GoGo Curry opens first Hawaii location, selling classic katsu curry for $14.95
There will also be an opening campaign where customers who order a Home Run Combo will receive a miniature GoGo Curry charm as a gift.
GoGoCurry Group Co., Ltd.
GoGo Curry Group Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture; CEO and President: Nishihata Makoto; hereinafter "GoGo Curry") has announced that it will open its first store in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, on September 20th to commemorate its 20th anniversary. The new store is located in the food court of the Japanese supermarket "Mitsuwa Marketplace" on the second floor of the commercial facility "International Marketplace" located in the heart of Waikiki, and both eat-in and take-out are available. Open every day from 10:55 am to 8:55 pm, the store will sell Kanazawa Curry's standard menu item "Katsu Curry" and other dishes for $14.95.
As part of the opening campaign, customers who order a Home Run Combo will receive a limited number of Gashapon® containing "GoGo Curry Miniature Charms," which are miniature versions of GoGo Curry's menu items and signs.
*"Gashapon" is a registered trademark of Bandai Co., Ltd.
Images are for illustrative purposes only. Prices exclude tax (local prices at the time of opening on September 20, 2024)
The opening menu features Go Go Curry with toppings such as pork cutlet, chicken cutlet, fried shrimp, sausage, boiled egg, and cheese. Other toppings include Katsu Curry (chicken or pork cutlet) for $14.95, and combo menus such as Home Run (chicken or pork cutlet, sausage, fried shrimp, boiled egg) for $18.95, Grand Slam (chicken and pork cutlets, sausage, fried shrimp, boiled egg) for $33.95, and World Champion (chicken and pork cutlets, sausage, fried shrimp, boiled egg) for $46.95.
Go! Go! Curry, which revamped its management structure last year, has fully launched its global strategy, and is currently expanding in the United States and Indonesia in addition to Japan. Katsu curry has been a popular "washoku" (traditional Japanese food) for several years now, and is spreading overseas as a representative Japanese dish.
*Source: TasteAtlas "Best Dishes of the World in 2022"
https://twitter.com/TasteAtlas/status/1606269629571035136
Tomoya Tanaka, general manager of the Go! Go! Curry Group's overseas business division, said, "We are pleased to open our first store in Hawaii to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Go! Go ! Curry's founding. Kanazawa curry is characterized by our " 3C magic," a mixture of thick, rich curry, cutlet, and cabbage served on a stainless steel plate. We brought the roux from Japan and are particular about the ingredients we procure locally, recreating the taste of Japanese Go! Go! Curry. In the future, we will develop Hawaii-exclusive menus and aim to create a store that is loved by both tourists and locals."
In addition to the US and Indonesia, Go!Go! Curry has expanded overseas, serving dishes such as katsu curry at a restaurant in the Japan Expo, a Japanese culture festival held in the suburbs of Paris in July. "There was such a great response that there were long lines every day (during the event) and we ran out of plates, which has given Go!Go! Curry momentum for expanding overseas," says Tanaka, expressing his enthusiasm for the global strategy.
GoGoCurry Group Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2003, the company opened its first store in Shinjuku, Tokyo in 2004 and its main store in Kanazawa in 2005, sparking the "Kanazawa curry boom." Since 2017, the company has focused on business succession-type M&A, taking over the operations of Kanazawa's long-established Indian curry restaurant "Hot House" and in 2019, the original Kanazawa curry restaurant "Turban Curry." In January 2023, the company moved its headquarters from Tokyo to Kanazawa, and in 2024, Kanazawa GoGo Curry Stadium, also known as "Go-Sta," opened. The GoGo Curry Group aims to be "the world's number one curry specialty trading company" and has stores both in Japan and overseas.