Article: Original Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee opens 5,000th unit in Daly city: helps 5,000 Bay Area needy. (Leon Harman, San Francisco Bay Area)

ORIGINAL KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN FRANCHISEE OPENS 5,000TH UNIT

IN DALY CITY: HELPS 5,000 BAY AREA NEEDY

DALY CITY, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The first man to take a chance on Colonel Harland Sanders' recipe for fried chicken 38 years ago, today opened the nation's 5,000th Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant here -- and a company official predicted the system will double in the next decade.

Together with senior officers of Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp., Leon "Pete" Harman of Los Altos, Calif., Colonel Sanders' first franchisee and operator of more than 240 Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, cut the ribbon for the company's ...

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