Ajisen Ramen (Japanese: ??????, Chinese: ????/????) is a Japan-based chain of fast food restaurants selling Japanese ramen noodle soup dishes. The company's logo, featuring artwork of a little girl named Chii-chan, can be found on their stores and products. Outside of Japan, Ajisen Ramen has outlets in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Marianas, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. There are over 700 Ajisen Ramen restaurants.
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History
- 1968 - Pork bone white soup based Tonkotsu ramen from Kurume, Fukuoka was modified with garlic flavour by a Hakka person from Meinong, Taiwan in Kumamoto, Japan. He is the founder Takaharu Shigemitsu (Japanese: ????), or original name Liu Tan Hsiang (Chinese: ???).
- 1972 - Shigemitsu Industry Co., Ltd. was incorporated and a noodle and soup factory was established. Franchising was started by the company.
- 1994 - The first oversea joint venture business was started at Taipei, Taiwan. It ended three years later without success.
- 1996 - With the death of Takaharu Shigemitsu, his son Katsuaki Shigemitsu took over the business. Poon Wai (Chinese: ??) opened the first store in Hong Kong under license of Ajisen Ramen.
- 2007 - Ajisen Ramen (China) Ltd. was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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Locations
Japan
- Hokkaido
- Tohoku - Aomori Prefecture
- Kanto - Ibaraki Prefecture
- Chubu - Shizuoka Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Nagoya, Gifu Prefecture
- Kansai - Osaka Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture
- Chugoku-Shikoku - Hiroshima Prefecture, Kochi Prefecture, Ehime Prefecture
- Kyushu - Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture
- Kumamoto Prefecture - about 70 stores
- Okinawa Prefecture
Hong Kong
There are several locations in Hong Kong, with one of them being at the Hong Kong International Airport.
China
Since its inception, Ajisen Ramen has made significant headway into the Chinese market, especially in the metropolis of Shanghai, where it has 132 locations. There are a total of 590 Ajisen restaurants in the China region as of August 2011. Those expansion of stores were started by present CEO of Ajisen Ramen (China) Ltd. (SEHK: 0538), Poon Wai (??) from Hong Kong in 1996.
The current president of the Hong Kong-listed Ajisen China Holdings is businesswoman Poon Wai. The company's executive directors were Poon Wai, her brother Jason Poon Ka Man (???), and Yin Yi Bing (???). Yan resigned on 18 July 2013.
In 2011 the Chinese company was fined 200,000 yuan for misrepresenting the nutritional content of its soup.
United States
There are numbers of locations in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the first Ajisen Ramen restaurant opened in San Diego on November 2016.
Hiring controversy
The company announced the appointment of Joseph Lau Si-sing (???) as chief operating officer on 18 July 2013. Lau left the company "by mutual consent" in late September, five days after corporate governance activist David Webb criticised his appointment. Webb pointed out that the company had failed to disclose that Lau, former managing director of McDonald's (Hong Kong), was convicted in April 2009 of bribery and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Later, Webb blogged that Lau did not graduate from Caltech as was claimed in the company's appointment announcement. Lau's prison term expired just three days before Ajisen first announced his appointment. The company said the errors were "mainly caused by insufficient communication between Lau and the staff of our human resources department and translation error".
See also
- Aji Ichiban
- List of noodle restaurants
- Ramen shop
References
External links
- Ajisen Ramen Japan
- Ajisen Ramen Taiwan
- Ajisen Ramen Hong Kong
- Ajisen Ramen China
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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