Ichibanya

Ichibanya Co., Ltd.
株式会社壱番屋

Curry House CoCo Ichibanya
Type	Public
Industry	Foodservice
Founded	July 1, 1982 (1982-07-01)
Headquarters	Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
Number of locations	1,268 (July 2011) [1]
Area served	Japan Hawaii California China Taiwan South Korea Thailand Hong Kong
Key people	Toshiya Hamajima, president and representative director
Products	Curry rice Ankake Spaghetti
Revenue	¥38,043 million (May 2010)
Operating income	¥3,685 million (May 2010)
Net income	¥1,770 million (May 2010)
Total assets	¥28,922 million (May 2010)
Employees	775
Website	ichibanya.co.jp/english/index.html

Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋, kabushikigaisha ichiban'ya^?) (TYO: 7630) is a Japanese food services company based in Ichinomiya, Aichi.

CoCo Ichibanya chain

Ichibanya Co., Ltd. owns the top curry rice restaurant chain in Japan, Curry House CoCo Ichibanya or usually just CoCo Ichiban or CoCo Ichi. The chain has restaurants all over Japan and 46 restaurants overseas, including mainland China, Taiwan, Hawaii, South Korea, Thailand, Torrance, California, and Hong Kong. The chain includes a large number of franchise restaurants as well as directly owned restaurants. The Curry House chain is by far the company's largest business.

CoCo Ichibanya Curry House restaurant

Pasta de Coco

The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco, which sell a pasta dish which is a kind of spaghetti with starchy sauce known as Ankake spaghetti (あんかけスパゲッティ, ankake supagetti^?), which is one of the distinctive foods of the Nagoya metropolitan area.^[2][3]

See also

• Media related to CoCo Ichibanya at Wikimedia Commons

References

1. ^ "Company Profile". Ichibanya Co., Ltd.. http://www.ichibanya.co.jp/english/info/profile.html. Retrieved 24 December 2010. 
2. ^ "ICHIBANYA CO., LTD. (Public, TYO:7630)". Google, Inc.. http://www.google.com/finance?q=7630. Retrieved 24 December 2010. 
3. ^ "パスタでココ" (in Japanese). Ichibanya Co., Ltd.. http://www.ichibanya.co.jp/pasta/index.html. Retrieved 24 December 2010. 

External links

• CoCo Ichibanya's official web site
• Pasta de CoCo's official web site (Japanese)