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KFC outlet in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. KFC operates restaurants in several Asian countries. In Sri Lanka, KFC was launched in 1995 at Majestic City. There were 62 KFC restaurants in Sri Lanka as of April 2024. [19] It is currently operated by Cargills Ceylon PLC. In Singapore, the first KFC franchise was opened in 1977 along Somerset Road ...
17 outlets. [46] Hong Kong: 1973–1975, 1985–present [47] Birdland Ltd [47] 75 outlets. [3] KFC was the first American fast food chain to enter Hong Kong in 1973, with an outlet in Mei Foo Sun Chuen. [48] There were 11 outlets by mid-1974, but by September 1974 many outlets had closed. [49] The remaining 4 outlets were closed in February 1975.
KFC Corporation, [4] doing business as KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken), is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky , it is the world's second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's , with over 30,000 ...
KFC was one of the first fast-food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in Britain, Mexico, and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, KFC experienced mixed success domestically, as it went through a series of changes in corporate ownership with little or no experience in the restaurant business.
The first store opened in Dili in December 2013. Hong Kong: 1979: North Asia Strategic Holdings, Ltd. [45] 堡加敬 (1970s to early 1980s), 漢堡飽王 (1980s to 1990s), 漢堡王 (2006 to present) (in Chinese) First operated in Hong Kong (then a British colony) between the 1970s–1990s. India: 2014: Blue Foods (western India), Everstone ...
Its Hong Kong–based distribution business, Sims Trading, was sold to CITIC Pacific. In June 2002, the 61-store Woolworths chain in New Zealand acquired in 1990, was sold for US$337 million. In 2004, the Group's Hong Kong ice manufacturing business which began in 1918 was sold for US$107 million.
Three years earlier, KFC was established in mainland China. The first McDonald's in Shenzhen was supplied from Hong Kong from 1990 to 1992. By the time the first McDonald's in Beijing opened in 1992, mainland China had proper infrastructure to supply the restaurants. As of 2022, there are about 8,600 KFC outlets in more than 850 Chinese cities. [6]
In Hong Kong, although McDonald's and KFC are quite popular, three major local fast-food chains provide Hong Kong-style fast food, namely Café de Coral, Fairwood, and Maxim MX. Café de Coral alone serves more than 300,000 customers daily. [ 33 ]