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Golden Corral is an American family-style restaurant chain serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, and featuring a large buffet and grill offering numerous hot and cold dishes, a carving station and their Brass Bell Bakery. It is a privately held company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, with locations in forty-one states.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=GoldenCorral.com )〕 ==History== In 1971, James Maynard and William F. Carl conceived the idea that became Golden Corral after several unsuccessful attempts to acquire a franchise with other companies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Funding Universe )〕 Golden Corral was incorporated in 1972 and the first Golden Corral Family Steak House opened on January 3, 1973, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The company has since expanded to 500 locations across the United States; about 100 of them are company-owned. The others are franchised stores.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Hoovers )〕 Gross sales are over $1.53 billion. The company had more than 500 restaurants by 1987. That year, they decided to begin franchising by licensing 55 distressed restaurants to their most successful general managers. Because of poor training, nationwide concerns about the consumption of red meat, and a shift in market shares to upscale restaurants, sales were falling. The company added salad bars to all of its locations, sacrificed seating in most, and in others sacrificed part of the parking lot to make additions to the buildings. In 1991, the first seven "Metro Market" concept restaurants opened. They were and seated between 400 and 450 customers. These new Golden Corral restaurants more than doubled the size of the old, which were typically with a capacity of 175 people. There was the addition of the Brass Bell Bakery, named for the brass bell which rang every fifteen minutes to signal that fresh bread, rolls, and pastries were coming out of the oven. An expanded buffet, dubbed the Golden Choice Buffet, was also added, which had a new layout to showcase its items. The location of these new restaurants, the majority of which were in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and North Carolina, was also a change for the company, moving away from small towns and into metropolitan areas. In 2001, system-wide annual sales exceeded $1 billion for the first time. As of 2008, there were 485 restaurants in 41 states.〔 In April 2009, Golden Corral entered New England with a restaurant in Springfield, Massachusetts.〔"(Golden Corral Restaurant Opening Will Bring New Jobs to Springfield )". Springfield City Hall Online, April 10, 2009. Retrieved on April 23, 2009.〕 In late 1993, VICORP acquired the right to a small Florida chain called Angel’s Diner. They acquired this from Eric A. Holm. Unfortunately he had also sold the rights to Golden Corral and VICORP was forced to pay Golden Corral $1M to secure the exclusive rights. The intent was to convert under performing Village Inn and Bakers Square units to this new concept. After building 7 units, VICORP realized that the concept was not economically viable and wrote off $11M on the venture. During this time frame, Eric A. Holm filed for personal bankruptcy. The company's most recent restaurant concept, called "Strata", was rolled out during the mid-2000s in an effort to bring more of the food preparation into view of the guests. In all locations, guests serve themselves, including requesting made-to-order items such as Belgian waffles, omelets and char-broiled steaks. Many locations offer a "To-Go" service, which allows customers to pack anything they want into a "To-Go" container and then pay for it by the pound. Many restaurants also offer reserved parking. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Golden Corral」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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