Fast-food chains of China

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KFC in China

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)

KFC is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is China's largest restaurant chain. KFC restauruants in China are owned or franchised by Yum China, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains in China and was spun off from Yum! Brands in 2016.

KFC has 5,138 outlets in China as of 2017.

According to research by Millward Brown, KFC was the most powerful foreign brand in China in 2013.

KFC became the first Western fast food company in China after its first outlet opened in Qianmen, Beijing, in November 1987. The operation was a joint venture, with a 60 percent stake held by KFC, 27 percent by the Beijing Tourist Bureau and 13 percent by Beijing Food Production. In early 1988, Bank of China took a 25 percent stake in the venture, and KFC's original stake was diluted to 51 percent.

Warren Liu, a former vice-president of Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC's former parent company) argued that, "being the first ... has continued to provide KFC with a substantial competitive advantage." By 1988 the Beijing outlet had the highest volume sales of any KFC in the world.

Instead of importing American managers, KFC hired management from rising Asian economies such as Taiwan. Existing Chinese distribution infrastructure was poor or non-existent, so KFC created its own, which ensured high quality standards. The chain had an early advantage against its Western fast food rivals, as fried chicken has been a staple Chinese dish since antiquity, whereas hamburgers were foreign and relatively unknown.

By 1994, there were 28 KFC outlets in China, including seven in Beijing. By 1997, there were 100 outlets.

In 2008, CEO David Novak announced plans to open more than 20,000 restaurants in China, saying: "We're in the first innings of a nine-innings ball game in China."

At the start of 2008, the chain added its first Chinese street food snack to its menu, the youtiao. The street snack menu was expanded in 2010 with the addition of the shaobing. In August 2010, KFC China announced its biggest product launch to date: the Rice Bowl, which heralded the arrival of rice as an accompaniment across the chain.

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Kungfu (restaurant)

Guangzhou Real Kungfu Catering Management Co., Ltd., trading as Kungfu (Chinese: 真功夫; pinyin: Zhēn Gōngfu "Real Kung Fu"), is a restaurant chain in China, headquartered in Tianhe District, Guangzhou. As of 2011 the company had over 300 locations in China. As of 2013 it had 479 restaurants. It sells bowls of rice with meats such as beef and pork.

In 2014 China Daily ranked Kungfu as No. 8 in its list of Top 10 Fast-food restaurants in China.

The company uses an image of Bruce Lee as a logo.

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Mr. Lee (restaurant)

Mr. Lee (Chinese: 李先生; pinyin: Lǐ Xiānsheng) is a popular fast-food chain in mainland China, specializing in beef noodle soup and other Chinese-style fast food. It is headquartered in Beijing. The chain was formerly called California Beef Noodle King U.S.A. (Chinese: 美国加州牛肉面大王; pinyin: Měiguó Jiāzhōu Niúròumiàn Dàwáng).

The first franchise was opened in Beijing in 1988 by a Californian Chinese-American, Li Beiqi (Chinese: 李北祺; pinyin: Lǐ Běiqí), also known as "Mr. Lee." Li's face can be seen as part of the company logo, in a style similar to KFC's Colonel Sanders logo. Today, there are several hundred franchises are present in many major north-eastern Chinese cities. Notable locations include Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin, Harbin, Changchun, Qingdao and Shenyang. Mr. Lee competes with foreign franchises such as KFC and McDonald's with lower prices and a greater appeal towards Chinese tastes.

Popular items on the menu include the original beef noodle soup, made from a unique recipe; and California Chicken, a cold dish dressed with red and green sauce. It also offers other Chinese staples such as wontons and dumplings. Despite the foreign branding, the recipes as well as the ingredients are all from within China and have nothing to do with California.

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Origus

Beijing Origus Food & Beverage Ltd., doing business as Origus Pizza Buffet (simplified Chinese: 好伦哥批萨自取; traditional Chinese: 好倫哥批薩自取; pinyin: Hǎolúngē Pīsà Zìqǔ) or Origus (好伦哥; 好倫哥; Hǎolúngē), is a Chinese Western-style buffet chain. It is headquartered in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Previously it was headquartered in Wangjiao Plaza in Wangjing Subdistrict of Chaoyang District.

It was founded in 1998, by Mu Ji. Foreign investment was used to start the company.

In February 2007 the company had locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Jinzhou. That month the company opened its first restaurant in Lanzhou.

By March 2007 prices at Origus per person were raised from 39 yuan to 39.99 yuan. Around that time some customers in Beijing reported getting only one fen (one hundredth of a yuan) in change.

As of 2014 it had over 100 restaurants; they were located in larger cities and Inner Mongolia. That year, MUS Roosevelt Capital Partners invested an undisclosed amount into Origus.

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Pacific Coffee Company

Pacific Coffee
太平洋咖啡

Pacific Coffee (formerly known as Pacific Coffee Company; abbv. "PCC") is a Pacific Northwest U.S.-style coffee shop group originating from Hong Kong, with a few outlets in China, Singapore and Malaysia. The group is owned by computer distributor Chevalier Pacific, formerly Chevalier iTech. It acquired the chain from founder Thomas Neir for HK$205 million in 2005.

In June 2010, China Resources Enterprise, Limited (CRE) and Chevalier have forged a partnership to further expand the Pacific Coffee business in the Chinese Mainland with CRE being a major shareholder and to have Pacific Coffee developed under the umbrella of CRE’s Retail Business Unit.

Apart from its stores, PCC also sells own-brand coffee beans and Jura brand coffee machines to distributors and corporate clients, such as banks, airline companies, clubs and hotels. Its coffee beans are sold in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore.

PCC was started by Thomas Neir of Seattle, who came to Hong Kong in 1992. Neir saw a lack of European-style coffee houses in his adopted city. The first PCC outlet opened in 1993 at the Bank of America Tower in Hong Kong's Central district. PCC's Seattle origins are shared with fellow coffee chain Starbucks; however, the latter did not open its first Hong Kong branch until May 2000.

In 2005, the PCC at The Peak was voted "Asia's top favourite wireless hotspot" in a survey of 1,996 people in 20 countries by Intel.

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Pala Hamburger

Pala Catering Management Co Ltd, doing business as Pala Hamburger (simplified Chinese: 派乐汉堡; traditional Chinese: 派樂漢堡; pinyin: Pàilè Hànbǎo), is a Chinese fast food chain headquartered in the Wuhan CBD ().

The first store opened in Wuhan in 1999. Ke Zhaoyan, the marketing manager, stated that Pala opened in smaller cities and towns because its food is cheaper compared to that of Western-owned companies. In 2012 the company had about 1,000 franchised stores and about 400 direct sale stores. That year Pala planned to open an additional 460 stores. The number of stores grew to 1,700 in 2012, and in 2013 to 1,850. In 2014 China Daily ranked Pala as No. 6 of the " Top 10 fast-food chains in China".

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Xiabu Xiabu

Xiabu Xiabu Catering Management Co., Ltd. or Xiabu Xiabu (Chinese: 呷哺呷哺; pinyin: Xiābǔ Xiābǔ) is a fast food hot pot restaurant chain in China. Its headquarters is in Daxing District, Beijing.

The company was established in 1998. As of 2012 there are over 300 Xiabu Xiabu restaurants in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin and in the provinces of Hebei, Jiangsu, and Liaoning.

As of 2008 the company used centralized kitchens, and one hot pot meal at Xiabu Xiabu had a cost of 27 renminbi or $4 U.S. dollars.

In November 2008 Xiabu Xiabu had 53 locations in Beijing. The company planned to have 60 locations by the end of that year. In 2008 Actis Capital paid $51 million U.S. dollars to acquire a majority stake of Xiabu Xiabu. Actis stated that in a three-year period it wished to increase the number of stores by three times the original number.

In 2012 Actis sold the company to global growth equity firm General Atlantic. Actis intended to be paid $150 million for its sale.

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Yonghe King

Yonghe King (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is a Chinese fast-food restaurant that specializes in noodles. The headquarters are on the fourth floor of Building B of the Rainbow Hongqiao Centre (莱茵虹桥中心) in Minhang District, Shanghai.

Yonghe Dawang opened its first restaurant in Shanghai on December 12, 1995. Today Yonghe has branches throughout China, with over 70 restaurants in major Chinese cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Jinan, and Suzhou. In 2004, Yonghe King merged with one of the largest fast-food chain in the Philippines, Jollibee, which is owned by Chinese Filipino Mr. Tony Tan Caktiong.

The original logo of the chain was that of a smiling face against a red background, which was strikingly similar to the Colonel Sanders logo used by KFC. The Associated Press stated that the former logo was "a smiling, grandfatherly Chinese man". In 2005 the chain changed its logo to that of a steaming bowl of soup.

Other Chinese restaurant chains also use the word "Yonghe" in their titles, including Yonghe Dou-jiang (Chinese word for Soy milk), a famous breakfast orientated Soy Milk chain from Taiwan.

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