Ichibanya

Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋, Kabushiki gaisha Ichiban'ya) 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 owns both direct and franchise restaurants in a total of thirteen countries: United States, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Japan and India. The chain used to have an outlet in Malaysia, however, due to lack of popularity and poor business, Ichibanya recently shut down the outlet. The Curry House chain is by far the company's largest business.

• Japan: 1,304 branches

Current International Locations (Total: 175)

• China: 46
• Taiwan: 24
• Hong Kong: 9
• South Korea: 36
• Thailand: 27
• Philippines: 14
• United States (Hawaii, California, Texas): 11
• Indonesia: 6
• Singapore: 4
• Vietnam: 2
• United Kingdom: 2
• India: 2

Former International Location (Total: 1)

• Malaysia: 1

Halal and vegetarian

The company has a vegetarian menu consisting of plant-based curry and two outlets offering halal option in Akihabara and Shinjuku.

Pasta de Coco

The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco. It sells 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). This dish is one of the distinctive foods of the Nagoya metropolitan area.

References

External links

• CoCo ICHIBANYA's official web site
• CoCo ICHIBANYA USA's official web site