Ichibanya
| File:Logo of Japanese restaurant chain Coco Ichibanya.gif | |
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Foodservice |
| Founded | July 1, 1982 |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 1,476 (January 2019) [1] |
Area served | Japan United States China Taiwan South Korea Thailand Malaysia Hong Kong Singapore Philippines Indonesia Vietnam United Kingdom |
Key people | Toshiya Hamajima, president and representative director |
| Products | Curry rice Ankake Spaghetti |
| Revenue |  ¥38,043 million (May 2010) |
 ¥3,685 million (May 2010) | |
| ¥1,770 million (May 2010) | |
| Total assets | ¥28,922 million (May 2010) |
Number of employees | 775 |
| Website | www |
Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋, Kabushiki gaisha Ichiban'ya) (TYO: 7630) is a Japanese food services company based in Ichinomiya, Aichi.[2]
CoCo ICHIBANYA chain
ICHIBANYA Co., Ltd. owns the top curry rice restaurant chain in Japan, Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA or usually just CoCo ICHIBAN or CoCo ICHI. The chain owns both direct and franchise restaurants in total of twelve countries: United States, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and Japan and soon India.[3][4]The Curry House chain is by far the company's largest business.
- Japan: 1,304 branches [5]
180 International Locations
- China : 79
- South Korea : 36
- Thailand : 27
- Singapore : 12
- Philippines : 9
- United States (Hawaii, Los Angeles) : 8
- Indonesia : 6
- Malaysia : 1
- Vietnam : 1
- United Kingdom : 1
- India: 1[6]
Pasta de Coco
The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco.[7] It sells a pasta dish which is a kind of spaghetti with starchy sauce known as Ankake spaghetti (あんかけスパゲッティ, ankake supagetti). This dish is one of the distinctive foods of the Nagoya metropolitan area.[8][9]
References
- ^ "Company Profile". Ichibanya Co., Ltd. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "Coco Ichibanya restaurant chain plans to sell Japanese curry ... to India". Japan Times. 24 September 2019.
- ^ "ココ壱番屋日本のレストランのリスト".
- ^ "ココ壱番屋外国のレストランのリスト" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ http://www.ichibanya.co.jp/english/info/profile.html
- ^ https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200804/p2g/00m/0bu/019000c
- ^ "Affordable curry chain Coco Ichibanya now serves vegan soup curry". Time Out. 8 January 2020.
- ^ "ICHIBANYA CO., LTD. (Public, TYO:7630)". Google, Inc. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ パスタでココ (in Japanese). Ichibanya Co., Ltd. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
External links
- CoCo ICHIBANYA's official web site
- CoCo ICHIBANYA USA's official web site
- Pasta de CoCo's official web site
- CoCo ICHIBANYA Indonesia's official Instagram account