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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