San Antonio is about to welcome a significant growth of Pokeworks, a quickly rising poke restaurant chain from California. A brand new franchise deal will carry 10 places of the favored Hawaiian bowl eatery to Alamo Metropolis inside two years, marking the primary Pokeworks storefronts within the space.
Motivated by a shared love of Hawaiian flavors, a gaggle of mates based Pokeworks in 2015. Like related chains, it focuses on build-your-own rice bowls and salads custom-made with sustainable seafood and toppings like seaweed, edamame, and sesame seeds. The elements may also be stuffed inside a classy poke burrito.
Along with the uncooked fish dishes, the restaurant serves scorching plates like charred teriyaki salmon and barbecued huli huli rooster. The plates include sides like furikake macaroni salad and may be beefed up with add-ons like garlic Spam musubi.
Based on a press launch, the places might be run by former Olympic swimmer Agustin Guzman. The entrepreneur can be creating a number of outposts within the Rio Grande Valley.
“I’ve skilled success throughout various industries, however what units Pokeworks aside is their momentum — it is a high-performing model that is continually enhancing, innovating, and rising,” stated Guzman, by way of the discharge.
Pokeworks operates nearly 70 places unfold all through the USA, Taiwan, and Canada, with plans to broaden to Mexico. Its present development trajectory will nearly double the variety of shops.
The chain has put down Texas roots in Houston, Dallas, and El Paso, however the closest Pokeworks to San Antonio are at present within the Austin space. The press launch didn’t share which areas of the town the enterprise is focusing on.
