Colonel Sanders

Franchising a recipe. Sanders, who ran a roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky, began licensing his fried chicken recipe and pressure-frying method to other restaurants in 1952, often in return for a few cents per chicken sold, travelling from town to town to sign them up. He sold Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1964 for a modest sum and became its paid public face, later complaining publicly about what the new owners did to his gravy.