Harland Sanders Café and Museum

The Harland Sanders Café is a historic restaurant located in North Corbin, Kentucky.

Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, operated the restaurant from 1940 to 1956.

Sanders served meals for travelers in the back of the service station at his own dining table, which seated six people.

This soon changed with the relocation of the U.S. Route 25 split into US 25E and US 25W from being in the literal middle of his properties, to a new US 25E roadbed a mile north, in order to allow better access to US 25E from the recently proposed Interstate 75.

A modern KFC kitchen was also built adjacent to the café on some of the former motel land, and the two structures attached by an entrance lobby that contains many of the smaller museum displays.

Tourists can purchase their food in the modern KFC (left) and dine in the café (right) which now serves both as a museum and as the seating area for the restaurant.
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