Ichibanya Co., Ltd.
株式会社壱番屋
Company type
Industry
Founded
January 1978; 46 years ago (1978-01)[1]
Headquarters
Number of locations
1,476 (January 2019)[2]
Area served
Japan
United States
China
Taiwan
South Korea
Thailand
Malaysia
Hong Kong
Singapore
Philippines
Indonesia
India
Vietnam
United Kingdom
Key people
Toshiya Hamajima, president and representative director
Products
Curry rice
Ankake Spaghetti
Revenue
¥48.29 billion (2023)
¥3.61 billion (2023)
¥2.54 billion (2023)
¥42.43 billion (2023)
Number of employees
775
Website
www
www
ichibanyaindia
ichibanya
www
Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋, Kabushiki gaisha Ichiban'ya) is a Japanese food services company based in Ichinomiya, Aichi.[3]
ICHIBANYA Co., Ltd. owns the top curry rice restaurant chain in Japan, Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA or usually just CoCo ICHIBANorCoCo 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.[4][5] 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.
Current International Locations (Total: 175)
Former International Location (Total: 1)
The company has a vegetarian menu consisting of plant-based curry and two outlets offering halal option in Akihabara and Shinjuku.
The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco.[9] 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.[10][11]
Baked goods/sandwich
Multi-brand company
Baked goods/sandwiches/tacos
Chinese/Taiwanese
Japanese
Former chains
International
National