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Ichibanya

Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋) 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.

Current International Locations (Total: 181)

Former International Location (Total: 1)

  • Japan: 1,304 branches[6]
  • China: 46
  • Taiwan: 24
  • Hong Kong: 9
  • South Korea: 36
  • Thailand: 27
  • Philippines: 12[7]
  • United States (Hawaii, California, Texas): 11
  • Indonesia: 10
  • Singapore: 4
  • Vietnam: 2
  • United Kingdom: 2[8]
  • India: 2[9]
  • 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.[10] 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). This dish is one of the distinctive foods of the Nagoya metropolitan area.[11][12]

External links

References

  1. [https://www.ichibanya.co.jp/comp-en/history.html#:~:text=January%2C%201978,cho%2C%20in%20outskirts%20of%20Nagoya. History | ICHIBANYA CO.,LTD. Company Information - CoCo壱番屋]^
  2. Company Profile Ichibanya Co., Ltd., retrieved 9 February 2019^
  3. Ayaka Maki, Shoko Oda. Coco Ichibanya restaurant chain plans to sell Japanese curry ... to India The Japan Times, 24 September 2019^
  4. ココ壱番屋日本のレストランのリスト retrieved 26 July 2014^
  5. ココ壱番屋外国のレストランのリスト retrieved 26 July 2014^
  6. Company profile^
  7. Branches of CURRY HOUSE CoCo ICHIBANYA in the Philippines.^
  8. Curry House Ichibanya UK Japanese Restaurant London WC2H www.ichibanya.uk, retrieved 2020-12-02^
  9. Miyazumi Tatsuro. Japanese-style curry chain ups ante in India Nikkei Asia, 3 November 2022, retrieved 8 November 2022^
  10. Kasey Furutani. Affordable curry chain Coco Ichibanya now serves vegan soup curry Time Out, 8 January 2020^
  11. ICHIBANYA CO., LTD. (Public, TYO:7630) Google, Inc., retrieved 24 December 2010^
  12. http://www.ichibanya.co.jp/pasta/index.html Ichibanya Co., Ltd., retrieved 24 December 2010^