Benihana founder Rocky Aoki dies in New York from cancerKELLI KENNEDY
12 incredible things about Benihana founder Rocky Aoki.benihanaFeaturesrockyaokiA record-setting balloonist, an Olympic wrestler, a backgammon champ, and a porn publisher, too: The "eatertainment" founder had an enormous appetite for life.Fry...
The founder of Benihana, Inc., was a 25-year-old Olympic wrestler fro m Japan named Hiroaki Rocky Aoki. He got his start in the restaurant business by working after school in his family's coffee shop in downt own Tokyo. His mother named the family business Benihana after a red flower...
Learn more about the history of Benihana and its founder Rocky Aoki, from Rocky's first food venture to the very first Benihana restaurant.
The item was conceived by Keiko Ono Aoki, widow of the chain’s founder, Rocky Aoki. (We’ll refer to her as Ono to avoid confusion.) Her company, Benihana of Tokyo, owns or franchises 18 restaurants from Europe to Asia and also manages the Benihana at the Hilton Hawaiian Village ...
The article reports that Keiko Aoki, the third wife of Benihana Inc.'s founder Rocky Aoki-is fighting a court battle with her stepchildren over control of the Benihana of Tokyo restaurant empire. In December 2010, she sued Benihana Inc., a company that licensed the restaurant concept in ...
S., Latin America and Caribbean. It states that in July 2010 too, Benihana planned for sale, following shareholder battles,which resulted in the removal of concept founder Rocky Aoki's family trust among top shareholders.Va...