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Lotteria (롯데리아) is an Asian fast food restaurant from Japan, and now with branches across East Asia. It takes its name from its parent company, Lotte. The restaurant is is similar to McDonalds.
[edit] History
The first Lotteria restaurant opened in 1972 in Japan. In 1979, the first restaurant in South Korea opened and now is the number one fast food restaurant surpassing McDonalds in part by introducing lines of Koreanized fast foods including its now signature kimchi burger.
A typical Lotteria franchise.
Lotteria strikes most initial visitors as a Korean version of most Western-style fast food restaurants with some local additions. It includes typical fast food items such as burgers, fried chicken, chicken wings, chicken fingers, iced coffee, baked potatoes, yogurt, salads, cheese sticks, but also teriyaki, squid rings, and also a shaved iced dessert called Pat Bing Su.
Lotteria offers 14 different kinds of burgers for sale: Green Pork Burger, Rye Wellbeing Burger, Burger Zzang Zzajang, Burger Zzang Kimchi, Burger Zzang Curry, Rye Shrimp Burger, Shrimp Burger, Bulgogi Burger, Burgalbi Burger, Chicken Burger, Big Rib Burger, Rib Sand, Cheese Burger, and the Teri Burger. The "Zzang" burgers are actually bun-less burgers. Where the bun should be, there is a round ricecake instead.
[edit] Recycling
Lotteria has been at the forefront of a push by the Korean food service industry and citizens to implement recycling programs and other environmentally friendly policies beyond government mandates. Most beverages and desserts eaten in the restaurant come in reusable glass or plastic. Disposable paper cups come with a 10 cent deposit which is returned to the customer when he/she brings back the cup for recycling. Customers are encouraged to bring their own bags by charging them between a nickel and 10 cents for a new bag. The goal is a 90% reduction in disposables.
The trash receptacles are also much more specialized than typical recycling efforts with wax paper drink cups, plastic lids and drinking straws, cardboard fry wrappers, and napkins and paper tray liners all going into separate containers. Ice goes into some kind of cistern.
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