Çiğköftem is a Turkish fast food chain and franchise[1] that mainly sells vegan çiğ köfte.[2] The chain also sells products with cow's milk dairy and is overall certified with the vegetarian V-Label.[3] In 2020, the brand encompassed around 130 restaurants.[4]
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| Introduced | 1993 |
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| Website | cigkoftem.com |
The company that operates Çiğköftem, EM Group, was founded in 1993[5] in Istanbul by brothers Erdoğan, Ahmet and Yavuz Güner.[6] It started as a supplier of çiğ köfte for supermarkets, and opened the first Çiğköftem restaurant in 2005.[5] The chain opened its first branch outside Turkey in 2009 in Belgium and, as of 2021, has branches in Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Azerbaijan.[1] The company is registered in Turkey and Germany.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "50 Girişimciye 40'ar Bin TL Hibe ve Ücretsiz Bayilik". Fortune Turkey (in Turkish). 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ a b "Çiğköftem, fast-food responsable... malgré lui". Le Journal International (in French). 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ "Katalog" (PDF). Çiğköftem.
- ^ Sleutelstad. "Turkse vegan keten Cigkoftem opent in Leiden". Sleutelstad (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ a b "Çiğköftede ücretsiz bayilik". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 28 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
- ^ "Kurumsal - Çiğköftem". www.cigkoftem.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-04-08.