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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s the 1950s in Kentucky and Harland Sanders faces bankruptcy once again. 65-years-old, broke, unemployed and desperate, he barnstorms the country, living out of his car, selling his secret fried chicken recipe to restaurant and diner owners. Franchising is a new concept and it’s hard going, but Sanders makes an invaluable convert of Pete Harman, a Utah restaurateur, who becomes his first franchisee. Harman creates the icons of the Kentucky Fried Chicken brand, including its name, and becomes a lifelong champion of the company. Meanwhile in Atlanta, a local airline presents Truett Cathy with a surplus of boneless chicken, which he slips into a bun and turns into pure southern fried chicken gold.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon music.
0:04.6	Download the app today.
0:07.0	A note to listeners, this episode contains adult content and language.
0:19.8	It's 1952 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:26.6	Pete Harmon unscrews a broken switch plate on the walk-in cooler of his cafe.
0:32.0	Harmon is 33 and beefy from years of working the grill and restaurants.
0:37.0	But despite working a long day in a hot kitchen, his white button down is spotless and his
0:42.0	khakis still hold a crease.
0:44.7	He was raised by his aunt after his mother died of the Spanish flu and Aunt Kerry was a
0:49.0	stickler for cleanliness.
0:51.7	Harmon feels a tap on his shoulder and turns around.
0:55.6	He's astonished to see the odd old geyser in the frock coat and string tie that he met
0:59.7	last year at the National Restaurant Association's conference.
1:03.8	Quite hard on sanders.
1:05.7	What are you doing in my cooler?
1:08.1	Sanders is 62 but more energetic than ever.
1:10.9	I'm headed to Australia.
1:12.7	Some son of a bitch minister there says he can help people break sinful habits like my
1:17.0	infernal cousin.
1:18.8	Anyway I have a bastard of a layover so I thought I'd come see you.
1:23.7	Despite his cussing, sanders is religious.
1:27.1	So is Harmon who grew up the youngest of 14 children in a Mormon family.
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