Sticks'n'Sushi
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Private | |
Industry | Restaurant |
Genre | Japanese restaurant |
Founded | 1994 |
Founder | Kim Rahbek Hansen, Jens Rahbek Hansen and Thor Andersen |
Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Area served | Copenhagen and London |
Key people | Kim Rahbek Hansen (CEO) |
Website | http://sticksnsushi.com |
Sticks'n'Sushi is a Copenhagen-based restaurant and take-away chain specialising in sushi and yakitori sticks. It consists of 12 restaurants in the Greater Copenhagen area and 7 restaurants in the UK. A restaurant in Berlin opened in 2017.[1]
History
Created by the Danish-Japanese brothers Jens and Kim Rahbek Hansen and their brother-in-law Thor Andersen, the first Sticks'n'Sushi opened on Nansensgade (No. 59) on 22 March 1994. It has been followed by more restaurants in the Greater Copenhagen area.[2]
UK Restaurants
The first Sticks'n'Sushi in London opened on Wimbledon Hill Road in March 2012. In May 2013, the owners raised capital for further expansion abroad through the sale of a 49% share of their company to Maj Invest Equity .[3] The second Sticks'n'Sushi in London opened on Henrietta Street in Covent Garden in October 2013.[4] In 2015, a Sticks'n'Sushi opened in a listed building on the corner of Nelson Road and King William Walk in the heart of Greenwich, close to Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark and Greenwich Park[5] The next opening was at the new Crossrail station in Canary Wharf, here Sticks"n'Sushi served a Japanese Danish fusion breakfast for the 1st time. On the 7th May 2016 Sticks’n’Sushi Cambridge opened its doors. On 24 November 2017 Sticks’n’Sushi opened in Westgate Oxford.[6] The seventh UK restaurant opened in Victoria on 8th Dec 2017.[7]
Other restaurants
In 2017 the company became even more international by opening in Germany. The restaurant was opened in Berlin on Potsdamer Straße.
See also
References
- ↑ "Fra Nansensgade til London og Berlin: Dansk sushiimperium nærmer sig milepæl". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ↑ "Dansk sushi vil indtage London". Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ↑ "Kapitalfond køber halv sushikæde". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ↑ "Danish Sticks'n'Sushi opens in Covent Garden". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (in Danish). Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ↑ "Sticks n Sushi recently opened in Greenwich". Greenwich Hospital (in Danish). Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ↑ Pedersen, Simon Lundby. "STICKS'N'SUSHI TO OPEN IN WESTGATE, OXFORD | Others' News | Home". www.ducc.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ↑ "Sticks'n'Sushi to move into Nova Victoria this month". bighospitality.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-16.