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Japan is the third-largest market for KFC after China and the United States with 1,165 outlets as of December 2014. [1] In Japan, 70 percent of sales are takeout, with customers tending to buy fried chicken for parties and other special occasions and eating it as a side dish.
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 ...
Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Ltd. [224] Present from 1980 until 2004, but since closed. Returned in 2017 with the first store opened at the main railway station in Geneva on December 5, 2017. Ukraine: 2012 [225] 60 Kyiv: Global Restaurant Group [226] In 1999–2006 the chain was working with Russian ownership under the name Rostic's.
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, Japan is the third-largest market for KFC after China and the United States with 1,200 outlets. [73]
KFC dominates the season, with 3.6 million families in Japan making advance reservations for bespoke Christmas chicken.
In Japan, it's recommended to pre-order Christmas chicken, since the wait at KFC branches can be more than two hours on Dec. 25. Related: Fast-Food Menu Items You'll Only Find Abroad Firn/istockphoto
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.
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 ...