8 Things You May Not Know About the Real Colonel Sanders

On September 24, 1952, American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" (Kentucky Fried Chicken) opened its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah. An excerpt from the article:

"5. His first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise was in Utah.
The colonel’s fried chicken first became a fast-food hit in an unlikely location—Salt Lake City, Utah. It was there in 1952 that Pete Harman, a Sanders friend who operated one of the city’s largest restaurants, became the colonel’s first franchisee. According to Ozersky, the Harman restaurant pioneered the famous bucket container and used the “Kentucky Fried Chicken” moniker. What most people associate with worldwide fast food today looked like a regional specialty on a menu in 1950s Utah.

Sanders was 65 and reliant on a $105-a-month Social Security check when he incorporated Kentucky Fried Chicken and began driving his 1946 Ford around the country signing up new franchisees."