itsu serves Asian-inspired healthy dishes and is a unique retail/restaurant brand based on a groundbreaking formula, ideally suited to franchising & partnerships.
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Created in 1997 by Pret A Manger founder Julian Metcalfe, itsu is a unique retail/restaurant brand based on a groundbreaking formula, ideally suited to franchising & partnerships. itsu serves Asian-inspired healthy dishes at lightning speed.
Much healthier than traditional fast food, the company offers exceptional quality & value across 74 UK sites, supported by a fast-growing delivery & grocery business.
Franchise model
itsu [meaning ‘whenever’ in Japanese] is uniquely placed being a healthy take-away and dine-in restaurant offering hot and cold food, day and night, at lightning speed. itsu combines a high number of transactions with a mid-market ATV, making it the perfect partnership model with high gross profit, simple operations, affordable CapEx & handsome return on capital.
In addition to our growing high-street shops & restaurants, we are building the fastest growing Asian-inspired grocery brand in the UK to support our restaurants. itsu [grocery] creates restaurant-quality products that are new & different: butterfly light snacks, miso’easy, brilliant’broths, frozen gyoza and bao’buns, rice’noodle pots & more on the way
Franchise support
- compliance, how-to & menu investment
- operational investment
- brand & marketing support
- people & culture investment
- research & development investment
- sourcing & sustainability investment
- IT & property investment
