The History of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Colonel Harland Sanders founder Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC is one of the largest restaurant businesses in the world. It is in more than eighty countries globally. In his forties Colonel Sander began cooking for travelers in his gas station. The gas station was located in Corbin, Kentucky. Instead of coming to his gas station for gas they started coming for Colonel Sanders cooked meals. Harland Sanders expanded his business across the street opening a restaurant that seated one-hundred and forty-two people. The colonel pressure cooked his chicken. When fresh chicken is pressed cooked it cooks faster. Sanders invented his secret eleven herbs and spices recipe to coat his chickens. His eleven herbs and spices are still used today in Kentucky Fried Chicken’s recipes. Because of his special cooking techniques Governor, Ruby Laffoon in 1935 made Harland Sanders a Kentucky Colonel. After 1952, Colonel goal was to make his company a franchise. He traveled miles by car to enfranchise his business. By 1964 Colonel Sanders had over 600 franchised outlets in the United States and Canada. In 1964, Colonel Sanders sold his interest in the United States companies for only $2 million. Colonel Sanders remained a spokesman for KFC

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A cellular phone or cell phone is a wireless phone which most of the people use to communicate these days. It has been a rapid transition from the use of house phones to cell phones. The cell phone usage has increased a lot and it has become one of the main sources of wireless communication.

In the year 1843, Michael Faraday studied about the wireless communication and discovered that the space is capable of conducting electricity. He was the fist man who studied and developed cell phones. In 1865 “Doctor Mahlon Loomis” communicated through the wireless communication. Loomis was also the first person to communicate through the wireless atmosphere. He also came up with an idea to transmit and receive messages through atmosphere. After his great discovery, he was awarded fifty thousand for his research.

In the year 1973, Martin Copper invented Motorola, which was the first cell phone manufacturing company. He took up the project and the people of New York started using the cell phone manufactured by Motorola. He manufactured the first cell phone in 1977 in Chicago. When the first cell phone came out, around 2000 people gave a free trial. After using the cell phone in New York, people from different places also started using it. When the first cell phone came out, it was huge and the people during those times did not know how to make it compact. In the year 1988, big company’s started manufacturing cell phones. There were over fifty four places all across the world.

Nowadays the cell phones are getting harder to use. Even now there are some people who only know to make call and store number in the phone, but this is not how the companies think. There are cell phones which come with lots of feature (Bluetooth, Infrared, Music player, video player, camera etc) in it.

If we try to trace back the history of Coca Cola, we will see that the story of Coca Cola started in Atlanta Georgia more than 100 years ago (in year 1886) when Doctor John Pemberton invented it. However, its taste and ingredients have changed over the period of time but when it comes to the brand image it is second to none. , its origins and original recipe as an elixir are quite different than they are today. As far as brand rivalry is concerned Coca Cola and Pepsi top the list. Perhaps these soft drinks companies have enjoyed a leadership position worldwide. They have been a great topic for debate for common man and brand managers, alike.

A very few people actually know that what they drink as a soft drink was originally intended as a patent medicine during its invention by John Pemberton in the late 19th century. Many sources claim that Coca Cola was first sold on May 8, 1886 to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta. You will be surprised to note that Coca Cola is sold in more than 200 countries with different brand names and tastes. But the same charm continues as it was years ago. And now it has become a household name world over.

We think the story would be incomplete if don’t mention another most popular brand name McDonalds. When it comes to fast food, McDonald tops the list. The history of McDonalds was started in 1940 when two brothers Dick and Mac McDonald started their fast food business in California. Apart from several well known food items McDonalds is know for its hamburgers. In the year 1948 they reinvented their restaurant by introducing Speedy Service System. So apart from quality of hamburgers, the other major thing was timely delivery of your hamburgers at your home. So no wait, no queue, just order your burger and it will be delivered at your doorstep within no time.

Baskin Robbins is founded by two men with hard work and for their dreams come to true. This is combination of two competitors of each other in same business type that comes into one unity in 1953. There were two men, both were brother-in-law named Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, they both have their venture related to Ice cream with respectively name Burt’s Ice Cream shop and Irv’s Snowbird Ice Cream. Snowbird Ice cream served ice cream with 21 flavors and after merging, they came to market with 31 flavors.

Baskin Robbins is known for its slogan “31 flavors” and this idea came with came from the Carson-Roberts advertising agency, in 1953. It claims to be world’s largest ice cream franchise with more than 5800 locations. It sells ice cream among the 30 countries like India, Pakistan, UAE, UK, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Bahrain, South Korea, Panama, Taiwan and Malaysia.

In Corporate, with first franchise was executed of Ice Cream in May 20 in 1948 for the store at 1130 South Adams in Glendale which was one of six opened stores in 1948. Next succeed year, they opened their production facility. They decided to sell their stores to managers, and then first franchised food business. In 1953, they hired to Carson-Roberts Advertising and with 31 flavors based store was opened in 804 North Glendale Ave. in Glendale, California. In November of 1962, the company was succeed to Baskin Robbins Inc. with past name of Huntington Ice Cream Company. This company also became first to introduce ice cream cakes.

In 1972, The company became to public with selling of 17% share by the United Brands Company which hired to Baskin Robbins Inc after the death of Burt Baskin. 1793, the J Lycon acquired to United Brands and merged with Allied Breweries company and became to Allied-Lycon in 1978. Allied-Lycon is merged with Pedro Domecq S.A. in 1994 and became Allied Domeq.