kamehachi

Name

kamehachi

Legal name

Kamehachi

Website

https://kamehachi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1967

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Japanese Restaurant

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Steakhouses & Seafood Restaurants (THAFACAE)

Keywords

• Japanese sushi restaurant
• Sushi dining
• Catering services
• Private dining events
• Japanese cuisine

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Dine-in Restaurant Sales: Revenue from serving food and beverages to customers at two physical restaurant locations. Customers order from lunch, dinner, happy hour, and beverage menus.
2. Online Ordering/Takeout: Revenue from online food orders placed through ChowNow platform for pickup at Old Town or Northbrook locations.
3. Catering & Private Events: Revenue from catering services including sushi platters, appetizers, salads, noodles, and entrees for delivery. Includes in-home or on-site sushi chef catering services, bento boxes, and private/semi-private dining room rentals.
4. Entertainment Events (BATSU!): Revenue from comedy event tickets for BATSU! shows held in the lounge theatre at Kamehachi Old Town. Food and drink sold separately.
5. Gift Cards: Revenue from sale of gift cards for both Old Town and Northbrook locations through Toasttab platform.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kamehachi operates traditional Japanese sushi restaurants at two Chicago-area locations (Old Town and Northbrook), serving made-to-order sushi, sashimi, grilled seafood, steaks, salads, noodles, and maki offerings. The core dine-in service is supplemented by off-premises catering (including delivery and on-site sushi chef services), private and semi-private dining room rentals for events, online ordering for takeout, and the in-house BATSU! Japanese-style batsu game comedy entertainment concept.

Product overview

Kamehachi is a traditional Japanese sushi restaurant founded in 1967, operating as a single unified dining concept with two physical locations (Chicago Old Town and Northbrook) offering dine-in service. The product portfolio consists of the core dine-in restaurant experience, supplemented by catering services including sushi chef catering for private events, and the BATSU! comedy show entertainment brand. Online ordering functionality enables off-premises dining. All offerings are unified under the Kamehachi brand established by Mrs. Marion Konishi and now owned by her daughter and granddaughter.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BATSU!coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerExtended partnership with BATSU!, a comedy show concept featuring Japanese-style batsu game (punishment comedy) competitions. Shows take place in a lounge theatre within Kamehachi Old Town location. Partnership has expanded to include locations in both Chicago and New York. The partnership provides unique entertainment that complements the dining experience.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Kura Sushi USA: Kura Sushi USA is a technology-enabled, rotating sushi belt and touchscreen-order restaurant concept expanding across the U.S. It targets the same sushi consumer with a contrasting technology-forward, lower-price model, representing an emerging competitive threat in the broader sushi category.

Broad incumbents

• Nobu Restaurants: Nobu is a globally recognized luxury Japanese restaurant and hotel brand with a Chicago location. It represents the high end of the same sushi/Japanese full-service dining category and competes for premium dining and private event spend in the same metro.
• Benihana: Benihana is a long-established, nationally franchised Japanese teppanyaki restaurant chain. It is a broad incumbent in the U.S. Japanese dining category, offering overlapping cuisine and event/private dining capabilities, though its hibachi format differs from Kamehachi's sushi focus.

Regional players

• Wildfire (Chicago Restaurant Partners): Wildfire is a Lettuce Entertain You-owned Chicago steakhouse chain with multiple suburban and city locations. While focused on American steakhouse fare rather than sushi, it competes with Kamehachi for the same Chicago metro special-occasion, private-event, and suburban dining customer.
• Yume Sushi: Yume Sushi is a Chicago-area sushi restaurant known for omakase and innovative rolls. It competes in the same metro as Kamehachi for sushi enthusiasts and is comparable in offering a premium sushi-focused dine-in experience to local consumers.

Direct peers

• RA Sushi Bar Restaurant: RA Sushi is a multi-unit sushi bar chain operating across the U.S. with a similar dine-in plus takeout model. It competes for the casual sushi consumer with the same combination of in-restaurant dining and online ordering that Kamehachi offers.
• Momotaro: Momotaro is a modern Japanese restaurant in Chicago's West Loop by Boka Restaurant Group, serving sushi, sashimi, robatayaki, and Japanese-inspired fare. It directly competes with Kamehachi for the Chicago full-service Japanese dining customer.
• Roka Akor: Roka Akor is a Japanese robatayaki and sushi restaurant with a location in Chicago's Fulton Market. It competes directly with Kamehachi for upscale Japanese/sushi diners in the Chicago market, offering a comparable full-service sushi experience with premium positioning.
• Blue Sushi Sake Grill: Blue Sushi Sake Grill is a multi-unit sustainable sushi restaurant chain offering full-service sushi, sake, and Japanese cuisine. It is comparable to Kamehachi in product (sushi, sashimi, sake) and dine-in service model, though at broader geographic scale.
• Sushi-San: Sushi-San is a Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Japanese sushi restaurant in Chicago's River North neighborhood. It targets the same dine-in sushi customer as Kamehachi with a comparable casual-to-premium service model in the Chicago market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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