Since 1964, Benihana of Tokyo has been the creator and originator of Teppanyaki “Entertainment”. We will continue to be global leader in dining hospitality and providing the world an innovative, entertaining dining experience. READ MORE OPENING...
Each of them understood the restaurant business from the ground up—the importance of absolute cleanliness in the kitchen, using the freshest ingredients and the very best cooking tools money could buy. The eldest son, Hiroaki also internalised the important lesson of offering guests something out...
Soo n afterward, in 1993, the Atlanta Benihana of Tokyo restaurant added an 18-seat sushi bar and 35-seat Karaoke dining room to draw more cus tomers on weekday nights. Despite the higher labor and food costs ass ociated with sushi, the company reported an increase in beverage sale s,...
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The story of Benihana had its roots in Japan when Yunosuke Aoki, a samurai descendant and a popular Japanese entertainer together with his wife Katsu, opened a small coffee shop in Tokyo. A red safflower found in the neighborhood streets gave the Aoki’s the inspiration for the restaurant’...
Aoki then sold 49.1% of Benihana Inc. to the public and kept the rest inside his original company. (He tinkered more later: Although Benihana of Tokyo no longer owned U.S. restaurants, Aoki carved out an exception for the rights to manage the Hawaiian restaurant because it was the ...
and RA Sushi restaurants.The company was founded in 1964 on West 56th Street in New York City by 25-year-old Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki.Aoki, a wrestler who had qualified for but did not attend the 1960 Summer Olympics started the restaurant with $10,000 earned from driving an ice cream truck...
Since then, the BENIHANA brand has grown into the leading Japanese-inspired restaurant chain in the United States, accentuating the finest Japanese traditions and culture. A large part of the success of the BENIHANA concept can be attributed to the performance that awaits millions of guests each...
...My experience today reminds me of the poor choice of restaurant I made ten years ago. I guess some things never change. I wonder what experience guests talk about after watching run down chefs cut and dice thawed out shrimp and steak. Don't waste your money ... Go to Tokyo tab...
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 ...