better fried chicken dish than you.” Such a daring and arrogant statement was perceived with contempt - Garland was refused everywhere, the businessman was sent away with a lot of unflattering words addressed to him.

The “Kentucky Colonel” did not become upset, but only continued to distribute offers to all catering establishments. He was rejected a little more than a thousand times. We had to wait quite some time to find our first customer. Gradually, his signature dish began to spread throughout the country, and potential businessmen themselves turned to the colonel with a request for an agreement. At first, the terms of the contract stated that for each portion sold, Colonel Sanders would receive 5 cents (later the interest rate only increased). The monopoly of “breaded wings” was already bringing in fabulous money by the early 60s. Hundreds of restaurants called KFC began to open across all states of America. Colonel Sanders could not believe for a long time that he managed to surpass his goals and himself, especially at such an age! From now on, he felt incredibly happy because he had found his calling. His talent and determination made the public believe in success.

Sale of KFC

As Colonel Sanders (photo below) celebrated his 70th birthday, the idea occurred to him that it was time to retire. Soon the successful businessman announces the sale of the KFC company. This news was immediately picked up by investors. As a result, Garland sells his brainchild for two million dollars. In addition, he will receive $250 thousand a year as a brand ambassador (a stylized portrait of Colonel Sanders). Now his activity is that he needs to “shine his face” everywhere and represent the popular KFC brand. A successful retired millionaire must communicate with the press and be the leader of the company from a marketing standpoint. By rights, Sanders was no longer the owner of a fast food chain, but he no longer needed it at all.

The end of Colonel Sanders' story

On December 16, 1980, 90-year-old Garland David Sanders died. He lived a difficult but happy life. At retirement age, he achieved incredible heights in business, which allowed him to live his last years in complete prosperity. The Colonel loved to travel, play golf, and visit his favorite restaurant called Claudia Sander's Dinner House, which he gave to his beloved wife. That was Colonel Sanders. His story demonstrates a beautiful life, which is filled with happy moments and long-awaited joy.

A few months before his death, he said the following words: “I always wanted to make a lot of money, but I never saw the global meaning in it. Why be rich in a cemetery? There you will no longer be able to manage your money. Many people do not suspect that I gave most of the money I earned to donate to orphans, and also sponsored many churches.” These quotes from Colonel Sanders reveal the full meaning of his warm and kind soul. This man left behind a huge mark and will be remembered for a very long time. Garland David Sanders's grave is in Louisville.

Colonel Sanders - Trotsky

Have you noticed the similarity between these two people? It is obvious! The names Sanders and Trotsky are mentioned quite often, creating many “memes” and “demotivators.”

There is a story about this story: “Not many people know that in 1913, members of the American Socialist Party gave Leon Trotsky a US passport in the name of Garland Sanders. This was originally done symbolically, as a joke about the similarity of the two people. However, in 1935 Lev Davydovich used this document when he fled from Norway to the USA (due to diplomatic pressure from the USSR). The American authorities made an exceptional compromise for the Bolshevik and allowed him to enter the country with only one condition - not to engage in political activities in the United States. The condition was met, but Trotsky in the 60s managed to develop an entire chain of restaurants called K for Communist, which is identical in acronym to the popular fast food KFC.” Well, the public’s imagination is fine...