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After selling his Corbin restaurant, Colonel Sanders went on the road to sign up KFC franchisees. Contemporary reporting describes him going into the franchise business in earnest at about 66.

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After selling his roadside restaurant, Colonel Sanders drove the country in his sixties, pitching his fried-chicken recipe to owner after owner — persistence, not luck, built KFC.

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KFC'nin kurucusu Albay Sanders, Corbin'deki restoranını sattıktan sonra yeni KFC bayileri bulmak için yollara düştü. KFC'nin kendi tarihçesi bu dönemi 1956'ya yerleştirir; Sanders o sırada 65-66 yaşındaydı ve franchise işine artık bütün ağırlığıyla asılıyordu.

KFC hikâyesinin güçlü yanı, bir gecede gelen başarı değildir. Sanders yıllarca işlettiği lokantada tarifini sınamıştı; müşteri trafiği düşünce arabasına atlayıp restoran restoran dolaştı, tavuğunu pişirdi ve kabul eden işletmelere tarifi lisansladı. Markayı büyüten şey yaş değil, denenmiş bir ürünle inatçı satış emeğinin birleşmesiydi.

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