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KFC benefited from the economic boom in Japan during the 1980s, and grew to 1,000 outlets with annual sales of $1.2 billion by 1993. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] However, the rapid expansion of outlets saw franchisees competing for market shares with each other, and around 100 outlets closed down in the mid-1990s.
The statue following its 2009 recovery from the river. The Curse of the Colonel (Japanese: カーネルサンダースの呪い, romanisation: Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi) is a Japanese urban legend that holds that the ghost of the KFC founder, Colonel Sanders, placed a curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
In December 1974, KFC Japan began to promote fried chicken as a Christmas meal. [70] Eating KFC at Christmas time has become a "Traditional Christmas Eve Dinner" in Japan. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] As of 2013 [update] , Japan is the third-largest market for KFC after China and the United States with 1,200 outlets.
The KFC tradition dates back to 1970, when the first KFC opened in Japan, a KFC Japan spokesperson told BBC in 2016. The manager of that first restaurant, Takeshi Okawara, supposedly heard a few ...
The Japanese tradition of eating fried chicken on Christmas may be built on a lie. The man who helped make eating KFC at Christmas a Japanese tradition says the practice is built on a lie that he ...
By 1993, KFC in the Asia Pacific region accounted for 22 percent of all KFC sales. [80] John Cranor announced, "We're looking at almost unlimited opportunity for growth in Asia". [ 99 ] By 1993, KFC was the leading Western fast food chain in South Korea, China, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and was second to McDonald's in most other Asian ...
It was a chocolate biscuit that turned Masayuki Iwasa, a self-professed penny-pincher with a sweet tooth, into one of Japan's most scrupulous chroniclers of "shrinkflation".
KFC is the first international fast food chain in Albania. Austria: 1970–1975, [156] 2005 [88] 14 Vienna: Queensway Restaurants Ltd [88] AmRest [157] KFC first entered the country in 1970 but withdrew in 1975. [158] Returned in 2005. 11 outlets as of 2022, [159] with plans to expand to up to 50 the coming years. [157] Belarus: 2015 82 [160]?