Nippon Curry

Nippon Curry is launching a new location in Berkeley, California. We signed a lease to develop a new shop which will occupy an 800+ square foot second-generation storefront at 2512 Bancroft (formerly Ladle & Leaf) right across the street from the Main (Sather Gate) Entrance to the UC Berkeley campus at the intersection of Telegraph and Bancroft. Our new shop is next to a boba tea, Jamba Juice and Chase bank. If you're familiar with Berkeley, you'll know that we could not have secured a better location! We forecast our Berkeley location to post sales figures of about $1.2 million in year 1.

Nippon Curry is offering perks to investors.You earn the most valuable perk available based on your total investment amount in this business. You will not also receive the perks of lesser value, unless specified below.

Nippon Curry T-shirt

Invest $500 or more to qualify.
17 of 20 remaining
Invest $500 and receive an official Nippon Curry T-shirt



Exclusive swag/merchandise AND $50 Nippon Curry gift card

Invest $1,000 or more to qualify.
6 of 10 remaining
Invest $1,000 and receive one exclusive swag/merchandise AND a Nippon Curry gift card for $50



Invitation to Pre-Opening event, swag/merchandise, and $100 gift card

Invest $2,500 or more to qualify.
10 of 10 remaining
Invest $2,500 and receive one exclusive swag/merchandise, a Nippon Curry gift card for $100, and an invitation for you to join our pre-opening event at the new Berkeley shop.



Free curry for one (1) year for one (1) person, swag/merchandise, invitation to pre-opening event

Invest $5,000 or more to qualify.
9 of 10 remaining
Invest $5,000 and receive two (2) exclusive swag/merchandise, free curry for one (1) year for one (1) person*, and an invitation for you and a guest to join our pre-opening event at the Berkeley shop



Private Party for 10

Invest $10,000 or more to qualify.
4 of 5 remaining
Invest $10,000 and we will host a private party for you and up to 10 of your friends at either our Berkeley or San Francisco shop. Exclusive swag/merchandise for all guests.

Thomas Uehara
CEO
Thomas is from San Francisco and went to Japan in 1990 after graduating from University of California, Berkeley. What was supposed to be a one year trip turned into 30+ years. During his time in Japan, he mastered the language and the culture.

Thomas held leadership roles throughout his career and brought solutions to bridge gaps that exist especially in organizations working in a diverse global environment. By possessing a bi-cultural perspective, Thomas excelled at identifying gaps or "opportunities".

Japanese food has seen a wide acceptance around the world in the past few decades with ramen being the recent craze in the U.S. Thomas realized that most popular dishes in Japan were available in the U.S.; however, Japanese curry was not widely known by most people. When people think of curry, they associate it to Indian or Thai, but not Japanese. This "gap" was the starting point of the journey to bring an authentic Japanese curry to the U.S.


Barry Louie
COO
Barry spent his childhood in Hawaii and his formative years in Sacramento. After graduating from University of California, Davis, he moved to Japan in 1994 and spent the next 26 years streamlining operations for Japanese and international organizations in hospitality and travel tech. Barry brings relevant experience from travel tech and online sales to scale an organization for rapid growth.