{"id":1124308,"date":"2021-12-16T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124308"},"modified":"2021-12-16T07:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:13:41","slug":"kfc-asks-japanese-to-pre-order-traditional-christmas-meals-to-abide-by-social-distancing-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kfc-asks-japanese-to-pre-order-traditional-christmas-meals-to-abide-by-social-distancing-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC Asks Japanese to Pre-Order Traditional Christmas Meals to Abide by Social Distancing Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkfc-asks-japanese-to-pre-order-traditional-christmas-meals-to-abide-by-social-distancing-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">KFC is striving to ensure that it will meet its typical high demand in Japan for Christmas Day by urging customers to pre-order, avoiding the creation of the usual long times that now violate coronavirus social distancing measures, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2021\/12\/15\/business\/corporate-business\/kfc-christmas-chicken-covid19\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Many Japanese partake in a KFC fried chicken dinner on Christmas, a tradition born in the 1970s as a result of savvy marketing and, the legend goes, a fateful turn as Santa Claus for the man who ran what has become the most important KFC franchise in Japanese history. As Japan has a very small Christian population, most citizens do not celebrate the holiday proper and the country had no widespread established traditions before KFC filled the void, offering upscale fried chicken dinners for a romantic couples\u2019 night on December 25.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19148274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1292729759.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19148274 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1292729759-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"KFC Christmas meal boxes are pictured on December 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. KFC at Christmas has become something of a tradition in Japan with some attributing its yuletide popularity to a kindergarten delivery being made in a Santa Claus outfit which was such a success it was requested by a number of other schools and subsequently gave the company the idea of associating its product to Christmas. The chain launched its first Christmas campaign in December 1974, and has continued to do so every year at all its outlets nationwide. In 2018, KFC Japan posted all-time high sales of roughly 68 million USD for the five days from December 21 to 25. Roughly 10 percent of its annual turnover for the entire year. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>KFC Christmas meal boxes are pictured on December 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>KFC Christmas marketing is especially aggressive in Japan and the company often presents itself as a defining cultural marker of Christmas as a holiday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7170542635659\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf84<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30b1\u30f3\u30bf\u30c3\u30ad\u30fc\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9<\/a>\ud83c\udf84<br \/>\u65e5\u672c\u3067\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9\u306b\u30c1\u30ad\u30f3\u3092\u98df\u3079\u308b\u6587\u5316\u304c\u5e83\u307e\u3063\u305f\u7406\u7531\u3001\u5b9f\u306f\u3082\u3046\u4e00\u3064\u3042\u308b\u3093\u3067\u3059\u2757\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KFC<\/a> 1\u53f7\u5e97\u3067\u8fd1\u6240\u306e\u5e7c\u7a1a\u5712\u304b\u3089\u30d1\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30fc\u3067\u30b5\u30f3\u30bf\u3055\u3093\u5f79\u3092\u983c\u307e\u308c\u305f\u5e97\u9577\ud83c\udf85\u30b5\u30f3\u30bf\u59ff\u3067\u914d\u3063\u305f\u30c1\u30ad\u30f3\u306f\u5b50\u4f9b\u9054\u306b\u5927\u4eba\u6c17\u3060\u3063\u305f\u3068\u304b\ud83c\udf57\ud83d\ude0a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E8%AB%B8%E8%AA%AC%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u8af8\u8aac\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%81%A819%E6%97%A5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9\u307e\u3067\u3042\u306819\u65e5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E4%BB%8A%E6%97%A5%E3%81%AE%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u4eca\u65e5\u306e\u30ab\u30fc\u30cd\u30eb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MbjSv8b4h6\">pic.twitter.com\/MbjSv8b4h6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u30b1\u30f3\u30bf\u30c3\u30ad\u30fc\u30d5\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u30c1\u30ad\u30f3\ud83c\udf57 (@KFC_jp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KFC_jp\/status\/1467765803466780672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The popularity of KFC Christmas dinners, Reuters reported, apparently caused some concern for company executives in light of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;Japan has <a href=\"https:\/\/gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6\">documented<\/a> 1.7 million cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began and over 18,000 deaths; in the past month, that tally has been upwards of 3,000 cases. While not among the world\u2019s highest coronavirus infection rates, Japanese officials have implemented strict measures to contain the virus and have expressed concerns that the Omicron variant, discovered by South African scientists in November, may pose a significant threat to society, instituting a sweeping travel ban that keeps non-citizens and non-residents out indefinitely. Japan has documented 32 Omicron cases, but about half of them were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2021\/12\/15\/national\/covid19-tracker-omicron\/\">confirmed<\/a> in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19148338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1292729770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19148338 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1292729770-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"People queue in front of a KFC restaurant on December 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. KFC at Christmas has become something of a tradition in Japan with some attributing its yuletide popularity to a kindergarten delivery being made in a Santa Claus outfit which was such a success it was requested by a number of other schools and subsequently gave the company the idea of associating its product to Christmas. The chain launched its first Christmas campaign in December 1974, and has continued to do so every year at all its outlets nationwide. In 2018, KFC Japan posted all-time high sales of roughly 68 million USD for the five days from December 21 to 25. Roughly 10 percent of its annual turnover for the entire year. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People queue in front of a KFC restaurant on December 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. KFC at Christmas has become something of a tradition in Japan with some attributing its yuletide popularity to a kindergarten delivery being made in a Santa Claus outfit which was such a success it was requested by a number of other schools and subsequently gave the company the idea of associating its product to Christmas. The chain launched its first Christmas campaign in December 1974, and has continued to do so every year at all its outlets nationwide. In 2018, KFC Japan posted all-time high sales of roughly 68 million USD for the five days from December 21 to 25. Roughly 10 percent of its annual turnover for the entire year. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis year, KFC Holdings Japan, the domestic licenser of the Yum! Brands Inc. franchise, is nudging customers to order online and then pick up their chicken at a certain time, rather than forming up in the traditional queues,\u201d Reuters reported. \u201cThe run-up to Christmas is the company\u2019s biggest sales week and it hopes the move will help maintain those revenues, which fell last year from a record, and let customers keep a tradition that stretches back to the 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first major move to encourage customers to play ahead and not rush to restaurants on December 25 was an \u201cearly bird\u201d special that offered discounts for reserving a meal. The deal ended on December 12, according to KFC\u2019s official Japanese website. The top deal KFC offered for \u201cearly birds\u201d was a \u201cparty bucket\u201d to share with a large group for 4,000 yen (about $35).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.106639839034\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\uff0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30d1\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30d0\u30fc\u30ec\u30eb<\/a> \u65e9\u5272\u4e88\u7d04\u53d7\u4ed8\u4e2d\ud83c\udf84<br \/>12\u670812\u65e5(\u65e5)\u307e\u3067\u1f44\u2728<br \/>\uff3c<\/p>\n<p>\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9\u304c\u4eca\u5e74\u3082\u3084\u3063\u3066\u304f\u308b\u301c\ud83c\udfb5<br \/>\u3053\u306e\u66f2\u3092\u8074\u304f\u3068\u51ac\u304c\u6765\u305f\u306a\u3068\u611f\u3058\u307e\u3059\u3088\u306d\u2744\ufe0f<br \/>\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9\u3068\u3044\u3048\u3070 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KFC<\/a> \u3068\u3044\u3046\u65b9\u306f\u3010\ud83c\udf84\u3011\u306e\u7d75\u6587\u5b57\u3067\u6559\u3048\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u263a\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u3054\u4e88\u7d04\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089<br \/>\u27a1<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4xqNdCfGaU\">https:\/\/t.co\/4xqNdCfGaU<\/a><br \/>\u203b\u6570\u91cf\u9650\u5b9a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30b1\u30f3\u30bf\u30c3\u30ad\u30fc\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/btBpSohTw4\">pic.twitter.com\/btBpSohTw4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u30b1\u30f3\u30bf\u30c3\u30ad\u30fc\u30d5\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u30c1\u30ad\u30f3\ud83c\udf57 (@KFC_jp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KFC_jp\/status\/1465139207517929472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs an infection countermeasure, we\u2019re spacing out reservations to try to limit as much as possible the times when people are bunched together,\u201d Tetsuya Noguchi, a KFC Japan spokesman, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Other deals still available in Japan at press time include a \u201cpremium\u201d roast chicken dinner, various specials including a chocolate dessert for two or larger groups, and a chicken breast stuffed with cheese sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters noted that KFC enjoyed record Christmas sales in 2019 before the pandemic and lockdown restrictions resulted in a sharp decline in profits, as many were not gathering or dining out. In addition to the typical reasons sales are high in Japan for the company during Christmas, local outlets noted that KFC had successfully fueled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/12\/25\/christmas-equals-kentucky-japanese-prepare-for-traditional-kfc-christmas-dinner\/\">meme recipe<\/a>, \u201cDevil Cooked Rice,\u201d that had become popular online. The recipe required pieces of KFC chicken to be placed into a rice cooker with rice, soy sauce, and chicken broth.<\/p>\n<p>KFC first offered a Christmas dinner deal in Japan in 1974, the brainchild of franchisee Takeshi Okawara, who opened the first restaurant in the country in 1970. Okawara was recruited to cater a Christmas party at a local Catholic school and to play Santa Claus, and now admits that, after his Santa Claus performance grew into a local curiosity, he lied on television and claimed Americans eat chicken for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639654455979000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1fRfb_h2E6ZdmFpXjJbORU\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639654455979000&amp;usg=AOvVaw030ychS5E25vfDOdsWnlWi\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFC is striving to ensure that it will meet its typical high demand in Japan for Christmas Day by urging customers to pre-order, avoiding the creation of the usual long &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}