Owner of Shokudo, Buho y Cocina, Bread & Butter - Hide Sakurai, Honolulu restaurateur debuted Shokudo in 2005, Búho Cocina y Cantina in 2014, and Bread and Butter within a year of that.
Born in Tokyo, Sakurai worked in restaurants throughout high school and college. His big break was not earning the law degree he was studying for, but rather was working his way up the ranks of TGI Fridays, where he began bartending in Shibuya, then graduated to managing the chain’s Shibuya and Ginza locations, and then rose to general manager of TGI Fridays Japan.
In fact, Sakurai so impressed the CEO of TGI Fridays Japan, Tetsuya Emura, that the two partnered to start their own empire.
They zeroed in on Hawai‘i, with its developed Japanese community and what Sakurai calls a “rice culture”-a large consumption of and love for rice. This is where they would start their first venture.
Sakurai shares the beginnings of Shokudo and where he sees the future.
www.shokudojapanese.com
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28 авг 2024
