KFC Corporation, based in Louisville, Ky., is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain specializing in Original Recipe®, Extra Crispy™ and Colonel's Crispy Strips® with home-style sides, Honey BBQ Wings, and freshly made chicken sandwiches. There are more than 14,000 KFC outlets in more than 80 countries and territories around the world, serving some 12 million customers each day. KFC Corporation is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., Louisville, Ky. KFC is a brand and operating segment, called a "concept", of Yum! Brands since 1997. when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global Restaurants Inc.
The company was founded as Kentucky Fried Chicken by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, though the idea of KFC's fried chicken actually goes back to 1930. The company adopted the abbreviated form of its name in 1991. Starting in April 2007, the company began using its original name, Kentucky Fried Chicken, for its signage, packaging and advertisements in the United States as part of a new corporate re-branding program; newer and remodeled restaurants will have the new logo and name while older stores will continue to use the 1980s signage. Additionally, Yum! continues to use the abbreviated name freely in its advertising.
KFC History, Mission, and vision
Since the 1950's, KFC has grown at a remarkable pace from one small roadside restaurant, to an internationally renowned restaurant chain - the largest chain of chicken restaurants in the world. None of this would have happened had it not been for the persistence of one man - Colonel Harland D Sanders. The Colonel was born in 1890 and was only six when his father died and his mother had to go out to work to support the family. He became a dab - hand at cooking for the family and was soon preparing a wide range of regional dishes.
It was at the age of 40 working as a service station operator in Corbin, Kentucky, that the Colonel returned to his love of cooking and began to serve