| Ichibanya Co., Ltd. 株式会社壱番屋 | |
| Type: | Public |
| Foundation: | [1] |
| Location City: | Ichinomiya, Aichi |
| Location Country: | Japan |
| 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 |
| Industry: | Foodservice |
| Products: | Curry rice Ankake Spaghetti |
| Revenue: | ¥48.29 billion (2023) |
| Operating Income: | ¥3.61 billion (2023) |
| Net Income: | ¥2.54 billion (2023) |
| Assets: | ¥42.43 billion (2023) |
| Num Employees: | 775 |
| Homepage: | |
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 ICHIBAN or CoCo 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 . This dish is one of the distinctive foods of the Nagoya metropolitan area.[10] [11]