{"id":167323,"date":"2018-06-12T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=167323"},"modified":"2018-06-18T04:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:14:39","slug":"filipino-fast-food-chain-jollibee-to-open-100-canadian-stores-in-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/12\/filipino-fast-food-chain-jollibee-to-open-100-canadian-stores-in-next-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino fast food chain Jollibee to open 100 Canadian stores in next five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_167324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167324\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jollibee-opens-in-Scarborough-Ontario.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167324\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jollibee-opens-in-Scarborough-Ontario.jpg\" alt=\"Jollibee attracted long lines of customers when it entered the Canadian market in 2016, opening two Winnipeg locations and a store in Scarborough, Ont. (pictured) over the last three years. (Photo: Jollibee Canada\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jollibee-opens-in-Scarborough-Ontario.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jollibee-opens-in-Scarborough-Ontario-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jollibee-opens-in-Scarborough-Ontario-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jollibee attracted long lines of customers when it entered the Canadian market in 2016, opening two Winnipeg locations and a store in Scarborough, Ont. (pictured) over the last three years. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/jollibeecan\/photos\/a.1826790274276830.1073741828.1803913829897808\/2207105579578629\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/jollibeecan\" target=\"_blank\">Jollibee Canada\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Filipino fast-food chain Jollibee Food Corporation plans to open 100 stores in Canada within the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it is eyeing the wave of new locations because the country is a key growth market and a big part of its North American expansion plans.<\/p>\n<p>Jollibee attracted long lines of customers when it entered the Canadian market in 2016, opening two Winnipeg locations and a store in Scarborough, Ont. over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>It hopes to expand further in Ontario, but is also exploring stores in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Its aggressive expansion comes as international interest in Filipino food is rising and as Canada is attracting an increasing number of restaurants serving such food.<\/p>\n<p>Jollibee&#8217;s Filipino fare includes spaghetti in a sweet sauce, crispy chicken, burgers and peach mango pies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Filipino fast-food chain Jollibee Food Corporation plans to open 100 stores in Canada within the next five years. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":167324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,69,16],"tags":[398,6663,6662],"class_list":["post-167323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","category-food","category-news","tag-canada","tag-fast-food","tag-jollibee","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}