raymond allen - who is only a handful of people in the world to know its secret recipe - opened the first franchise in preston , lancashire , in 1965 that he had become a personal friend of harland ` the colonel ' sanders after meeting during a conference in chicago 50 years ago .
mr allen still has a personal hand-written copy of the recipe which is believed to be made up of 11 herbs and spices - and is a closely guarded secret by the firm that