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California chicken roaster aimed for global dominance

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4 min read . Updated: 22 Feb 2023, 10:54 PM IST The Wall Street Journal

Representative image. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Representative image. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Albert Okura, who has died at 71, founded Juan Pollo restaurants and bought a ghost town on Route 66.

Albert Okura, who grew up in Los Angeles as a grandson of Japanese immigrants, had a simple goal: to sell “more chicken than anyone in the world." He called that his destiny.