Hawaiʻi / Restaurant investment & operations
Waikīkī Summer Wind is a Hawaiʻi-based restaurant company. We invest in restaurants, operate a multi-tenant dining venue, and bring Japanese restaurants to the world, led by the United States, with Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia, from the first plan to the daily numbers.
Our approach
Not advisors.
Operators.
We run our own restaurant, so we know the rent, the payroll and the numbers that decide whether a door stays open.
Built to run.
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We take stakes in restaurants and stay with them from opening day through daily operations.
We operate a multi-tenant dining venue in Hawaiʻi, leasing space to restaurant tenants and running the venue as a whole.
We run our own concept under the same roof, facing the same costs, staffing and daily numbers as our tenants.
02 — Opening overseas
USA first,
then the world.
Japanese restaurants are everywhere now, yet most of them have no Japanese cook in the kitchen. Our founder has eaten his way through Japanese restaurants around the world, and the only meals that truly tasted right came from kitchens run by Japanese chefs. So we bring the restaurant itself overseas: its chefs, its recipes and its standards. The United States comes first; Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Asia follow. Planning and financing, site selection, kitchen design, licensing, company formation, visas, sourcing, hiring and marketing: one team carries it all, from the first plan to opening day and beyond. Licensed professionals in each country handle the legal, accounting and immigration filings; we set the order, choose the people and keep every step moving.
In Hawaiʻi, restaurants can also open inside our own venue.
From the first plan to opening day.03
Waikīkī Summer Wind belongs to a group founded in Japan in 2003. The group built a restaurant in Kyoto that earned a Michelin distinction, then sold it. Today we invest in, operate and open restaurants in Hawaiʻi and beyond.
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Investment, partnership, or a restaurant of your own overseas: we would be glad to hear from you. We reply in English or Japanese.
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