Jollibee should have a restaurant in the Seattle and Vancouver areas. Lots of Filipinos there.



http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstor...anding-overseas

MANILA, Philippines - Local fastfood giant is ramping up its overseas expansion to fuel future growth despite the current global economic slump, aiming to raise the share of offshore business to 50 percent of the total in about eight years.

JFC’s international strategy is two-fold: Bring the Jollibee, Chowking and Red Ribbon brands to markets with heavy concentration of overseas Filipinos and expand in fast-growing markets by acquiring homegrown brands—like in mainland China—and expanding them.

“Fastfood is quite resilient [to global slump]. Therefore, we just have to make sure we focus on value and product taste. Those are the key. Customers will always be eating out; the challenge is: Can you get them or not?” JFC president Tony Tan Caktiong said in a briefing after the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting last Friday.

“Of course, if the economy is in recession, we also slow down, but we’re still doing well,” he said.

Later this year, the group will open one Jollibee and another Chowking store in Qatar as part of its expansion in the Middle East. The group has 10 Chowking stores in Dubai.

In about eight years from now, JFC’s business may be evenly split between domestic and international as far as sales are concerned, said company chief finance officer Ysmael Baysa.

Five years ago, the overseas business contributed only 3 percent of total sales. As of last year, the share has gone up to 13 percent and further to 16 percent as of the first quarter of this year.

“It’s going there,” Baysa said, noting that starting next year, JFC may start opening more stores overseas than in the Philippines. “If you grow organically, then acquire other business abroad, the combination of that will drive growth.”

In 2008, JFC opened 186 new stores, the most it has launched in a single year. Of the new store additions, 76 or 41 percent were outside the Philippines—45 in China (Yonghe King), 21 in the United States and 10 in other countries.

The JFC group has 1,821 stores, of which 306 are overseas. The flagship Jollibee brand, for instance, has 26 stores in the US and nine in Vietnam. Chowking has 17 in the US.

But the biggest overseas expansion so far is in China, where JFC had acquired two restaurant chains. It also signed a joint-venture agreement for a 70-percent share in Lao Dong, a 9-branch restaurant chain in Taiwan.

Last year, it acquired Hong Zhuang Yuan, a restaurant chain with congee as its core product with 38 stores located mostly in Beijing.

They're planning on opening some locations in Houston.

I love their fried chicken.

They should adjust a little bit to the "taste" of the locals of the countries they're expanding to.

Filipino "taste" is so sharp to American standards.

I hope they expand to Central Jersey. American chains over here don't carry rice in their menu. I end up going to Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean because of that fu-kn rice I couldn't do without.

There's lots of Pinoys here, they wouldn't run out of customers, even Chinese stores carry Pinoy food like pritong daing na bangus and galunggong.

There's a Jollibee in NY.

Yum TLC HMMM.. But the Burger Steak with Rice is even better.

is there jollibe in china already?

^^ Just Hong Kong.

Jollibee is actually the number 1 fastfood chain in Brunei.

$hitcyeah

They must have secretly added pork on those burgers.

Hope people would never watch the Jollibee scandal

woohoo chicken joy for everyone

Spanish Caribbean Restaurants, parts of NJ have plenty such restaurants, have rice in there dishes. Mexican restaurants sometimes might have rice but they sometimes mix there rice with tomato sauce.

They cook rice differently. They put salt and oil in it. Others add color to it. Some add different kinds of seasoning to it.
I want it just plain. No salt or oil. If rice is flavored, it will compete with and mask the taste of the "ulam".

Rice should be "neutral". The different kinds of "ulam" will be the ones to give taste to the rice as you put them in your mouth.

Pinoys carry rice and different "ulams" on their plates "unmixed". Using a spoon, they get a portion of "ulam", put it on top of rice, then shovel it to the mouth.

Other people's eating habits are different. They don't eat this way. So they prefer an already flavored rice.

dude filipinos luv their food sweet...do u know how much sugar their is in the milk here???

how will non-filipinos react to the spaghetti with hot dogs?

lol.. they think its dope. i hate it.

i been to the one in las vegas, i like their meatballs good stuff

lol tha one in seafood city? thats tha filipino kicc it spot.

i can't believe you. how could you man? do you even add sugar to your spaghetti sauce?

They're going to make 500 locations in the South US.

They should also try expanding to Africa and South America. Maybe some people there also enjoy sweet Hamburgers

500 locations? Are they crazy? Mc Donalds I think is having problems now that Taco Bell has taken much of the customers.

Complete bull$hit, where's your source?

I thought Chef Boyardee already made this. I don't like the taste of hot dog spaghetti myself, but the kind I ate had nothing to do with Jollibee or the Philippines.

I like dried mango product from the Phillipines.

It's a little spicy, tangy, sour, and fresh.

You know the type ?

thanks for reminding them. seriously pointless remark and fu-king carbs.

The taste is different. Actually Jollibee's spaghetti can't match the spaghetti made by local restaurants in the Philippines. Jollibee makes them taste like there's preservative in it. Even home-made spaghetti in the Philippines is way better than Jollibee's. I wonder if they put something in it to preserve it since they ship, they store, they refrigerate.....takes lots of fukn time before it reaches your mouth.

The one they sell at Costco is good. It's just the right softness. Not too soft nor hard.
That's the regular "Carabao Mango". Most people like the aroma of that specie even at first encounter.

But the "Wani" specie has a very strong aroma which might be offensive at first, but may be difficult to forget once you get to like it.
Dried Mango made from it is heaven.

These guys should open a store in Toronto

Filipinos has good taste and can make good food. But Pinoys would generally be employees rather than open a business.

The whole world will be in trouble if these Pinoy nurses, doctors, engineers, seaman, nannies and maids suddenly become storeowners.

God Jolibee is awful. They're beef burgers taste like pork. Just awful. They only thing I found edible there was their fried chicken. But I don't know if it's just me, but every goddamn fu-king fast food chain in the philippines had exactly the same kind of fried chicken. Whatever happened to hot sauce? Or maybe they should sugar coat the fried chicken, everything there is already sweet.



Yeah tear down that fake Jolibee open shop right on Bathurst and Wilson. It'll be the new trendy spot for all the yayas to go.



Co-sign, I wish I could see more filipino owned business communities.