You may be familiar with the famous fast-food chain KFC, but do you know the story of how it all started? It’s a story of ...

In the world of brand mascots, KFC's Colonel Sanders is one of the most iconic. He's so well-known that just reading his name ...

The property is currently home to Claudia Sanders Dinner House restaurant and banquet hall Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

So, yet again, the lifelong entrepreneur pivoted. He put on the white suit in 1950 and never looked back. Colonel Sanders sold his first franchise in 1952 — to Pete Harman of Salt Lake City ...

Have you heard of Colonel Sanders before? If you haven’t heard of him, you have definitely tried his time-tested recipes. At KFC. Yes, he is the old gentleman in the KFC logo. However being an ...

A statue of Colonel Sanders, with its white beard and white suit badly stained and deteriorating, was laid to rest after a rather peculiar life. In Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox went ...

Sanders began dressing the part, adopting the white suit and Kentucky colonel tie that would help make him a pop-culture icon. In 1952, he made a deal with his restaurateur friend, Pete Harman ...