Kungfu (catering chain)

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Guangzhou Real Kungfu Catering Management Company, Limited
真 功夫 全球 华人 餐饮 连锁

logo
legal form Limited (Ltd.)
( Aktiengesellschaft )
founding 1994 - "168 Dessert House"
( 168 甜品 屋 )
2004 - "Real Kungfu"
( 真 功夫 )
Seat Nansha District, Guangzhou PRC
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
management Pān Yǔhǎi ( President , CEO )
潘宇海
Chen Min (Deputy CEO )
陈敏
Number of employees 16,000 (as of 2019)
Branch Fast food gastronomy
Website www.zkungfu.cn

Kungfu restaurant chain, Beijing South Railway Station 2018

Kungfu ( Chinese  真 功夫 , Pinyin Zhēn Gōngfu , English Real Kungfu ), officially Guangzhou Real Kungfu Catering Management Co., Ltd. ( 真功夫全球華人餐飲連鎖  /  真功夫全球华人餐饮连锁 ), is a private fast food - restaurant chain with original headquarters in Dongguan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong . This particular form of "private company" is called " Mínqǐ " ( 民企 , short from 民營 企業  /  民营 企业 , English civilian-run enterprise ) in China . The dishes on offer are traditionally prepared by steaming Chinese cuisine with rice ( fàn , 飯  /  饭 ), meat ( ròu , 肉 ), soup ( tāng , 湯  /  汤 ) and fresh vegetables ( shūcài , 蔬菜 ) as a side dish. For example, ribs ( páigǔ , 排骨 , English spare ribs ) are often used in dishes as a meat accompaniment. The chain's menus are all bilingual. Since the beginning of the franchising , the restaurant chain has had a stencil as a company logo that is very similar to the late martial artist and actor Bruce Lee from Guangdong.

history

The company originally started out as "168 Dessert House" - 168 甜品 屋 , a Dongguan dessert specialty store founded by entrepreneur Pan, Yuhai ( 潘宇海 ). Due to the business failure of his sister Pan, Minfeng ( 潘敏峰 ) and his brother-in-law Cai, Dabiao ( 蔡 達標  /  蔡 达标 ), Pan let the two relatives enter the dessert business with him in 1994. First as a 50 percent shareholder, later in 1997 after a name change - 168 蒸 品 店 , 雙 種子 飲食 公司  /  双 种子 饮食 公司 - and new product orientation with a 25 percent share. In 1999 the company settled in the provincial capital of Guangzhou (“Canton”). In 2004 the company finally renamed itself to “ Real Kungfu ” in order to establish itself as a fast-food restaurant chain, initially based in the Tianhe district . In 2005 the company already had a hundred branches all over China. After a capital increase in 2006 through venture capital investors, the company grew again rapidly and went public in 2009 . In 2011, Kungfu had 300 fast-service restaurants , and in 2013 there were already 479 branches across China. There are kung fu restaurants at several Chinese airports, for example in Shenzhen .

  • Restaurant chain (Real) "Kungfu" - 真 功夫

  • Chinese "kungfu" chain, Tianhe 2016

  • “Kungfu” rice dish with soup, side dishes, 2018

  • “Kungfu” in Shenzhen Airport , 2013

Various

Due to the great graphic similarity of the company logo with the late Sino-American martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, Shannon Emery Lee - 李 香 凝 , daughter of Bruce Lee - filed a lawsuit against the Chinese restaurant chain with a Shanghai court for copyright infringement in December 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Kungfu (restaurant)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 关于 我们 - "About us". In: www.zkungfu.com. Retrieved July 12, 2019 (Chinese).
  2. ↑ a b 金梅 - Jin Mei: 真 功夫 ： 家族 企業 的 命運 悲劇 - "Real Kunfu: Dramatic fate of a family business". In: finance.sina.com. May 23, 2018, accessed July 12, 2019 (Chinese).
  3. ↑ 方京玉 - Fang Jingyu: 2017 年 国人 点 外卖 吃掉 2046 亿 真 功夫 副 总裁 ： 外卖 选择 已 不再 是 “便宜 为 王” - China's take-away market hits 204.6 billion yuan (32 billion USD ) in 2017 - deputy. CEO of Real Kungfu: The motto for food orders, "Everything is cheap" no longer applies. In: www.nbdpress.com. May 9, 2018, Retrieved July 12, 2019 (Chinese).
  4. ↑ Fang Jingyu: China's takeaway food market stands at $ 32 bln in 2017. In: www.nbdpress.com. May 10, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Guangzhou Real Kungfu Catering Management Co Ltd. In: www.bloomberg.com . Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Michael O .: Dining - Kung Fu Restaurant . In: www.smartshanghai.com. August 27, 2008, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ China Daily: Chinese fast food firms challenging McDonald's. In: China Daily . October 29, 2013, accessed July 12, 2019 (Chinese, English).
  8. ↑ 经营 公示 - "Branches". In: www.zkungfu.com. Retrieved July 12, 2019 (Chinese).
  9. ^ Gao Changxin: McDonald's seeking a new menu for mainland success. In: China Daily . August 31, 2011, accessed July 12, 2019 (Chinese, English).
  10. ↑ dpa : Daughter of Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee sued restaurant chain. In: www.tonight.de. December 27, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  11. ^ Dpa: Chinese restaurant chain - Bruce Lee daughter complains. In: ZDF . December 27, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 李小龍 維權 告 快餐 店 集團 - 李 香 凝 索 2.3 億 - "Fast food group indicted by Bruce Lee's rights holder - Shannon Lee demands 210 million yuan". In: Oriental Daily News . December 25, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 (Chinese).