Sanders sold his Corbin cafe in 1956, five years after the first KFC franchise opened, not in Kentucky, but just outside of Salt Lake City. The current building, originally a restaurant-motel complex, opened in 1940 to replace the original Sanders Cafe, which was destroyed by fire the year prior. Located in the city of Corbin, this is very same spot where filling station operator and string tie enthusiast Colonel Harland Sanders ( not that kind of colonel) first wooed motorists off the highway with his scrumptious pressure-fried chicken prepared with a (still) secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.
The Sanders Cafe is, of course, the ancestral home of Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Bluegrass State–born fast-food behemoth that today ranks as the world’s second-largest restaurant chain. (It’s drive-thru, however, remained open during the renovation process.) The storied roadside restaurant reopened to great fanfare in late April, an unveiling date that came a bit later than anticipated due to the pandemic.
Route 25 in southeastern Kentucky, emerged earlier this year from an extensive, preservation-focused exterior and interior refresh that first kicked off in 2019. The Sanders Cafe, a National Register of Historic Places-listed eatery and museum situated on a busy stretch of U.S.
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