Secret recipe or ‘cruji’? Since the early 1930s, the fast food establishment called Kentucky Fried Chicken has offered different dishes containing fried chicken, from hamburgers to salads and the typical pieces that it sells in buckets, without passing up the mashed potatoes that, today, It is one of the most popular.
In Mexico, KFC is one of the best-known food businesses that tend to fill up on different holidays such as Christmas, Children’s Day and sometimes on May 10, which is celebrated on Mother’s Day, where it offers some related promotions. with the date. But what is its story?
Restaurant History: When was Kentucky Fried Chicken founded and how did it get started?
According to information on its official website, the history of this restaurant chain dates back to 1930, when Colonel Harland David Sanders, who obtained that title because he enlisted in the army, acquired the premises of a gas station on the highway from Corbin, Kentucky, United States.
There he began to sell different types of food (not just fried chicken) to those traveling on the highway. However, as the years went by and the restaurant spread, he achieved such fame that in 1952 he founded his first KFC franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah, thus beginning the expansion of the brand.
What does KFC mean in Spanish and how do you spell Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Colonel Sanders, as he was known, patented his secret fried chicken recipe and acquired the name Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1955, which can easily be abbreviated to KFC.
In Spanish, Kentucky Fried Chicken literally means ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken’, alluding to the city where Harland David Sanders set up his first food business.
Achieving success: Who took over the KFC company?
It was in 1964 when Sanders decided to sell the KFC restaurant chain to a group of investors, without specifying the identity of the businessmen or the company, but it is believed that it was an agreement for millions of dollars.
Years passed and despite the success of KFC, it was again for sale: now, PepsiCo acquired the fast food chain in 1986, but the shareholders were divided into a different multinational and that is how Kentucky Fried Chicken came to its current owner.
Who owns KFC chickens today?
In 2024 KFC does not have a single owner, as it belongs to a company that includes different franchises such as Pizza Hut. This is Yum Brands, which also takes over Taco Bell branches.
It should be noted that the director of the company is the businessman David Gibbs, a position he held since 2019.
Yum Brands is a multinational that has more than 30 thousand restaurants in nearly 100 countries, including Mexico. They recently added the Habit chain, which offers grilled burgers.
When did KFC arrive in Mexico?
The arrival of KFC to Mexico happened years after the first location in the United States was founded. According to information on the website, the first branch of the restaurant was in 1963, a year before the sale of the chain and 33 years after its opening.
The place where the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opened in our country was in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
‘Colonel Sanders, the creator’: Who is Harland David Sanders, the founder of KFC?
Colonel Sanders, whose real name is Harland David Sanders, was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. He was born in Henryville, Indiana, in the United States in 1890. On the KFC website it is mentioned that he began cooking for his brothers at the age of 7.
Before deciding to start his own food business and creating the famous company, he had jobs as a stoker in train companies, a farmer, an insurance salesman and a soldier when he enlisted in the army at the age of 16.
It became the official face of the KFC fast food chain, which prevails on the buckets and boxes distributed worldwide. The colonel died on December 16, 1980, at the age of 90.
