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Fenrin
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There are COCO's in Japan?? Does Coco's COME from Japan???
I know it's not unusual for American based restaurants to expand to foreign countries but Coco's strikes me as an odd choice to go international.
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smokeyjoey8
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| Fenrin wrote: | | There are COCO's in Japan?? Does Coco's COME from Japan???
I know it's not unusual for American based restaurants to expand to foreign countries but Coco's strikes me as an odd choice to go international. |
Coco's started in America, California to be exact. After a few changes of ownership over the years, the Catalina Restaurant Group that owned Coco's and Carrows was bought by Zensho, a Japanese company that operates a bunch of different restaurants. Zensho also operates El Torito in Japan, along with Bob's Big Boy Japan, and formerly Wendy's. Zensho recently sold off the Catalina Restaurant Group, though. They seem to still operate the Japan restaurants though.
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Fenrin
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| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:38 am |
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| smokeyjoey8 wrote: | | Fenrin wrote: | | There are COCO's in Japan?? Does Coco's COME from Japan???
I know it's not unusual for American based restaurants to expand to foreign countries but Coco's strikes me as an odd choice to go international. |
Coco's started in America, California to be exact. After a few changes of ownership over the years, the Catalina Restaurant Group that owned Coco's and Carrows was bought by Zensho, a Japanese company that operates a bunch of different restaurants. Zensho also operates El Torito in Japan, along with Bob's Big Boy Japan, and formerly Wendy's. Zensho recently sold off the Catalina Restaurant Group, though. They seem to still operate the Japan restaurants though. |
El Torito too? That's a very interesting mix of restaurants, not ones I'd consider profitable in Japan. They must have changed them quite a bit to fit the japanese lifestyle. Although, if anime is anything to go by, family restaurants like cocos seem to have found a niche in japan where as in america they are starting to die out.
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enurtsol
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| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:41 am |
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| Fenrin wrote: | |
They must have changed them quite a bit to fit the japanese lifestyle. Although, if anime is anything to go by, family restaurants like cocos seem to have found a niche in japan where as in america they are starting to die out. |
Check the story of Anna Miller's in Japan:
- The American diner, with its big pie racks, once captured the country's imagintion. Anna Miller's, originally a Hawaiian chain, spread through Tokyo during the late 1970s and early 80s.
As previously posted, the restaurant was a "proto-maid cafe", existing before there was such a thing. It quickly became an otaku hangout. The skirts were short, and diehard regulars would hang out in Anna Miller's hoping to catch glimpses of underwear.
Yet, even with that nerd cred, Anna Miller's begin closing one by one en masse after the turn of the century. By the time maid cafes, which were no doubt inspired by the chain, begin hitting big in 2003 and 2004, around sixteen Anna Miller's had shutdown.
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Jose Cruz
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| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:32 am |
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How popular is Love Live in Japan?
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