Manchu Wok

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Manchu Wok Inc.
Subsidiary
Industry Fast Food
Founded 1980; 44 years ago (1980) in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Founders Jack Lew
Headquarters Markham, Ontario, Canada
Number of locations
 70[1]
Area served
  • Canada
  • United States
Products
Parent MTY Food Group
Website www.manchuwok.com

Manchu Wok Inc. is a Canadian fast food restaurant chain that specializes in Chinese fusion cuisine. The brand operates 57 locations across eight Canadian provinces and 13 in the United States. The chain operates in shopping malls, airports and US military installations. It was owned by Hong Kong-based Café de Coral, and now it is owned by Canada-based MTY Food Group since 2014.[2][3]

Despite the chain's name, the menu does not feature any dishes from traditional Manchurian cuisine and instead serves mostly American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine.

History

The first store was opened by Dr. Jack Lew and other Hong Kong immigrants in 1980 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.[4] Lew hired food service equipment consultant Alfred Grech, a Maltese immigrant, to design and help with the building of the first 33 stores. In 1992, Lew sold the company to Scott's Hospitality Inc.[citation needed] At the time of the sale, there were 113 Manchu Wok units in Canada and United States.[5] Under new ownership, there were 237 Manchu Wok units in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom by April 1992.[5]

By 1996, there were 245 Manchu Wok when parent company Scott's Hospitality was acquired by Laidlaw Inc.[6]

In 2000, Laidlaw sold the company to a group of investors headed by Ken Fowler and Café de Coral.[7][8] At the time of the sale in 2000, there were 74 locations in Canada, 119 locations in the United States and 2 in Poland.[9]

Business activity outside North America

Although most of the company's business activity is located in North America, the company briefly had franchises in the United Kingdom and Poland in 1992 and 2000 respectively which have since closed. In 2003 and 2004, Manchu Wok expanded its operations to US military bases in Santa Rita, Guam; and Okinawa, Japan, respectively. It also has two locations serving the U.S. military on Camp Humphreys and Osan Air Base in Korea,[10][better source needed] There are also locations at Ramstein Air Base in Germany[11] and U.S. Army Base, Grafenwohr, Germany.

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://manchuwok.com/store-locator/[dead link]
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