1. The Sanders Court & Cafe generally served travelers, so when the route planned in 1955 for interstate 75 bypassed Corbin, Sanders sold his properties and traveled the USA to franchise his chicken recipe to restaurant owners. Independent restaurants would pay four (later five) cents on each chicken as a franchise fee, in exchange for Sanders ''secret blend of herbs and spices'' and the right of feature his recipe on their menus and use his name and likeness for promotional purposes. In 1952 he had already successfully franchised his recipe to his friend Pete Harman of South Salt Lake, Utah, the operator of one of the city's largest restaurants.
2. Don Anderson, a sign painter hired by Harman, coined the name ''Kentucky Fried Chicken'''. For Harman, the addition of KFC was away of differentiating his restaurant from competitors; a product from Kentucky was exotic, and evoked imagery of Southern hospitality. Harman Trademarked the phrase '' Its finger lickin good'', which eventually became the company wide slogan. He also introduced the''bucket meal'' in 1957 (14 pieces of chicken, five bread rolls and a pint of gravy in a cardboard bucket). Serving their signature meal in a paper bucket was to become an iconic feature of the company
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