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QFI was a San Francisco supermarket chain founded in the late 1940s by John Musso. Originally, some QFI locations were leased, resulting in some stores being co-named with others (such as Lick Super Market). By the 1970s, when Musso's son Leo took over, all QFI stores were wholly owned and operated.
George Chen is an entrepreneur, formerly involved in several local landmark restaurants such as Betelnut, Xanadu, and Shanghai 1930, as an effort to "educate" San Francisco on "what real Chinese cuisine is". [1] China Live was inspired by, and has been compared to, Eataly, a chain of similar establishments based on Italian food. [1]
1936 Bon Voyage Banquet for Mr & Mrs Joe Shoong & family. As a strategy for keeping prices low, Shoong had most of the stores’ merchandise manufactured in a company-owned factory in San Francisco's Chinatown rather than importing goods from outside of the U.S. [8] In an interview for the Oakland Tribune in 1924, Shoong explained, “From manufacturer direct to the consumer, is the plan ...
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Look Tin Eli (left) and Look Poong-San, largest stockholder of Canton Bank [1]. Look Tin Eli (1870–1919) (Chinese: 陸潤卿, Lù Rùnqīng; also Luk Tin-Sun, [2] Look Tin Sing [3]: 28 ) was a Chinese-American businessman, born in Mendocino, California, who achieved much success in San Francisco's Chinatown, especially after the 1906 earthquake.
The second Market Street Chinatown grew to about 1,400 people by 1876. [2] [8] The 1880 census recorded only 614 residents, but researchers believe that this was a severe undercount typical of minority populations at the time. [7] By 1884, it occupied most of the block along Market Plaza between San Fernando
Ai Hoa Supermarket – formerly a Chinese-Vietnamese-American chain in southern California; now operates one store in South El Monte [2] Asian Food Center (New Jersey) Arirang Market - Korean chain from Southern California; ASSI Plaza, Korean-American multinational supermarket chain (Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania) CAM Asian Market (Ohio)
No, not the one in San Francisco, the one in Fresno. Just west of Chukchansi Park and the railroad tracks sits downtown’s less well known sister, Chinatown, a neighborhood born in the 1870s.