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Company History: Benihana, Inc.

Company Perspectives:
Our restaurants are a place to meet new friends, celebrate special occasions or just to enjoy an entertaining meal in our communal dining style while being thoroughly entertained by your own personal chef. Highly skilled teppanyaki chefs slice and dice, toss and shake your meal in such a way as to "eatertain" you while enjoying traditional Japanese cooking using American favorites like steak, chicken, seafood and vegetables. Benihana pioneered the communal dining concept in the early 1960's where up to eight people are seated around a steel hibachi grill waiting anxiously for their personal show to begin. Currently, Benihana holds the record for the longest running dinner show in the world.
Key Dates:
• 1964: The first Benihana of Tokyo restaurant opens.
• 1968: Benihana enters the Chicago market.
• 1982: Benihana of Tokyo (BOT) forms Benihana National Corporation (BNC).
• 1983: BNC goes public.
• 1984: Benihana National Classics, a line of Chinese gourmet frozen foods, is introduced in supermarkets.
• 1994: The company enters into a licensing agreement with Campbell Soup to launch a line of frozen stir-fry kits featuring the Benihana trademark.
• 1995: BNC buys Aoki's 21 Benihana of Tokyo restaurants on the U.S. mainland and the U.S. rights to the Benihana trademark; Benihana, Inc., is created as part of the corporate restructuring.
• 1997: Nine teppanyaki restaurants are acquired from Rudy's Restaurant Group Inc.
• 1999: The company purchases the Haru Sushi restaurants.
• 2002: Benihana adds the RA Sushi Bar and Restaurant chain to its holdings.
Incorporated: 1964 as Benihana of Tokyo
NAIC: 722110 Full-Service Restaurants
Benihana, Inc., operates as one of the largest chains of Asian restaurants in the United States. Benihana restaurants specialize in an exhibition-style of...