His name does not come from the world of movies or books. He is a character who comes from the real world, from the business world... While his smiling portrait has become an icon of the fast and delicious food industry.
It is about Colonel Harland Sanders, the American, whose passion for cuisine helped him achieve success, as the creator of the famous KFC restaurant franchise network, with over 23,000 points in more than 140 countries around the world.
Through his secret recipe, which he created nearly 80 years ago, making a fantastic combination of 11 different spices to marinate and fry chicken-based dishes, he gave the brand its identity and strong point of success, while humanity around the world , offered the unique taste, unrepeatable by anyone else.
Since 2016, when KFC expanded its network of franchise restaurants in Albania, the Colonel's recipe has become the favorite choice of Albanians, when they want to spend time with friends, when they want to celebrate with their families or simply when they miss the taste they fell in love with from the first time. And they have many alternatives, not only if they frequent the 11 restaurants located in the three main cities of the country (in Tirana, Durrës and Vlorë), but also with delivery services, if they want to enjoy this type of food in their homes, sitting in front TV, especially with that big basket (symbol of KFC) in his hands, full of chicken wings, so delicious.
There is a whole "battalion" of more than 300 employees who are at their service, at any time and in any place, to offer them taste, quality and safety. Because KFC in Albania is subject to strong international brand protocols. Because KFC in Albania has in its hands the successful "secret recipe", which is being followed between generations with fanaticism and high professionalism, while the company is developing more and more, in response to the new challenges of the digital age, becoming a leader of innovation in the market through the unique KFC Drive Thru services or the provision of the digital kiosk, which can otherwise be called the "restaurant of the future".
Not only the unique taste that would make Colonel Sanders's recipe so loved by people of all ages and nationalities, but also the food safety that is guaranteed in KFC restaurants would never be enough.
Restaurant employees and managers are trained annually in food safety. Every day KFC restaurants undergo daily re-evaluation processes of cooking programs. Every year, KFC restaurants, all over the world, undergo international audits, thus offering customers everything that Colonel Harland Sanders has wanted since the day he created his magic recipe.
The teams that are following this success story, remember every year, through "Founder's Week at KFC", the famous tradition of fried chicken that Colonel Sanders left behind, along with his philosophy that: "If you can't do it better than anyone else, don't do it at all."
And KFC continues to do better than anyone else, everything it offers to its customers, conveying to every table and home that iconic smile of Colonel Harland Sanders, who seems to wish everyone: Enjoy the secret recipe I shared only with you!