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Company type | Public |
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TYO:7630 | |
Industry | Foodservice |
Founded | January 1978; 47 years ago (1978-01)[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 |
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Number of employees | 775 |
Website | www www ichibanyaindia ichibanya www |
Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋,Kabushiki gaisha Ichiban'ya) is a Japanese food services company based inIchinomiya, Aichi.[3]
ICHIBANYA Co., Ltd. owns the topcurry rice restaurant chain inJapan,Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA or usually justCoCo ICHIBAN orCoCo 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, theUnited Kingdom, thePhilippines,Japan andIndia.[4][5] The chain used to have an outlet inMalaysia, however, due to lack of popularity and poor business, Ichibanya recently[when?] 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)
The company has a vegetarian menu consisting of plant-based curry and two outlets offering halal option in Akihabara and Shinjuku.
The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco.[10] It sells a pasta dish which is a kind ofspaghetti 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 theNagoya metropolitan area.[11][12]