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Dom Dom Hamburger

Hamburger

  • 251 kcal

The plain one, at around 300 yen: a beef patty with the renewed ketchup, pickles, sliced onion and mustard. Small and simple, close to the burger Japan first met in 1970. Order two, or get the cheeseburger, which adds a slice of cheese for 100 yen more.

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About Dom Dom Hamburger

  • Japan
  • Since 1970
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Dom Dom exists because of a quarrel over one percent. The supermarket giant Daiei planned a joint venture with McDonald’s to bring hamburgers to Japan, but McDonald’s wanted a 50–50 split and Daiei’s founder, Isao Nakauchi, insisted on 51 percent and control. The deal collapsed, so Daiei built its own chain. In February 1970 it opened a burger shop outside its store in Machida, Tokyo, more than a year before McDonald’s opened in Ginza, which makes Dom Dom Japan’s first hamburger chain. The name comes from “dondon”, from the Daiei motto of selling good things “ever more cheaply”; DONDON was already trademarked, so it became DOMDOM. The mascot is an elephant called Domzō-kun.

About thirty restaurants, mostly in shopping-centre food courts around Tokyo, Chiba, Osaka and Okayama, plus one in Taipei.

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