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Current number of outlets (date of source) Notes 1 Philippines June 1978: Cubao, Quezon City: 1,151 (February 2024) [5] Jollibee has 8 outlets in Metro Manila at the time of its incorporation. It credits the Cubao branch as its first outlet. The first ever Jollibee branch was in Cubao, Quezon City which opened in 1975 as a Magnolia Ice cream ...
Jollibee Foods Corporation: Max's Restaurant: Casual dining: 1945: Max's Group: McDonald's: Fast food: 1981 [12] Golden Arches Development Corporation: American fast food chain. Master franchise in the Philippines is owned by a local company associated with George Yang. [13] Orange Brutus Fast Food: 1980 Brutus Food Systems Inc.
Jollibee is a Filipino chain of fast food restaurants owned by Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) which serves as its flagship brand. Established in 1978 by Tony Tan Caktiong, it is the Philippines' top fast food restaurant [3] and is among the world's fastest growing restaurants, [4] expanding its international presence from 2014 to 2024 almost sixfold. [5]
In 2011, JFC opened 260 new stores, of which 167 were in the Philippines led by Mang Inasal (86) and Jollibee (40). This brought the company's total number of stores to 2,001 as of the end of December 2011. The same year, Jollibee closed Manong Pepe foodchain in favor of Mang Inasal, [18] and sold Délifrance to CaféFrance. [19]
McDonald's Philippines, known locally and colloquially and shortened as McDo [3] (), is the master franchise of the multinational fast food chain McDonald's in the Philippines. The master franchise is held by the Golden Arches Development Corporation , a subsidiary of Alliance Global Group .
Tan Caktiong was born on January 5, 1953 in the then-undivided province of Davao (in now Davao del Sur) to Chinese immigrant parents from Fujian. [6] His father worked in a restaurant in China and as a cook in a Buddhist monastery in Manila before setting up his restaurant in Davao City. [7]
Then, in 2006, Jollibee bought out the remaining shares of its partners in Greenwich for ₱384 million, giving rise to a new company known as the Greenwich Pizza Corporation. [3] The franchise experienced rapid expansion from the original 50 stores in 1994 to over 240 stores with an annual revenue of over ₱4 billion in 2005.
[b] The Wall Street Journal called it the Philippines' most successful Chinese food chain. [14] In a televised interview, Kuan said that he sold Chowking to Jollibee because "the offer was good and it was time to let go". [15] In the 1990s, Chowking held the naming rights to Chowking Fastfood Kings, a Philippine Basketball League (PBL) team. [16]