Harland Sanders was sixty five when his restaurant and motel sold at auction for seventy five thousand dollars, barely enough to pay his debts. With a pension cheque of one hundred and five dollars a month, a pressure cooker and a blend of eleven herbs and spices, he drove from town to town cooking for restaurant owners and asking for a nickel a chicken. This episode follows the whole story: the service station in North Corbin, the white suit, the interstate that bypassed his town, Pete Harman's first franchise, the sale to John Y Brown Junior and Jack Massey for two million dollars, Heublein, the lawsuit over his wife's restaurant, the gravy he called horrible in the Courier Journal, the New York Times critic, and the man who stayed the face of a chain he no longer trusted.
Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
