American fast food chains busily conquering China
Friday, January 16, 2004
BEIJING -- Colonel Sanders, whose bearded, down-home visage adorns chicken restaurants from Kentucky to Karachi, is headed for a new frontier -- the mountains of Tibet. There's more: Taco Bell will expand across China in the near future. Pizza Hut will step up its home deliveries. And McDonald's is adding 100 more restaurants to the 560 it already has in the country. As China increasingly embraces the outside world and its snack food, U.S. fast-food chains are kicking off a high-speed expansion in the world's biggest market.
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