Yo! Sushi plans more openings
Conveyor-belt sushi group Yo! Sushi is to open two new restaurants in central London later this year.
It is taking over the former Mychi restaurant in the 76-bedroom Myhotel, off Tottenham Court Road, and moving into a 10,000sq ft site in Clerkenwell. Both restaurants should open this summer.
Yo! Sushi will rent the Myhotel restaurant from the hotel's owners and convert it into a 70-seat sushi bar.
Simon Woodroffe, managing director of Yo! Sushi, said the Mychi restaurant had been doing "OK" but added: "They just wanted something exciting in there."
The Clerkenwell restaurant will also feature the second of the chain's bars, dubbed Yo! Below. The company will move its head office to the site and also run its event catering and sushi delivery service from there. This would make it easier to deliver to offices in the City of London, said Woodroffe.
The new openings will take the number of Yo! Sushi restaurants to eight.
Woodroffe added: "We'll probably do another three before the end of the year and we've got some overseas stuff we'll be announcing quite soon."
Australia and the USA are targets, as is Manchester in the UK.
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