28 November 2004

Chowking

For some reason, I've been getting google hits for Chowking, the Chinese fast food chain here in the Philippines. Finally I found a site with a backgrounder on the restaurant.

"FOR a long time, Robert Kuan, founder of Chowking, the popular Chinese fast food chain, the first of its kind in the country, was known to many as Mr. Chowking. He cast that label aside when he sold his business, lock, stock and barrel, to fast food giant Jollibee in November 1999. Why? 'Because the offer was good and it was time to let go,' he replies without hesitation..."