Extra security for secret KFC recipe
Bosses at KFC were decidedly nervous yesterday when for the first time in almost 70 years the secret chicken recipe left their Louisville headquarters.
The move was made while work takes place to beef up security (shouldn't that be chicken) for the original Colonel Sanders' handwritten recipe.
Security experts were drafted in to oversee the operation which saw the recipe taken, in an armored car and with a police guard, to a secure location.
For 68 years the secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices has been locked in a safe at KFC towers and only two KFC executives know the ingredients, a third executive knows the combination to the safe.
Less than a handful of KFC employees know the identities of the three executives, who are not allowed to travel together on the same plane or in the same car for security reasons.
Former New York City Police Detective Bo Dietl work worked on the security upgrade said: "It was my first security recommendation to keep this high-value asset safe and move it to a top-secret, secure location until new corporate security upgrades are in place."
