Location: A gas station in Corbin, Kentucky ; and later, every highway in America. 🇺🇸
Story:
Harland Sanders was born in 1890,and failure seemed to follow him like a shadow. He was fired from the railroad for fighting, failed as a lawyer, an insurance salesman, and watched his ferryboat and lamp businesses sink into obscurity. By age 40, he was running a gas station in Kentucky, cooking chicken in the back for truckers just to make ends meet. Even when he found modest success with his "Sanders Court & Café," fire burned it down. When a new highway bypassed his restaurant in 1956, he was left with nothing but a Social Security check and a recipe. 🔎
Twist:
At age 66,with no pension and no quit, Sanders packed his spices, his pressure cooker, and his white suit, and hit the road. He began knocking on restaurant doors, offering his chicken recipe for a nickel per bird sold. Within a few years, he had over 600 franchises. By the time he sold the company in 1964 for $2 million, Kentucky Fried Chicken was a global phenomenon. Colonel Sanders didn't find success in his youth, he built it after a lifetime of setbacks, proving that sometimes the greatest fortunes are cooked up late in life, one piece of chicken at a time. 🍗