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Ciao Italy: Jollibee opens first store in Europe

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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&#x27;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>&quot;Na-excite lang ako nung malaman ko na magkakaroon ng Jollibee rito. Pumunta ako dito kahit apat na oras ang byahe,&quot; 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>&quot;I know that it’s good so we want to taste again,&quot; 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><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><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>&quot;It is a symbol of Filipino ingenuity. Talagang kayang-kaya nating iharap ang galing natin sa entrepreneurship,&quot; 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>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

Mye Mulingtapang,

ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau

Published March 19, 2018 02:28 PM PHT

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