Advertised as Kentucky Fried Chicken original recipe

Colonel Sanders originally franchised his chicken recipe, selling it to restaurants. Regular sit-down restaurants, with real plates, silverware and glasses. The fried chicken these restaurants offered was Colonel Sanders' recipe (and maybe biscuits and gravy, can't remember), but the rest was whatever the restaurant offered. One such restaurant in Richmond, Kentucky, was "The Colonel" restaurant. I ate there several times when I was a child. Its building is still there, but the restaurant there now (or at least the last time I was there) has nothing to do with Colonel Sanders. It's also kinda rundown compared to what it used to be.

The fast food version of Kentucky Fried Chicken came later, and the name "KFC" still later. Colonel Sanders sold his interest in Kentucky Fried Chicken for a couple million dollars around 1970 or so, but he continued to be a spokesman for the company until he passed away.

His original restaurant was in Corbin, Kentucky on a major north-south highway (route 25 or 27, can't remember). Did a good business until Interstate 75 was built seven miles away and his business dropped to almost nothing. Broke, he began selling franchises, and eventually the business made him wealthy.

The KFC in Corbin has a Colonel Sanders "museum," with some of the furniture from the original restaurant/motel/gas station. Harland Sanders Café and Museum - Wikipedia

My mother's family was from Kentucky, and my mother and aunt were both Kentucky Colonels. Their father (my grandfather) was also. That was an honorary title available to anyone with the right connections. No military service necessary.