MOS Burger

MOS Food Services, Inc.
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 8153
IndustryFoodservice
FoundedTokyo, Japan (July 21, 1972; 52 years ago (1972-07-21))
FounderAtsushi Sakurada (櫻田 厚, Sakurada Atsushi)
HeadquartersThinkPark Tower
2-1-1 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-6029 Japan
Key people
Atsushi Sakurada, (CEO and President)
Products
Revenue$ 663 million (FY 2012)
(¥ 62.371 billion) (FY 2012)
$ 16 million (FY 2012)
(¥ 1.52 billion) (FY 2012)
Number of employees
1,375 (as of March 2016)[1]
Subsidiaries9
Websitewww.mos.co.jp/global/
Footnotes / references
[2][3]

MOS Food Services, Inc. (株式会社モスフードサービス, Kabushiki-kaisha Mosu Fūdo Sābisu), doing business as MOS Burger (モスバーガー, Mosu bāgā) (which stands for "Mountain Ocean Sun"[4]), is a multinational fast-food restaurant chain (fast-casual) from Japan. Its headquarters are in the ThinkPark Tower in Ōsaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo.[2] At one time its headquarters were located in Shinjuku, Tokyo.[5][6]

It is the second-largest fast-food franchise in Japan after McDonald's, and owns numerous overseas outlets over East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania, including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. It is also the name of the standard hamburger offered by the restaurant, being its first product when it opened in 1972.

As of February 2014 the publicly traded company runs 1,730 MOS Burger and several AEN, Chef's V and Green Grill stores. One slogan used within its stores is "Japanese Fine Burger and Coffee".[2]

  1. ^ Corporate Profile MOS Burger, 2017
  2. ^ a b c "Corporate Profile". Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  3. ^ "Financial Statements". Archived from the original on June 20, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  4. ^ "産学連携企画「M O S」デザインのモスカード | モスバーガー公式サイト". Mos.co.jp. Retrieved December 27, 2017.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Company Outline". April 17, 2001. Archived from the original on April 17, 2001. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
  6. ^ "Map in Japanese". Archived from the original on December 5, 2000. Retrieved March 29, 2014.