Gryphon's Aeire Food Fact - What Year And Location Was The First Kentucky

What year and location was the first Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant?

ANSWER: It depends on exactly what you mean by first.  

Harland Sanders first served chicken in Sanders Cafe located in a 
service station in Corbin, Kentucky. 

He opened it in 1929 and it had become so well known that it was in 1935 
that he received his honorary colonel's title from the governor. 

In 1939 he is supposed to have perfected the secret recipe and the pressure 
cooking method of cooking the chicken. 

He sold the Sanders Cafe and while on the road trying to sign up restaurants 
to sell his chicken. 

These were not KFC's, but independent restaurants who would sell chicken 
made with his secret method and recipe.  

He only signed up a few restaurants in this manner.  Details of these deals 
are very sketchy. I believe it likely that he was really showing and selling 
the pressure cooking method at this time (and maybe equipment?), and not 
some secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices. 

In 1952 he met Pete Harman from Utah, and the two of them agreed on a 
franchise concept, with Harman becoming the first franchisee. 

He opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken in Salt Lake City 
(also known as Harman's Cafe).


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