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((short description|British chain of East Asian-inspired restaurants))
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((Infobox company
| name = itsu
| logo = [[File:itsu logo.svg|180px]]
| type = [[Private company limited by shares|Private]]
| industry = [[Fast casual restaurant]]
| foundation = 1997
| founder = [[Julian Metcalfe]]
| location = [[London]], England, UK
| locations = 77<ref>((Cite web |title=itsu story |url=https://www.itsu.com/itsustory/ |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=itsu |language=en-GB |archive-date=11 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711100056/https://www.itsu.com/itsustory/ |url-status=live ))</ref>
| key_people = [[Clive Schlee]]
| products = [[Food]]
| num_employees = 852 (2020)<ref>((cite web |title=Annual report and financial statements for the period ended 31 December 2020 |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03286342/filing-history/MzMzMTgyODM2OWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0 |website=[[Companies House]] |publisher=itsu Limited |access-date=8 June 2022 |page=34 |date=4 Mar 2022 |format=PDF))</ref>
| homepage = ((URL|https://www.itsu.com))
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'''itsu''' is a British chain of [[East Asia|East Asian]]-inspired fast food shops and restaurants and a grocery company.<ref name="ft.com2">Moules, Jonathan. [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c5e2dc4-81be-11e3-a600-00144feab7de.html "itsu founder nurtures a new generation"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125043951/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c5e2dc4-81be-11e3-a600-00144feab7de.html |date=25 January 2014 )), ''[[Financial Times]]'', London, 21 January 2014. Retrieved on 21 January 2014.</ref> The company offers [[Franchising|franchises]].<ref>((cite web | title=franchising | website=itsu | date=5 April 2022 | url=https://www.itsu.com/franchising/ | access-date=26 February 2023 | archive-date=26 February 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230226231949/https://www.itsu.com/franchising/ | url-status=live ))</ref>

== History ==
The chain was founded by [[Julian Metcalfe]], co-founder of sandwich chain [[Pret a Manger]], in partnership with [[Clive Schlee]].<ref name="guardian.co.uk2">((cite news |last=Smithers |first=Rebecca |date=8 October 2010 |title=Pret A Manger chief is stacking up healthy profits in lean times |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/08/clive-schlee-pret-a-manger-interview |access-date=24 April 2013 |archive-date=4 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104210714/http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/08/clive-schlee-pret-a-manger-interview |url-status=live ))</ref>

In 2006, following the [[poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko]], traces of the deadly isotope [[Polonium-210]] were found at the [[Piccadilly]] branch of Itsu in London, where Litvinenko had dined on the day he was poisoned.<ref name="guardian20160306">((Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/alexander-litvinenko-and-the-most-radioactive-towel-in-history|title=Alexander Litvinenko and the most radioactive towel in history|last=Harding|first=Luke|date=6 March 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=21 July 2023))</ref><ref name="independent_kovtun">(( cite news
 |title       = Litvinenko's associate 'in a coma' as spy murder mystery deepens
 |work        = The Independent
 |date        = 8 December 2006
|url         = http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2055590.ece
 |access-date  = 21 July 2023
|location    = London
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 |last1       = Milmo
 |first2      = Andrew
 |last2       = Osborn
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))</ref>

==Outlets and expansion==
[[File:itsu,_Commercial_Street,_Leeds_(29th_March_2018).jpg|right|thumb|itsu, Commercial Street, [[Leeds]]]]
The first itsu restaurant opened in [[Chelsea, London]] in 1997. In September 2013, itsu opened its first restaurant outside London, in [[Oxford]].<ref>((cite news |date=5 Sep 2013 |title=£1m itsu restaurant to open in Oxford |language=en |work=[[Oxford Mail]] |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10654522.1m-itsu-restaurant-to-open-in-oxford/ |access-date=8 June 2022 |archive-date=11 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111231450/https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10654522.1m-itsu-restaurant-to-open-in-oxford/ |url-status=live ))</ref>

In January 2016, itsu opened its first [[Northern England]] restaurant, in [[Spinningfields]], central [[Manchester]].<ref>((cite news |author=Shelina Begum |date=10 December 2015 |title=itsu picks Spinningfields for Manchester opening |newspaper=[[Manchester Evening News]] |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/itsu-picks-spinningfields-manchester-opening-10577025 |access-date=18 January 2016 |archive-date=4 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704204450/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/itsu-picks-spinningfields-manchester-opening-10577025 |url-status=live ))</ref> The chain later opened a branch in [[Leeds]].

((As of|2022)) itsu had 76 restaurants in England, including 54 in London (44 in February 2023), and one in [[Brussels Airport]], Belgium.<ref>((Cite web |title=itsu locations |url=https://www.itsu.com/locations |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=itsu |language=en-GB |archive-date=11 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711100108/https://www.itsu.com/locations/ |url-status=live ))</ref>

In June 2018, the company opened a branch in [[Midtown Manhattan]], [[New York City]], US.<ref>((cite news |last1=Dai |first1=Serena |date=4 June 2018 |title=Pret Founder's Asian Grab-and-Go Chain itsu Just Dropped Into Midtown |language=en |work=[[Eater (website)|Eater]] |url=https://ny.eater.com/2018/6/4/17425238/itsu-nyc-midtown-open-chain-pret |access-date=8 June 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517232839/https://ny.eater.com/2018/6/4/17425238/itsu-nyc-midtown-open-chain-pret |url-status=live ))</ref> In February 2023 itsu's Web site listed Brussels and Paris as the only non-UK locations; the [http://www.itsu.com/us US Web page] was dead.

==itsu [grocery]==
In March 2012, [[Metcalfe's Food Company]], run by [[Robert Jakobi]], launched the itsu brand into retail<ref name="thegrocer.co.uk2">Vince Bamford, [http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/fmcg/itsu-to-target-retailers-with-new-asian-snacks/218550.article "itsu to target retailers with new Asian snacks"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222051311/http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/fmcg/Itsu-to-target-retailers-with-new-asian-snacks/218550.article |date=22 February 2014 )) The Grocer, June 2011</ref> under the name itsu [grocery].

==Partnerships==
In January 2014, itsu became the official partner of the [[Volleyball England]] Beach Tour,<ref>Charlotte Edwardes, [https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/mr-itsu-julian-metcalfe-on-beautiful-lean-cuisine-why-he-loves-londons-hardworking-immigrants-and-his-noisy-troupe-of-children-and-steps-9103949.html "Mr itsu: Julian Metcalfe on beautiful lean cuisine, why he loves London's hard-working immigrants and his noisy troupe of children and steps] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330023205/http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/mr-itsu-julian-metcalfe-on-beautiful-lean-cuisine-why-he-loves-londons-hardworking-immigrants-and-his-noisy-troupe-of-children-and-steps-9103949.html |date=30 March 2015 )), "London Evening Standard", 3 February 2014</ref> but was not listed on the UKBT Web site as of 2021.<ref>((cite web | title=UKBT Partners| website=UK Beach Tour | url=https://www.ukbeachtour.com/partners|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902160850/https://www.ukbeachtour.com/partners|archive-date=2 September 2021| access-date=26 February 2023))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.itsu.com/ Official website]
* [https://www.itsu.com/grocery/ itsu Grocery website]


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