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Chowking (Chinese: 超群; pinyin: chāoqún; lit. 'preeminent') is a Filipino fast food restaurant chain that serves Filipino Chinese cuisine. Founded in 1985, Chowking was acquired by Jollibee Foods Corporation in 2000. It is widely considered the country's most popular restaurant of Chinese-Filipino food and was once the second-largest ...
This is a list of notable restaurant chains in the Philippines. A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the United States) or franchising agreements. Typically, the restaurants within a chain are built to a standard ...
Chowking - Fast food restaurant that serves Chinese food, predominantly selling noodle soups, dim sum, and rice bowls with toppings [63] Mang Inasal - Fast food restaurant that specializes in Filipino barbecue [64] [63] Burger King Philippines - JFC is managing the operations of the American hamburger fast food chain in the Philippines [65] [63]
After learning of plans to remove him, Kuan resigned and started Chowking in 1985 on Henry Sy's advice. In a Filipino fast food industry dominated by Western-style joints, Chowking offered Filipino and Chinese cuisine. The restaurant started expanding in 1989 and became very successful, growing to half the size of market leader Jollibee.
This is a list of countries with Jollibee franchises. This list only includes the Jollibee fast food chain brand of Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) and excludes other brands owned by the company. As of November 2024, Jollibee operates over 1,300 stores in the Philippines and 400 elsewhere.
Jollibee is a Filipino chain of fast food restaurants owned by Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) which serves as its flagship brand. Established in 1978 by Tony Tan Caktiong, it is the Philippines' top fast food restaurant [3] and is among the world's fastest growing restaurants, [4] expanding its international presence from 2014 to 2024 almost sixfold. [5]
City Commercial Center, more popularly known as "C3" or "C3 Mall", is a government-owned and controlled mixed-use building in Pagadian City, Philippines. [1] The building features an enclosed, air-conditioned mall and office spaces. Robinsons Supermarket occupies the entire lower ground floor.
Tan Caktiong was born on January 5, 1953 in the then-undivided province of Davao (in now Davao del Sur) to Chinese immigrant parents from Fujian. [6] His father worked in a restaurant in China and as a cook in a Buddhist monastery in Manila before setting up his restaurant in Davao City. [7]