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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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".
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. [1]
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 ...