Portrait of Kentaro Ogawa

Rank #1356

Kentaro Ogawa

Net worth $3.2B

Restaurants · Japan

Born
Jul 01, 1948
Age
77
Source
Restaurants
Residence
Tokyo
Citizenship
Japan
Marital status
Married
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Kentaro Ogawa founded fast-food outfit Zensho Holdings in 1982. Publicly traded Zensho has a network of more than 15,000 restaurants.
  • Its Sukiya chain serves shredded beef over rice (called gyudon). It also owns a steak chain called Big Boy and pasta specialty chain Jolly Pasta.
  • Ogawa wants to turn Zensho into the world's number one food company so that it "can help eradicate hunger and poverty from the world."
  • Zensho's restaurant network includes coffee shops as well as outlets that serve hamburger steaks.
  • Ogawa is a former shipyard worker and labor union activist in Japan.
  • His son, Yohei, is managing executive director of Zensho.

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