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Cupbop
Cupbop (stylized as CUP-BOP) is an American fast casual restaurant chain located in the United States and Indonesia. They serve Street food, street-food style Korean barbecue, otherwise known as cup-bap ( ko, 컵밥). Cupbop started out in 2013 as a food truck in Salt Lake County, Utah and has grown steadily. The restaurant is credited with bringing Korean BBQ to Utah. As of February 2023, in the United States there are 48 total store locations, six food trucks, and several Concession stand, concessions locations including the Vivint Arena, Utah Jazz NBA Arena. The chain also operates over 100 locations throughout Indonesia. In 2020 the chain saw $10 million in annual revenue. History Junghun Song started Cupbop after finding out that Korean cuisine was not represented at a Utah food convention in 2013. Song and two of his friends began selling Korean cuisine out of a 20-year-old food truck soon after and became the founders and part-owners of Cupbop. Throughout 2015, Cupbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cup-bap
Cup-bap ( ko, 컵밥) is a food truck offering that consists of ''bap (rice dish), bap'' (rice) in a paper or plastic cup with a variety of toppings. Created in the 2000s for Korea street food, cup-bap has become a popular quick meal or snack for students from private cram schools known as hagwon, ''hagwons'' (Korean pronunciation: Help:IPA/Korean, [haɡwʌn]) in the neighborhood of Noryangjin. Definition and history In the streets of Noryangjin, many students would come out to eat at the same time which had been causing long lines at restaurants. Noryangjin had only offered very basic quick snacks such as hot dogs, so food trucks with cup-bap then filled the demand for quick, cheap, and more satisfying meals with rice, meat, and egg. Food trucks are able to quickly fill cup-bap orders, because they Stir frying, stir-fry the ingredients in advance in a large frying pan; when the cup-bap is ordered, the pre-cooked toppings are put in a cup with rice and egg. Because cup-bap is con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
