Ichibanya
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| TYO: 7630 | |
| Industry | Foodservice |
| Founded | January 1978[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 1,476 (January 2019)[2] |
Area served | Japan United States China Taiwan South Korea Thailand Malaysia Hong Kong Singapore Philippines Indonesia India Vietnam United Kingdom |
Key people | Toshiya Hamajima, president and representative director |
| Products | Curry rice Ankake Spaghetti |
| Revenue |  ¥48.29 billion (2023) |
| ¥3.61 billion (2023) | |
 ¥2.54 billion (2023) | |
| Total assets | ¥42.43 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 775 |
| Website | www.ichibanya.co.jp/english/index.html www.ichibanyausa.com ichibanyaindia.com ichibanya.uk www.ichibanya.com.cn |
Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋, Kabushiki gaisha Ichiban'ya) is a Japanese food services company based in Ichinomiya, Aichi.[3]
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 a total of thirteen countries: United States, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Japan and India.[4][5] The chain used to have an outlet in Malaysia, however, due to lack of popularity and poor business, Ichibanya recently shut down the outlet. The Curry House chain is by far the company's largest business.
- Japan: 1,304 branches[6]
Current International Locations (Total: 175)
- China: 46
- Taiwan: 24
- Hong Kong: 9
- South Korea: 36
- Thailand: 27
- Philippines: 14
- United States (Hawaii, California, Texas): 11
- Indonesia: 6
- Singapore: 4
- Vietnam: 2
- United Kingdom: 2[7]
- India: 2[8]
Former International Location (Total: 1)
- Malaysia: 1
Halal and vegetarian
The company has a vegetarian menu consisting of plant-based curry and two outlets offering halal option in Akihabara and Shinjuku.
Pasta de Coco
The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco.[9] 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.[10][11]
References
- ^ History | ICHIBANYA CO.,LTD. Company Information - CoCo壱番屋
- ^ "Company Profile". Ichibanya Co., Ltd. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "Coco Ichibanya restaurant chain plans to sell Japanese curry ... to India". The 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.
- ^ "Company profile".
- ^ "Curry House Ichibanya UK Japanese Restaurant London WC2H". www.ichibanya.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Tatsuro, Miyazumi (3 November 2022). "Japanese-style curry chain ups ante in India". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ "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