He rise 1000 times : a true story of world's famous cook

 

This is the story about a boy from Henryville Indiana. In 1895 , When he was six years old his father passed away. His mother had to start working in a tomato cannery , leaving him to cook and care for his siblings. Life hit him hard at a very young age and because of the difficult situations he faced.

 

 He had to work as a farmhand at the age of ten. When he was in sixth grade , he dropped out of high school and left his home. He started working as a painter of horse carriages. When he was 16 , he faked his age to enlist in the US army. After being honourably discharged a year later he started working as a railway laborer and studied law at nearby university until he ruined his legal career by getting into a fight.

He was forced to move back in with his mom and get a job selling life insurances. After sometime, he got fired for not following orders. Some years later he established a ferry boat company and it was an instant success. Later on he tried cashing in on his FERRY BOAT BUSINESS to create a chemical lamp manufacturing company only to find out that another company was already selling electrical lamps much better than his company’s lamp.

 

All this hardship in life but this guy wouldn’t give up. He moved to work as a salesman for a tier company. But again he lost his job when the company closed its manufacturing plant. 

 

By the age of 40 he met the general manager of an oil company who asked him to run a service station for him but the station had to close down as a result of the great depression. That same year the shell oil company offered him a service station , rent-free. In return for paying the company a percentage of sales. He started operating the service station and also began to serve chicken dishes and other simple meals for people who were stopping by at the station. His pan-fried chicken soon became a Favourite with the people of the area and made him famous in the region.

Few years later he took out the station and started a proper restaurant. After fairly succeeding at his venture he started to advertise his food and to his shock , an argument erupted out of the blue with a local competitor and resulted in a fatal shootout with one of his employees dying.

 

Four years later he bought a motel next to his chicken restaurant hoping for better  business but it got fired and burnt down to the ground together with his restaurant. Yet this ambitious man rebuilt and ran a new motel with a 140- seat restaurant until world war-2 forced him to close it down again. When war ended, he tried selling  his recipes to other restaurants. His recipe was rejected 1009 times. When finally in 1952 , he sold his secret recipe  “KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN” for the first time to the city’s largest restaurants. It quickly became a hit and as a result several restaurant owners franchised the concept and paid him $0.04 per chicken.

 

However , good times didn’t last very long. His own restaurant was crippeled when an interesting highway reduced customer traffic.he sold it and was left only with his savings and $105 a month from social security. So finally he pursued his dream to franchise his chicken concept nationwide and travelled the US looking for suitable restaurants. He opened a new restaurant and a company headquarters in 1959. He often slept in the back of his car. He visited a restaurant offer to cook his chicken and if the owner liked it then he negotiated a franchise right. In 1965, at the age of 75 , he was just getting started! 

 

After years of rejection , failure , and misfortunes COLONEL SANDERS’ franchise approach became highly successful. KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand globally, opening outlets in Canada , UK , Mexico and Jamaica. By the mid-1960s, the COLONEL remained the company’s symbol after selling it. He travelled over 400000 KM a year visiting KFC restaurants and delighting customers around the world. At the age of 90 COLONEL SANDNER passed away. At that time there were 6000 KFC locations in 48 different countries. In 2020 there are more than 23000 KFC restaurants in 150 countries worldwide.

 

If you are overwhelmed by rejection or discouraged by setbacks remember the story of COLONEL SANDERS

• A SIX GRADE DROPOUT
• FIRED FROM MULTIPLE JOBS 
• RUINED HIS LEGAL CAREER
• SETBACK BY THE GREAT DEPRESSION , FIRE AND WORLD WAR-2

 And yet became the world's most famous cook after reaching “Retirement Age”.

 

COLONEL SANDERS created one of the largest food chains in the world with many things, but above all he was a great success story! 

With his story we can learn that  despite thousands of rejections and misfortunes, dedication along with hard work can create success ; regardless of age.

 

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