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What if Colonel Sanders was killed in the 1930 shootout at the Shell gas station where he had just opened his first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant? From Wikipedia:

In 1930, the Shell Oil Company offered Sanders a service station in North Corbin, Kentucky rent free, in return for paying them a percentage of sales.[5] Sanders began to serve chicken dishes and other meals such as country ham and steaks.[16] Initially he served the customers in his adjacent living quarters before opening a restaurant. It was during this period that Sanders was involved in a shootout with a Matt Stewart, a local competitor, over the repainting of a sign directing traffic to his station. Stewart killed a Shell official who was with Sanders and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders' competition.[17]
Could a different person or firm have gone on to fill the niche that would be left by the death of Colonel Sanders and the lack of Kentucky Fried Chicken??
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