Restaurant Chains Around the World Quiz

Kyochon is a South Korean fried chicken restaurant chain. It was founded in 1991 and also has branches in China, Thailand, the US, United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Its headquarters are in the city of Osan, near Seoul. Its menu includes the Red series (chicken with cheongyang chilli pepper, the Black Secret series (chicken in a sticky five-spice sauce), and the Honey series (crispy chicken with a honey sauce). According to Kyochon's website, Korean fried chicken uses lighter batter and is double-fried; firstly to evaporate the water in the skin, and secondly to brown the meat without overcooking it.

Rodilla is a Spanish fast-food chain specialising in hot and cold sandwiches, and also does breakfasts, pastries and salads. The majority of its branches are in Madrid, where it was founded by Antonio Rodilla in 1939, and it also has a branch in Miami, Florida, opened in 2019.

As well as classics such as tuna and sweetcorn or ham, it also has some more unusual sandwiches, such as a mixture of cream cheese, tuna, walnuts, raisins and port, or foie gras.

Jollibee is a Filipino fast food chain. It also has branches in Europe (its first European branch was in Milan, Italy), the US, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia (although the chain was forced to temporarily withdraw from Malaysia and Indonesia in 1997 for financial reasons).

It was initially founded as an ice cream parlour in Quezon City in 1975 by Tony Tan Caktiong, but later branched out into food; when the food became more popular than the ice cream, the restaurant was rebranded as a fast food restaurant in 1978.

Its signature burger is the Yumburger, a hamburger with mayonnaise, and it serves a mix of American and Filipino food; as well as Chickenjoy fried chicken, there's also palabok, a rice noodle dish, and peach mango pie.

MADO is a Turkish ice cream and pastry chain. Founded as a brand by Osman Aga in 1850, it originally served an ice dessert called 'karsambaç' ('ice slush') made with snow from local mountains, fruit and molasses. It became a chain after 1991 and has branches in Australia, Canada, Europe, East and Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Its name is a portmanteau 'Maras', its city of origin (now Kahramanmaras) and 'dondurma', a type of Turkish ice cream containing salep (orchid tuber flour) and mastic, which gives it a chewy texture.

As well as ice cream and pastries (including baklava), it sells chocolates and Turkish classics like sherbet and lokum/Turkish delight.

Kochlöffel ('cooking spoon') is a German fast food restaurant with branches in Turkey and Poland (where it is known as Conieco). It was founded by Martha van den Berg and her first husband Heinrich Lobenberg in Lingen, Lower Saxony, in 1963. Following Martha's marriage to Clemens van den Berg, a Dutchman, Kochlöffel expanded into a franchise and became known for its Serbian bean soup. Nowadays, its products include fried chicken, burgers and that German classic, Currywurst (slices of sausage in a lurid orange sauce).

Its slogan is 'coming home - ein gutes Zuhause (a good home)'.

A tricky one, this. You might think El Jannah is Middle Eastern, and you'd be partially correct because it serves Lebanese food, but it's actually an Australian fast food chain founded in Granville, Sydney, in 1998. Two Lebanese couples, Simon and Samira Azzi and Andre and Carole Estephan, founded Awafi, a Lebanese takeaway specialising in charcoal grilled chicken; when it grew in popularity, the Estephans broke away to found the El Jannah chain, while the Azzis stayed with Awafi. Although most of its branches are in Sydney, it also has branches elsewhere in Australia; its first outlet outside Sydney opened in Melbourne in 2022, with another one in Canberra the following year.

As well as grilled and fried chicken, El Jannah also serves burgers and fries, wraps, tawouk (chicken shish kebabs) and shawarma, with traditional Lebanese bread, tabbouleh, and dips such as hummus, baba ghanoush and garlic sauce.

Eddie Rocket's is an Irish chain of American-style diners, covering both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with its headquarters in Dublin. It was founded by Niall Fortune in 1989. The menu is standard diner fare with burgers, fried chicken, hot dogs, fries, milkshakes and floats.

Some branches were rebranded as Rockin' Joe's in 2013, due to a legal dispute between Fortune and franchisee Brian Dunne; the Rockin' Joe's branches had to change their seats from the trademark red to blue and sell the table jukeboxes to Eddie Rocket's. Rockin' Joe's later changed its name to Shake Dog.

Steers is a South African fast food chain with branches around Africa, including Eswatini, Kenya and Zambia, and the United Arab Emirates (there was also a Steers branch in London, but it closed in 2022). Founder George Halamandress started out in the 1960s with a chain of ice cream parlours called Milky Lane before opening the Rosebank Golden Spur, South Africa's first steakhouse, and two further steakhouses, Seven Steers and the Black Steer.

In the 1980s, when Halamandress' nephews took over the business, it rapidly expanded throughout South Africa and went through various name changes before settling on Steers.

Its menu includes burgers, ribs, grilled steak and chicken, and wors (South African sausage).

Mostaza is an Argentinean fast food chain and the second biggest in Argentina, the first being McDonald's. It also has branches in Uruguay and Paraguay. Naturally, this being Argentina, beef is on the menu; its menu includes burgers such as the Mega BIG BANG Cheddar, the Mega Gourmet Boom (which does not just contain cheese as a filling, but is also drenched in it), and the Mega Clásico Pampeano with sliced ham and peppers.

It also does chicken and vegetable burgers, sandwiches and salads, ice cream and milkshakes. ('Mostaza' is Spanish for mustard.)

Tantalizers is a Nigerian fast food restaurant chain, founded in Lagos in 1997. Initially a small local burger restaurant, it branched out into a mixture of American and Nigerian foods. On the American side, there's burgers, fries, salads, cupcakes and doughnuts; however, like many of the other restaurants in this quiz, it also has a heavy emphasis on local cuisine.

The 'Africana' menu includes swallows (dough-like grain-based foods), such as eba (made with manioc) and amala (made with yam), ofada rice served on plantain leaves and fried plantain slices; other dishes include jollof rice, akara (bean fritters), pap (a type of porridge) and Scotch eggs, a British import.

As well as chicken and beef, shaki (tripe), snails and goat are also on the menu.