industry fast food founded 1979 calgary alberta founder reverend susumu ikuta headquarters calgary alberta canada number of locations over 105 2014 1 in canada united states california and new mexico key people tom donaldson president & ceo products fast food website edojapan.com edo japan is a canadian fast food chain specializing in japanese traditional teppanyaki style cooking . its head offices are located in calgary alberta canada . contents 1 history 2 expansion and growth 3 references 4 external links history edit founded by reverend susumu ikuta in 1979 edo japan was designed to bring fresh and healthy japanese teppanyaki style cooking to suburban shopping centres and food courts across canada . the first store opened in calgary at southcentre mall . expansion and growth edit competing against predominantly burgers subs pizza and fried chicken establishments the teppanyaki style concept grew in popularity with its customers as it offered an alternative to north american cuisine . in 1986 ikuta switched from a mom and pop operation to offering franchises of his company . in 1998 he felt he needed to find someone to run his business . in 1999 sales were 10 million ; at the close of last year they had topped 24.5 million . that year tom donaldson was hired to run the company . in 2003 ikuta wanting to retire agreed to sell the company to donaldson . 2 with locations in alberta british columbia and saskatchewan the company started targeting the united states and eastern canadian markets . 3 not wanting to be limited to shopping centers the company slowly introduced it street front restaurants . references edit calgary based edo japan closing in on 100 million annual sales donaldson takes over calgary based edo japan alumnus believes in good food first alumni university of calgary external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title edo japan restaurant & oldid 690708862 categories fast food chains of canadarestaurant chains in canadacanadian brandscompanies based in calgary navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 november 2015 at 03 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view