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Japan’s largest curry rice chain, Coco Ichibanya, will open its first Bay Area store in Cupertino in mid-December, targeting the Northern California market with a variety of side dishes and highly customized options.
Japan The largest curry rice chain CoCo Ichibanya is about to launchbay area The first store will be opened in Cupertino.
Kouko Ichibanya will open in Cupertino, South Bay in mid-December, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The approximately 50-seat restaurant in the city center will serve diners its signature rich curry rice with side dishes including chicken steak, beef stew, garlic prawns, spinach and cheese.
CoCo Ichibanya opened its first restaurant in the suburbs of Nagoya, Japan in 1978 and has now grown into a chain catering company with over 1,000 branches worldwide. It is currently in the southCalifornia There are already branches, including one in Texas, but not Northern California.
Coco Ichibanya’s addition to the Northern California market reflects the rapid growth of Japanese specialty restaurant chains in the South Bay area: Hannosuke, which specializes in tempura rice bowls, opened its first independent restaurant in the United States in San Jose this fall. ; Tsujita, a Japanese tsukemen and ramen chain brand headquartered in Tokyo, had opened a store in the same shopping mall more than a year earlier; Kajiken, famous for its Japanese fried noodles, also opened a store in Westfield in October, with a branch opening in the Valley Fair Shopping Centre.
Mr. Edward Chan (transliteration), a Chinese partner of Coco Ichibanya in Cupertino, said that he ate Coco Ichibanya’s curry rice for the first time during a trip to Japan. About three years ago, he contacted the Japanese head office and asked if he could bring Coco Ichibanya to the Bay Area, and received a positive reply.
Mr. Chen’s business partner, Charles Kusuma, said that he discovered that Curry House, a Japanese curry shop that had been operating for a long time in Cupertino, had closed, so he thought Cupertino was a good place to open a new curry shop. After consideration, they decided to open CoCo Ichibanwu near Main Street Cupertino, which is also very close to the Apple headquarters.
Kusuma, who is responsible for day-to-day operations, said the Cupertino location will have basically the same menu as the Southern California location, but they may add some specialties later.
Kusuma said: “We will provide a lot of cuisine options, and customers can mix and match freely. They can mix up to 45 types.”
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Coco Ichibanya’s first Bay Area store will be located in Cupertino, South Bay and is expected to open in mid-December. The store is located in the center of the city, close to Main Street Cupertino and Apple’s headquarters.
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The new store mainly serves the signature rich curry rice, with side dishes including chicken steak, stewed beef, garlic prawns, spinach and cheese etc. Customers can mix it freely, with 45 flavors available.
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The partners said long-running local Japanese curry shop Curry House has closed, and demand for Japanese food is high in the South Bay, so they believe Cupertino is a good place to introduce a new curry brand.
