Ciao Italy: Jollibee opens first store in Europe

Mye Mulingtapang, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/business/03/19/jollibee.jpg' ><figcaption>Filipinos line up in front of a Jollibee store in Milan, its first in Europe.</figcaption></figure></div><p>MILAN - Filipinos thronged the opening of Jollibee's first European store here for a taste of the fried chicken and spaghetti from back home.</p><p>Patrons lined up outside the store, some coming from Turin, Rome, Venice and Florence and even other parts of Europe like Switzerland and Denmark.</p><p>"Na-excite lang ako nung malaman ko na magkakaroon ng Jollibee rito. Pumunta ako dito kahit apat na oras ang byahe," said customer James Abanilla.</p><p>(I was excited when I learned that Jollibee will open here, even if I traveled for four hours.)</p><p>Swiss national Frank Fausch said he and his family traveled five hours from Swtizerland to Milan.</p><p>"I know that it’s good so we want to taste again," he said.</p><p>Italy is home to the seventh biggest population of expatriate Filipino workers, with close to 272,000 people working there in 2013, according to data from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas.</p><p><script src='https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5' async type='text/javascript'></script></p><div class='fb-post' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/jollibee.it/videos/341954196327306/' data-width='auto'> </div><p>Jollibee Milan has an all-Filipino crew. Labor Sec. Silvestre Bello said he hoped the company would expand to other parts of Europe, bringing more job opportunities to Filipinos.</p><p>"It is a symbol of Filipino ingenuity. Talagang kayang-kaya nating iharap ang galing natin sa entrepreneurship," he said.</p><p>(It is a symbol of Filipino ingenuity, that we can really hold our own when it comes to entrepreneurship.)</p>

<p>(I was excited when I learned that Jollibee will open here, even if I traveled for four hours.)</p><p>Swiss national Frank Fausch said he and his family traveled five hours from Swtizerland to Milan.</p><p>"I know that it’s good so we want to taste again," he said.</p><p>Italy is home to the seventh biggest population of expatriate Filipino workers, with close to 272,000 people working there in 2013, according to data from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas.</p><p><script src='https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5' async type='text/javascript'></script></p><div class='fb-post' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/jollibee.it/videos/341954196327306/' data-width='auto'> </div><p>Jollibee Milan has an all-Filipino crew. Labor Sec. Silvestre Bello said he hoped the company would expand to other parts of Europe, bringing more job opportunities to Filipinos.</p><p>"It is a symbol of Filipino ingenuity. Talagang kayang-kaya nating iharap ang galing natin sa entrepreneurship," he said.</p><p>(It is a symbol of Filipino ingenuity, that we can really hold our own when it comes to entrepreneurship.)</p>

<p>Patrons lined up outside the store, some coming from Turin, Rome, Venice and Florence and even other parts of Europe like Switzerland and Denmark.</p><p>"Na-excite lang ako nung malaman ko na magkakaroon ng Jollibee rito. Pumunta ako dito kahit apat na oras ang byahe," said customer James Abanilla.</p>

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/business/03/19/jollibee.jpg' ><figcaption>Filipinos line up in front of a Jollibee store in Milan, its first in Europe.</figcaption></figure></div><p>MILAN - Filipinos thronged the opening of Jollibee's first European store here for a taste of the fried chicken and spaghetti from back home.</p>

<p>Filipinos thronged the opening of Jollibee's first European store here for a taste of the fried chicken and spaghetti from back home.</p>

Filipinos thronged the opening of Jollibee's first European store here for a taste of the fried chicken and spaghetti from back home.

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Ciao Italy: Jollibee opens first store in Europe

Ciao Italy: Jollibee opens first store in Europe