Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co., Ltd., doing business as Country Style Cooking or CSC (), is a Chinese fast food restaurant chain. The company is incorporated in the

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History

The chain was established in 1996, and its original name was 乡村鸡. In January 2008 the company had nine restaurants.Company Information

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. Country Style Cooking Investor Relations. Retrieved on August 24, 2015. As of 2013 it has 250 restaurants in Chongqing Municipality,

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. As of that year is the largest fast food restaurant brand within Chongqing Municipality and the only restaurant chain headquartered in Asia that has a listing on the

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. As of 2013 the chief financial officer is Adam Zhao.Berg, Caroline.
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''. October 1, 2013. Retrieved on August 24, 2015. As of September 2014 there were 332 restaurants.

Operations

As of 2015 it has elements of

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and each restaurant has a total of 20 employees. The time to prepare a meal is usually 60 seconds from ordering. In 2014 James Roy, a China Market Research Group senior analyst, stated that CSC was "really strong in western China"."Chinese fast food firms challenging McDonald's." ''

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{{Authority control Fast-food chains of China Companies based in Chongqing 1996 establishments in China Restaurants established in 1996 Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange