Wabi Sabi LLC

What Wabi Sabi LLC does

Wabi Sabi LLC operates a single-location restaurant and lounge at 29 Bollingbrook Street in Old Towne Petersburg, Virginia, founded in 2008. The venue spans two floors: an upper dining room serving fresh sushi and craft cocktails, and a lower lounge hosting live entertainment, late-night programming, and ticketed events. The company is a privately held LLC with 27 employees and no disclosed external investment or multi-unit expansion.

The revenue model is direct-to-consumer and diversified across five streams: dine-in food and beverage service, takeout orders routed through the SkyTab online ordering platform, ticketed event sales distributed via Eventbrite (including $19 drag brunches and sushi-making classes), private event hosting for groups of eight or more, and recurring promotional sales such as daily happy hour specials (e.g., $7 martinis, $12 weekday lunch specials). The technology stack consists of commercial third-party tools, including SkyTab for takeout, Shift4Payments for reservations, Eventbrite for event ticketing, and Zeffy for processing community fundraiser orders. There is no proprietary technology or AI/ML capability described.

The business serves four identifiable customer segments: local diners and nightlife seekers visiting the lounge and dining room, private event bookers (corporate and personal), community organizations such as the Impact Rotary Club and Petersburg Public Schools hosting fundraisers at the venue, and casual lunch customers drawn by weekday specials. Pricing is transparently published, transaction sizes are small (sub-$20 for individual tickets and menu items), and the customer base is highly fragmented with no recurring enterprise anchor clients. The competitive position rests on 17 years of continuous operation, a niche two-floor food-and-entertainment format within the Old Towne Petersburg submarket, and recurring community partnerships rather than scalable proprietary assets.

Name

Wabi Sabi LLC

Legal name

Wabi Sabi LLC

Website

https://eatwabisabi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wabi Sabi LLC operates a single-location sushi restaurant and lounge in Old Towne Petersburg, Virginia, combining fresh sushi, craft cocktails, and live entertainment. Founded in 2008, it serves local diners, private event bookers, and community groups through dine-in and ticketed events.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Petersburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Dine-in Food and Beverage Sales: Core revenue from serving fresh sushi, cocktails, and prepared entrées to dine-in customers. The restaurant operates as a full-service establishment with lunch specials ($12), dinner service, and signature menu items including sushi rolls, martinis, and composed entrées.
2. Takeout and To-Go Orders: Revenue from customers ordering ahead for pickup through the SkyTab online ordering platform. Offers the full menu for takeout including sushi, appetizers, and entrées.
3. Event Ticketing: Revenue from ticketed experiences including drag brunches ($19), sushi-making classes, live music events, and comedy nights. Tickets sold through Eventbrite platform.
4. Private Event Hosting: Revenue from hosting private parties, corporate events, fundraisers, rehearsal dinners, and restaurant buyouts. Minimum eight guests required for private event bookings.
5. Happy Hour and Promotional Sales: Revenue from daily happy hour specials (Monday-Friday 11AM-7PM), Martini Monday ($7 martinis), Sushi Tuesday ($1 off rolls), and Jazz Wednesday drink specials. Drives foot traffic during off-peak hours.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Wabi Sabi LLC operates a single-location sushi restaurant and lounge in Old Towne Petersburg, Virginia, serving fresh handcrafted sushi, signature cocktails and martinis, and prepared entrées across lunch and dinner service. The two-level venue combines an upstairs dining experience with a downstairs lounge offering live jazz, acoustic music, comedy nights, and drag brunches. The business also hosts ticketed sushi-rolling classes, private events, and community fundraisers, with takeout available through an online ordering platform.

Product overview

Wabi Sabi is a single-location restaurant and lounge offering a unified dining and entertainment experience. The core offering centers on fresh sushi and craft cocktails as the primary food and beverage products, complemented by live music events, comedy nights, drag brunches, and sushi rolling classes as entertainment offerings. The venue also provides private event hosting services for various occasions. Lunch specials and happy hour programs operate as promotional add-ons within the same establishment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fresh Sushi and Japanese-Inspired Entrées

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Impact Rotary ClubminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWabi Sabi partners with the Impact Rotary Club to host fundraising events supporting Petersburg Public Schools students. The restaurant serves as the pickup location for fundraiser items and supports community awareness campaigns through venue hosting and event coordination.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Benihana: National Japanese teppanyaki restaurant chain with strong experiential dining positioning. Comparable because it sells Japanese cuisine as an experiential night out, similar to how Wabi Sabi positions sushi + entertainment as an evening experience.
• Dave & Buster's: National eatertainment chain combining dining with entertainment venues. Comparable as a scaled, publicly-traded reference point for combining food/beverage with live entertainment-driven foot traffic and group events.
• P.F. Chang's: Large national Asian casual dining chain. Comparable as an established incumbent in Asian-inspired full-service dining, competing for similar dinner occasion spend, though Wabi Sabi operates at a more localized, upscale-sushi level.
• House of Blues: National live music venue and restaurant chain. Comparable because it combines dining with live entertainment programming under one roof, mirroring Wabi Sabi's upstairs-dining/downstairs-lounge model.
• Hard Rock Cafe: Iconic restaurant and live music venue brand. Comparable as an established dining-plus-entertainment destination concept, operating at a much larger scale but pursuing the same combined food, drink, and live music proposition.

Emerging players

• Bowlero / Lucky Strike Entertainment: Multi-concept entertainment and dining venues with private event capabilities. Comparable for the food+entertainment+private event bundle model, though anchored on bowling rather than live music.

Direct peers

• Punch Bowl Social: Multi-unit dining and entertainment concept combining food, drinks, and programming under one roof. Comparable because it targets the same night-out use case combining casual dining with entertainment events and private party hosting.
• RA Sushi: Multi-unit Asian/sushi bar chain offering sushi, cocktails, and a vibrant lounge atmosphere. Comparable because it competes on the same sushi + cocktails + nightlife proposition as Wabi Sabi, with broader geographic reach.
• The Melting Pot: Fondue restaurant chain with strong private event hosting. Comparable for the full-service dining + private dining/buyout orientation, with a similar emphasis on experiential, occasion-driven dining.
• Kura Revolving Sushi Bar: Japanese sushi chain with experiential dining concept. Comparable as a direct sushi-focused competitor pursuing a differentiated, experience-led model in the same core category as Wabi Sabi's fresh sushi offering.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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