question: How do restaurants like KFC manage to keep their recipe a "secret" when they have thousands of employees working for them worldwide?
comment: As someone who works in fast food, basically your just taught how to cook and build said foods. Everything that's high end, either is premade or made by managers. For example, ik big mac sauce is 1000 island sauce, and some other ingrediants, but i don't know them. My bosses do though.
passages: A copy of the recipe, signed by Sanders, is held inside a safe inside a vault in KFC's Louisville headquarters, along with eleven vials containing the herbs and spices. To maintain the secrecy of the recipe, half of it is produced by Griffith Laboratories before it is given to McCormick, who add the second half.
   In reference to the original recipe, the official Twitter account of KFC follows only eleven other accounts: Six public figures (ranging from politics to sport) named Herb as well as the five members of the Spice Girls.
  
  Section::::Recipe.
  
  A copy of the recipe, signed by Sanders, is held inside a safe inside a vault in KFC's Louisville headquarters, along with eleven vials containing the herbs and spices. To maintain the secrecy of the recipe, half of it is produced by Griffith Laboratories before it is given to McCormick, who add the second half.
   KFC Original Recipe
  
  The KFC Original Recipe is a secret mix of ingredients that fast food restaurant chain KFC uses to produce fried chicken.
  
  Section::::History.
   In 1999, a couple who bought the house formerly occupied by Colonel Sanders found scribbled notes purported to be the secret recipe. Initially KFC wanted to file a lawsuit against the couple to stop an auction of the notes, but by early 2001, it dropped the lawsuit, claiming the scribbled notes are "nowhere close" to the original recipe.
   Sanders' Original Recipe of "11 herbs and spices" is one of the most famous trade secrets in the catering industry. Franchisee Dave Thomas, better known as the founder of Wendy's, argued that the secret recipe concept was successful because "everybody wants in on a secret" and former KFC owner John Y. Brown, Jr. called it "a brilliant marketing ploy." "The New York Times" described the recipe as one of the company's most valuable assets. The recipe is not patented, because patents are published in detail and come with an expiration date, whereas trade secrets can remain the intellectual property of their holders in perpetuity.
   The secret recipe is regularly identified with the phrase "eleven herbs and spices," the amount and identification of which remain a trade secret. The catchphrase was used for an Easter egg pun on KFC's Twitter account, which follows eleven other accounts: six persons named Herb, and the five members of the Spice Girls.
  
  Section::::Logos.
   Sanders' Original Recipe of "11 herbs and spices" is one of the most famous trade secrets in the catering industry. The recipe is not patented, because patent law requires public disclosure of an invention and provides protection only for a strictly limited term, whereas trade secrets can remain the intellectual property of their holders in perpetuity.
   Secret Recipe (restaurant)
  
  Secret Recipe Cakes and Café Sdn Bhd (doing business as Secret Recipe) is a Malaysian halal-certified café chain company established since 1997. It has international branches in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar, Maldives and Bangladesh. It serves cakes and fusion food in a service environment.
   Chefs provide the producers with shopping lists for each of the possible secret ingredients. Consequently, they can surmise what the secret ingredient will be just before it is officially revealed, based on which of their items were purchased.
  
  Section::::Format.:Special battles.
   Joe Ledington of Kentucky, a nephew by marriage of Colonel Sanders, claimed to have found a copy of the original KFC fried chicken recipe on a handwritten piece of paper in an envelope in a scrapbook. In August 2016, "Chicago Tribune" staffers conducted a cooking test of this recipe and claimed after a few attempts that, with the addition of MSG flavor-enhancer, Ac'cent, they produced fried chicken which tasted "indistinguishable" from the chicken they purchased at KFC.
  
  Section::::Products.:Equipment.
   In 1983, William Poundstone conducted laboratory research into the coating mix, as described in his book "Big Secrets", and claimed that a sample he examined contained only flour, salt, monosodium glutamate and black pepper. KFC maintains that it still adheres to Sanders' original 1940 recipe. In Todd Wilbur's television program "Top Secret Recipe", the Colonel's former secretary, Shirley Topmiller, revealed that Sanders learned from his mother that sage and savory are good seasonings for chicken. Also, Winston Shelton, a former friend of the Colonel, said that the secret recipe contains Thalassery black pepper.
   It is well attested that Harland Sanders asked Bill Summers of Marion-Kay Spices in Brownstown, Indiana, US to recreate his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices. While alive, Sanders recommended the Marion-Kay seasoning to franchisees over the corporate version, as he believed the latter had been made inferior by its owners. In 1982, after Sanders' death, KFC brought a lawsuit against Marion-Kay and the latter was barred from selling its mixture to KFC franchises. The Marion-Kay seasoning is still sold under the name "99-X," and according to Sanders biographer Josh Ozersky, it is indistinguishable from the original KFC recipe.
   An ingredient or group of ingredients (referred to as the "secret ingredient(s)") is revealed, and the cooking begins. On occasion, the ingredients are actually a 'theme meal;' for example, eggs, bacon, potatoes, etc. are revealed and thus the "secret ingredient" is breakfast. Just as with the original "Iron Chef", the "secret" ingredient is not truly secret. Both the competitor and the Iron Chef are given a list of three to five ingredients before the battle, of which one will be the secret ingredient.
   In 2011, a manuscript of a book on cooking that Sanders apparently wrote in the mid-1960s was found in KFC archives. It includes some cooking recipes from Sanders as well as anecdotes and life lessons. KFC said it was planning to try some of the recipes and to publish the 200-page manuscript online.
  
  Section::::Legacy.:Charitable giving.
   KFC uses its Original Recipe as a means to differentiate its product from its competitors. Early franchisee Pete Harman credited the chain's popularity to the recipe and the product, and John Y. Brown cites the "incredibly tasty, almost addictive" product as the basis of KFC's staying power. On the other hand, Allen Adamson, managing director of brand consultancy Landor, remains unconvinced about the contribution of the secret formula aspect. He argues: "The story may still be part of these companies' folklore, but I'd be surprised if more than 2 percent buy the brand because of it."
   In August 2016, the "Chicago Tribune" reported that Joe Ledington of Kentucky, a nephew by marriage of Colonel Sanders, had claimed to have found a copy of the original KFC fried chicken recipe on a handwritten piece of paper in an envelope in a scrapbook. "Tribune" staffers conducted a cooking test of this recipe, which took several attempts to get right. They had to determine whether the "Ts" meant tablespoons or teaspoons, and soon concluded the correct interpretation was tablespoons. After some trial and error, they decided the chicken should be soaked in buttermilk and coated once in the breading mixture, then fried in oil at 350 degrees Fahrenheit in a pressure fryer until golden brown. As a pressure fryer was too big, a deep fryer was used alternatively to substitute the pressure fryer. They also claimed that with the addition of MSG as a flavor enhancer, they could produce fried chicken which tasted "indistinguishable" from fried chicken they had purchased at KFC.
   Lee Cummings, the nephew of Colonel Harland Sanders (founder of KFC), spent much of his childhood in the kitchen of his Henryville, Indiana home. Cummings began traveling with Sanders in 1952, selling their own special blend of spices along with their famous pressure cookers, which later became part of KFC's "Secret Recipe". In three years, Cummings and Sanders opened over 800 KFC restaurants.
   As a leading and largest café chain in Malaysia with Halal-certification awarded by Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM), Secret Recipe is committed to continue to adhere to the standards of preparation of all food and processing plant in the restaurant in accordance to the regulatory guidelines including HACCP and VHM guidelines.
  
  Section::::History.
  
  Founded in 1997, the company has registered double digit growth for the past five years. On 15 February 2014, Fosun International, a Chinese investment company invested a total of RMB210.5 million ($30.7 million) in Secret Recipe, thus becoming the second largest shareholder in the company.
  
  Section::::Locations.
   The recipe found by Joe Ledington reads as follows:
  
  11 Spices – Mix With 2 Cups White Fl.
  
  BULLET::::1. 2/3 Ts Salt
  
  BULLET::::2. 1/2 Ts Thyme
  
  BULLET::::3. 1/2 Ts Basil
  
  BULLET::::4. 1/3 Ts Oregano
  
  BULLET::::5. 1 Ts Celery salt
  
  BULLET::::6. 1 Ts Black pepper
  
  BULLET::::7. 1 Ts Dried mustard
  
  BULLET::::8. 4 Ts Paprika
  
  BULLET::::9. 2 Ts Garlic salt
  
  BULLET::::10. 1 Ts Ground ginger
  
  BULLET::::11. 3 Ts White pepper
   During the late 80s, Paré asked a local Morinville, Alberta resident, Jeannette Bachand, for some recipes to include in an upcoming cookbook. The first of Bachand's recipes were published in 1989 after Banchard called Company's Coming for a specific recipe for green tomatoes. There were no recipes for such a thing and was called by Paré for some recipes. When Dinners of the World was being written for release in 1991, Pare asked Blanchard for French Canadian recipes. Four of the recipes are featured in the book, but her name is not due to the company's style.
  
  Section::::List of cookbooks.
   List of countries with KFC franchises
  
  This is a list of countries with KFC franchises. 
   By the very late 1930s, Harland Sanders' Corbin, Kentucky, gas station was so well known for its fried chicken, that Sanders decided to remove the gas pumps and build a restaurant and motel in its place. While perfecting his secret recipe with 11 herbs and spices, Sanders found that pan frying chicken was too slow, requiring 30 minutes per order. Deep frying the chicken required half the time, but produced dry, unevenly done chicken. In 1939 he found that using a pressure cooker produced tasty, moist chicken in eight or nine minutes. By July 1940 Sanders finalized what came to be known as his Original Recipe.
   Gerald Boyles developed two secret recipes for the chain when it was still a Kewpee: burger dressing/sauce and onion ring batter. It was distributed by Gordon Food Service and made by Chadalee (now Litehouse Inc.) at its Lowell facility.
  
  BULLET::::- burger sauce: while most assume that it is just mayo and olives, Litehouse would only reveal that it contains eggs and fresh lemon.
  
  BULLET::::- onion ring batter: most employee assume that is Drake's batter and water.
  
  Section::::Return.
   In April 2018, partial sets of the recipes were distributed to diners at a reenactment of one of the meals described in "Too Many Cooks"—the "American Dinner". The Wolfe Pack event took place at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
  
  Section::::Reviews and commentary.
   The Recipe
  
  The Recipe may refer to:
  
  BULLET::::- "The Recipe" (album), a 1998 album by Mack 10
  
  BULLET::::- "The Recipe" (film), a 2010 South Korean film
  
  BULLET::::- "The Recipe" (song), a 2012 song by Kendrick Lamar
  
  BULLET::::- "The Recipe", a 2009 album by Mambo Sauce
  
  BULLET::::- "The Recipe", a song by 10 Years from "The Autumn Effect"
  
  BULLET::::- "The Recipe", a song by Kodak Black from the 2017 album "Project Baby 2"
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Recipe, a set of instructions for preparing something, especially food
  
  BULLET::::- The Recipe for Gertrude, an anime serialization
  
presuppositions: Restaurant employees know the recipes used in creating the restaurants foods. It would be difficult for a fast food restaurant to keep their recipes secret when thousands of employees work for them.
corrections: Employees know how to prepare the restaurants food, but employees do not know the restaurants recipes.  The majority of employee just build and cook the foods and secret information belongs to the higher-ups.
raw_presuppositions: Restaurant employees know the recipes used in creating the restaurants foods. It would be difficult for a fast food restaurant to keep their recipes secret when thousands of employees work for them. It would be difficult for a fast food restaurant to keep their recipes secret when thousands of employees work for them.
raw_corrections: Employees know how to prepare the restaurants food, but employees do not know the restaurants recipes.  The majority of employee just build and cook the foods and secret information belongs to the higher-ups. The majority of employee just build and cook the foods and "secret" information belongs to the higher-ups.