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He probably didn't create it here, but it's been reported that Sanders worked at a restaurant on Aurora Avenue North. According to KFC, Sanders developed the secret recipe in the 1930s when he operated the Sanders Court and Cafe restaurant and motel in Corbin, Kentucky. But in a biography of Sanders, his second wife recalled the two of them and another young woman driving to Seattle in fall 1942 for jobs at a Clarks Restaurant, which were big here at the time. He'd met namesake Walter Clark in Chicago at a convention of the National Restaurant Association. Local legend says that Sanders worked on his chicken recipe at the Twin Teepees across form Green Lake, which was a Clark's restaurant. But it appears he already had the recipe developed and was only lured there for the promise of a job in Seattle's booming wartime economy.
He probably didn't create it here, but it's been reported that Sanders worked at a restaurant on Aurora Avenue North. According to KFC, Sanders developed the secret recipe in the 1930s when he operated the Sanders Court and Cafe restaurant and motel in Corbin, Kentucky. But in a biography of Sanders, his second wife recalled the two of them and another young woman driving to Seattle in fall 1942 for jobs at a Clarks Restaurant, which were big here at the time. He'd met namesake Walter Clark in Chicago at a convention of the National Restaurant Association. Local legend says that Sanders worked on his chicken recipe at the Twin Teepees across form Green Lake, which was a Clark's restaurant. But it appears he already had the recipe developed and was only lured there for the promise of a job in Seattle's booming wartime economy.

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