Neither pizza nor chinese is delivered cold, and logistically speaking, pizza is larger and requires more effort to keep the heat retained.
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February same store sales actually inched up 2% in China, on the back of flat numbers at KFC and a 13% surge in Pizza Hut, as Chinese consumers ramped up purchases around the Lunar New Year.
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They posed a problem for Chinese restaurants and their hanging ducks, for pizza parlors and their slices, and chefs wanting to make their own charcuterie.
Who would have thought that pizza would become a staple of the Chinese fast food and casual dining industry, going against the grain of thousands of years of culinary history?
But, China continues to surprise, and I began noticing pizza becoming the food of choice for our Chinese staff when organizing office parties.
Chinese same-store sales, which also include figures from Pizza Hut, fell by 6% after growing 21% a year earlier.
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Brands, operator of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, managed 6% growth at established Chinese locations, down considerably from past quarters where growth topped 20%.
He still likes the long-term outlook in the growing Chinese market, applauding the company's plan to ramp up its Pizza Hut chain to 150 pizza delivery outlets by 2008 from 25 today.
With a cooling economy, Chinese demand may shrivel, reducing disposable incomes that once went for nights out at KFC or Pizza Hut.
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The operator of Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains has made its Pizza Hut chain into a nice restaurant in the country, deemed by some contemporary Chinese to be a great place for a first date, while introducing products such as fried dough sticks, egg tarts and shrimp burgers to suit local tastes.
You can find anything and everything at Barbar's: take-away pizza, hamburgers, subs, chicken fried 'Kentucky style', fajita sandwich, Chinese chicken, donuts even.
In the Philippines the company boasts Chinese fast-food chain Chow King, Red Ribbon bakeries, Mang Inasal grilled chicken outlets, Greenwich pizza parlors and its U.S. chain Burger King franchises.
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