SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – CreateTrip, a platform catering to inbound travelers in South Korea, announced on February 21 that fried chicken emerged as the most popular menu item among foreign tourists visiting Korea last year, based on an analysis of dining transaction data. According to CreateTrip, fried chicken led the transaction count among [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A fried chicken franchise, bhc chicken, has been under fire for raising prices of its menu items, while changing part of its chicken ingredients to cheaper ones from Brazil, according to a consumer advocacy group Monday. The franchise had used chicken produced in South Korea but decided to change [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kyochon 1991, one of South Korea’s major fried chicken franchises, opened its first store in Taiwan on Thursday as part of its efforts to expand its global business, its operator said. The store at Banqiao Global Store in New Taipei City will serve its popular menu, as well as [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Papa John’s Korea has launched an American style fried chicken brand in South Korea as part of its plan to break into the country’s competitive market, company officials said Monday. Mama Chicken opened its first store in the Mapo district in western Seoul on Friday, according to the officials [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Bhc Group said Thursday it has opened its first bhc chicken store in Singapore as part of its efforts to break into the Southeast Asian market. The store opened at a shopping complex in Marina Square located on Marina Bay, a popular tourist spot, on Wednesday. The store plans [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean fried chicken franchise Genesis BBQ Co. said Monday it has recently opened its first shop in Florida as part of efforts to tap deeper into the American market. The shop has opened in Tampa, one of the most populous areas in the southeastern U.S. state. The Tampa [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Bhc Group said Monday it has opened its first bhc chicken restaurant in North America as part of the overseas expansion of South Korea’s largest chicken franchise by sales. The new restaurant, located on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, will be directly operated by the company and be used [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean fried chicken franchises saw their sales rise during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar last fall despite an industry-wide slump for restaurants, data showed Monday. According to a report from the state-run Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corp., the total revenue of the nation’s restaurant businesses amounted to 11.1 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Fried chicken franchises saw their sales spike on the day of South Korea’s first football match at the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Kyochon F&B reported a 110-percent sales increase at all stores that day compared to the week prior. Genesis BBQ also reported a 170-percent sales increase from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s second-largest chicken franchise by sales, bhc Group, said Tuesday it will open its third store in Malaysia next month as part of its strategy to expand into Southeast Asia. The new restaurant, which is set to open in a shopping complex located inside the capital of Kuala [...]