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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKFC shows how to change Myanmar's eating habits
YANGON -- For international restaurant chains, the race is on to get into Myanmar. Following the recent opening of a KFC restaurant, Japanese trading house Sojitz Group announced a partnership with a Myanmar company to provide logistics for refrigerated deliveries of temperature-sensitive foods.
A crowd gathers outside Myanmar's first KFC, in Yangon. Myanmar's first KFC opened July 7 in the Yangon commercial hub of Bogyoke Aung San Market. A long line quickly snaked out the door, and it has yet to disappear. Inside, workers in black shirts and red hats tear around the 240-seat eatery. "When I travel to Bangkok for business," Thein Htut, a Yangon-based consultant, said with a big smile, "I always go to KFC restaurants there. Now I can go to one near my office."
The Yangon KFC offers a standard set -- two pieces of fried chicken, french fries and a drink -- for 3,500 kyat ($3). It also does a little fusion, using its chicken in a traditional curry and rice dish that goes for 2,000 kyat. This is on the expensive side. Yangon residents spend an average 1,000 kyat to 1,500 kyat for lunch.
Yoma Strategic Holdings, a real estate development conglomerate, obtained its KFC franchise license from Yum Brands of the US It plans to open several more KFCs in Myanmar this year.
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KFC shows how to change Myanmar's eating habits (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Jul 2015
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underpants
(182,803 posts)1. Yes, it is s#|t but it comes in a bucket!
A bucket full of s#|t. Isn't that great?
DinahMoeHum
(21,788 posts)2. Ick.
n/t
villager
(26,001 posts)3. More dead chickens! More endless streams of chicken shit in our waterways!
Ain't fast food grand?
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)4. “It is internationally famous, so I think it must be healthy.”
Poor man. Doesn't know a good marketing strategy can sell anything.
Link: http://qz.com/442418/residents-queued-for-hours-to-eat-at-myanmars-first-kfc-outlet/
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)5. soon they will be fat like Americans