St Pierre's Sushi

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St Pierre's Sushi is a New Zealand-based sushi restaurant chain that was established in 1993 as a partnership between New Zealand businessman Nick Katsouli and Yoshiharu Takagi of the Tokyo Mutual Trading Company. [1] [2] By 2023, the chain had 70 stores across New Zealand. [3]

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St Pierre's Sushi originated as a delicatessen and seafood store in Wellington in 1984 run by Nick Katsouli and his two brothers. [2] [4] The restaurant's name St Pierre was derived from the French name for the New Zealand fish John Dory, and also refers to St Peter, the patron saint of fishermen. In 1992, St Pierre's began selling sushi. [2] In 1993 St Pierres's owner Nick Katsouli formed a partnership with the Japanese food exporter, The Tokyo Mutual Trading Company, to obtain cooking condiments and seafood products for producing sushi. [2] [1]

According to academics Rumi Sakamoto and Matthew Allen, St Pierre's provided a template for the emergence of "Kiwi standard sushi" by marketing sushi as a "healthy, value-for-money lunch option able to compete with other ethnic food court options" and hiring Asian staff members who could pass as Japanese. The chain also benefited from changes to New Zealand's immigration legislation in 1987 which saw an increase in Asian immigration. [5]

Between 1993 and 2000, St Pierre's established sushi restaurants in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. [2] By November 2008, St Pierre's had established 28 stores in the major centres of New Zealand. That same month, the sushi chain opened a store in Ponsonby. [1]

By December 2016, St Pierre's had opened a store in New Plymouth, creating 10-12 new jobs. [6] In February 2018, the sushi chain announced plans to open a drive-through restaurant in Auckland by the end of the year. [4] In November 2019, St Pierre's opened a store in Invercargill. [7]

In March 2024, St Pierre's confirmed plans to launch a second drive-through restaurant in Hastings. [8] In November 2024, the sushi chain opened its first store in Dunedin. [9]

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