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Lotteria, a portmanteau of Lotte (its parent company) and cafeteria, was founded in 1972 by South Korean businessman Shin Kyuk-ho; its first location opened the same year in Japan. In 1979, the restaurant expanded to South Korea for the first time. Today, the country is home to more than 1,300 locations. The Japanese and Korean arms of Lotteria are no longer related, and the locations in each country operate separately.
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