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They had stores??
by jasonhansel 7y ago
They had stores??
- raegis 7y agoYes, Hannibal Lecter shopped there after he chopped his hand off.
- chrischen 7y agoInteresting you said this because I always thought this was actually an Asian brand having mostly only seen them in Japan and Korea. There's a trend of Asia reviving some old western brands, like 7-Eleven, Denny's, Yahoo, Mister Donut.
- wahern 7y ago7-Eleven has been a Japanese company for close to 30 years, and started opening stores in Japan long before that. If there's a trend, it long predates it, but my sense is that 7-Eleven never sold itself as American kitsch but was simply a business model that worked well elsewhere. It seems similar to KFC in that regard--far more KFCs overseas than in the U.S. as fried chicken has near universal appeal--though KFC and Colonel Sanders in particular is much more of an American cultural export. Chains like A&W began opening stores in Asia in the 1960s. And not just around American military bases--a franchise was started in Malaysia in 1963. In general I think the trend isn't one of revival but more that these brands were already global when their American market disappeared. But maybe chains like Denny's and Mister Donut are different stories.