Café de Coral (Restaurant)

Infobox_Company
company_name = Café de Coral Holdings, Ltd.
company_
slogan = “All Happy Together"
company_type = Publicly Traded sehk|0341
foundation = Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (1968)
location = Shatin, Hong Kong
key_people = Michael Chan, Chairman
num_employees = 12,000+ (July 2006)
industry = Foodservice
products = Fast food, Casual Dining
revenue = HKD 3.89 billion (2007)
homepage = [http://www.cafedecoral.com/ http://www.cafedecoral.com/]

Café de Coral (zh-tp|t=大家樂|p=dà jiā lè) sehk|0341 is a fast food franchise based in Hong Kong owned by the Café de Coral group. The chain is one of the largest and most pouplar fast food chains in Hong Kong with more than 120 restaurants in operation (as of March 2004). It was established in 1968 and today caters to about 300,000 people on an average day.

In February 2006, it announced that it would spend approximately HK$100 million in introducing its new 4G design of its restaurants. This would renovate its restaurants to include plasma televisions, chromatic mirrors, and Italian marble and leather upholstery. [cite web| url=http://www.cafedecoral.com/web/show/show.jsp?pid=3&type1=1&cnid1=2808&rhtID1=3&gf1=1 | title=Café de Coral’s Introduction of 4G Design Concept Creates a New Era in Hong Kong’s Fast Food Industry | accessdate= 2007-04-14
date= 2006-02-05]

Cuisine

The food is typically Chinese with some Western dishes. The restaurant only offers breakfast during the morning (lunch during the noon hours, tea time meals in the afternoon and so on) and as the day progress, its menu changes to reflect the appropriate meals being sold at that given time of the day. In other words, one is not able to order breakfast meals during dinner time. All plates, cups, and bowls are made from melamine resin as they are all washed and reused.

Locations

The restaurant operates in all urban and town areas of Hong Kong. In commercial districts, there might be three to four in an area. In new towns, branches often opened in major shopping centres, including those of public housing estates. In Mainland China, Cafe de Coral has spread to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, Macau, Foshan, and is quickly moving to other cities.

ee also

* Café de Coral
* Cuisine of Hong Kong
* Fairwood (restaurant)
* Maxim's MX

References

External links

* [http://www.cafedecoral.com/web/show/show.jsp?ppid=10 Official website]
* [http://www.cafedecoralfastfood.com Restaurant Corporate website]
* [http://www.cafedecoralcn.com Mainland China Official website]
* Source: Pinyin translated with [http://www.cozychinese.com/convert/ CozyChinese.COM]