Hula Poke Food

What Hula Poke Food does

Hula Poke Food is a Barcelona-based restaurant operator founded in 2017 that runs poke-focused quick-service restaurants, serving consumers seeking customizable Hawaiian-inspired bowl meals. The company offers a product line built around customizable poke bowls alongside starters, with revenue channels spanning in-store dining, takeaway, direct delivery, and event catering. The operating model is conventional QSR: physical location(s) in the Barcelona market, counter-style service, and standard third-party delivery integration to extend reach beyond the dine-in footprint. Scale signals are limited to a headcount band of 11-50 employees and a single disclosed operating city.

Underlying technology inputs are not disclosed in the available data. There is no information on proprietary kitchen systems, digital ordering platforms, loyalty infrastructure, or back-of-house automation — nor any evidence of patents, trademarks, app-based ordering beyond standard delivery aggregators, or branded technology partnerships. The differentiation, if any, is in menu curation and local brand positioning rather than in a defensible technology stack.

The business model is straightforward restaurant economics: per-unit food and beverage sales from bowls and starters, supplemented by delivery order volume and event catering contracts. No pricing model details, transaction data, financing events, ownership structure, or comparable benchmarks were available to validate unit economics, customer mix, or growth posture. The firm's financial position, expansion plans, and investor backing cannot be characterized beyond the public firmographic record.

Name

Hula Poke Food

Website

https://hulapokefood.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hula Poke Food is a Barcelona-based poke restaurant operator founded in 2017, serving individual consumers and event clients with customizable poke bowls, starters, takeaway, delivery, and catering services across its local market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Core offering

Hula Poke Food operates poke restaurants in Barcelona where customers can order customizable poke bowls and starters. The company also provides takeaway and delivery options for off-premise consumption, and offers event catering services for private and corporate occasions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Customizable poke bowls Build-your-own poke bowls allowing customers to choose proteins, bases, toppings, and sauces; served at Hula Poke Food's Barcelona restaurants for dine-in or takeaway.
• Starters Appetizer-style side items offered alongside poke bowls at Hula Poke Food restaurants.
• Takeaway service Counter pickup of poke bowls and starters for off-premise consumption from Hula Poke Food restaurants in Barcelona.
• Delivery service Home or office delivery of poke bowls and starters ordered from Hula Poke Food restaurants.
• Event catering service Off-premise catering of poke bowls and starters for private and corporate events organized by Hula Poke Food in Barcelona.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Sweetgreen: Sweetgreen is a large US healthy fast-casual chain focused on customizable grain bowls and salads; while broader in menu, it competes for the same health-conscious urban customer and is a useful public-market comparable for the category.
• CAVA: CAVA is a US Mediterranean fast-casual chain built on a build-your-own bowl/plate model, comparable to Hula Poke in customizable healthy fast-casual positioning and serves as a relevant scaled-category comparable.
• Tropical Smoothie Cafe: Tropical Smoothie Cafe is a US franchise concept in the healthy fast-casual segment combining smoothies with light food items; relevant as a comparable health-positioned, franchise-driven fast-casual operator adjacent to poke.

Direct peers

• Pokeworks: Pokeworks is a US-headquartered poke chain that pioneered the build-your-own poke concept, serving as a global category leader with similar customizable poke bowl offerings and target customer (health-conscious urban diners).
• Poké House: Poké House is a Spain-based poke restaurant chain operating across Europe with a build-your-own poke bowl concept, directly competing with Hula Poke Food in the same Spanish market with a similar menu and customer base.
• Mr. Poke: Mr. Poke is a Spain-based poke restaurant brand offering build-your-own poke bowls and healthy fast-casual fare, directly comparable to Hula Poke Food in product, customer segment, and Spanish market positioning.
• Aloha Poké: Aloha Poké is a Spanish poke chain offering customizable poke bowls and Hawaiian-inspired dishes; it competes head-to-head with Hula Poke Food in the Spanish market with comparable positioning and price points.

Regional players

• Crisp & Green: Crisp & Green is a US-based poke and healthy bowl chain operating primarily in the Midwest; while geographically distant, it shares the customizable poke/bowl format and healthy fast-casual customer profile with Hula Poke Food.

Emerging players

• Just Salad: Just Salad operates a build-your-own salad and warm bowl concept with reusable bowl loyalty mechanics; overlapping with Hula Poke Food in the customizable healthy fast-casual category and target demographic.
• Freshii: Freshii is a healthy fast-casual franchise offering customizable bowls, salads, and wraps with a build-your-own format; comparable to Hula Poke Food in product architecture and franchise-driven growth model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/HulaPokeFood
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hulapokefood

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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