Restaurant and Food Service Blog

Pssst. The secret’s out at KFC. Well, sort of. Colonel Harland Sanders’ handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC’s corporate offices for the first time in decades. The temporary relocation is allowing KFC to revamp security around a yellowing sheet of paper that contains one of the country’s most famous recipes.

Shrouded in secrecy, you would think that the folks at YUM! were part of the Da Vinci Code conspiracy. Apparently there are only 2 top execs at KFC who really know the entire recipe and a third who knows the secret combination to the lock to get into the safe. Even all of the suppliers who formulate the recipe are not in the know. There are several manufacturers who only make parts of the recipe and are sworn to a secrecy agreement.

I tried to find out if the famous Todd Wilbur, author of Top Secret Recipe Books, doesn’t have a “clone” recipe online – but does have one of the famous Big Mac!

With so much word of this on the internet and KFC themselves releasing this in a press release, you really have to wonder how secret is this recipe anyway? This recipes has make billions of dollars for the company and they want to hold it close to their chest, but in the same conversation they let the whole world know that it will be temporarily out and be relocated. Sounds more like PR spin then anything else.

I thought that parent company YUM! could be more creative then this.

read more | digg story