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Café de Coral
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This article is about Café de Coral fast food company. For Café de Coral fast food franchise, see Café de Coral (restaurant).
Café de Coral Holdings, Ltd.

Type
Publicly traded SEHK: 0341
Industry
Foodservice
Founded
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (1968)
Headquarters
Shatin, Hong Kong
Key people
Michael Chan, Chairman
Products
Fast food
Casual dining
Revenue
HK$5.33 billion (2011)
Employees
15,000+ (2010)
Website
www.cafedecoral.com
Café de Coral (Chinese: 大家樂; Cantonese Yale: daai6 gaa1 lok6, SEHK: 0341, Grey Market: CFCGY) is a fast food restaurant group which owns and operates fast food chains and restaurants including Café de Coral, The Spaghetti House, Manchu Wok, Oliver 's Super Sandwiches, Ah Yee Leng Tong, and others.
Founded in 1968, the Café de Coral group opened its first Café de Coral restaurant in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong in 1969. Since then, the group has grown to operate over 580 separate outlets across its brands all over the world. It is the largest Chinese fast food restaurant group in Hong Kong and in the world. In Hong Kong alone, it caters to over 300,000 people on an average day.[1]
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1 History
1.1 Founding
1.2 Acquisitions and expansion
2 Brands
2.1 Café de Coral
2.2 The Spaghetti House
2.3 Ah Yee Leng Tong
2.4 Bravo le Café
2.5 Super Super Congee & Noodles
3 Wage controversy
3.1 Scientific management
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
Founding[edit]
The Cafe de Coral Group was incorporated in 1968 and opened its first Café de Coral restaurant in Causeway Bay in September 1969.[2] The chain gradually expanded over the next decade. In 1977, it started promoting its restaurants through TV commercials. In 1979, it established its first food processing plant in a move to lower costs and ensure consistency.[3] In 1986, the Café de Coral Group went public. In 1988, it opened its



References: 12. Jump up ^ Olsen, Robert (2010-11-08). "Penny-Pinching Tycoon Backs Down After Public Backlash". Forbes.  External links[edit]

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