OUR STORY
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide delicious, fresh, and wholesome Asian food to satisfy every palate, while also delivering excellence in customer service. Kikka Sushi sets the bar high with an incredible variety of Asian-inspired cuisine, the freshest ingredients and highly-trained chefs that are constantly improving and expanding our products and services.
Our History
Kikka was founded in 1986 by Tonny Soesanto, first as a restaurateur, then as a sushi supplier for markets in the greater Los Angeles Area. Since then, Kikka has grown rapidly throughout the nation to more than thirty states, with a diverse clientele ranging from supermarkets to businesses, restaurants, universities and hospitals.
Tonny received a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he published a paper on fructose, sucrose, and glucose, and perfected his "bear instincts" - catching, cooking and eating fish. He then earned his Masters in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Originally specializing only in sushi, Kikka has since expanded its menu to include a number of other delicious and popular Asian dishes such as Japanese tempura, Chinese noodle bowls, Korean staples like bibimbap, Indonesian and Vietnamese dishes.
Since 1986, Kikka Chefs have perfected the art of sushi making. The quality of Kikka sushi begins with the delicate taste of sushi rice - not too tart or too sweet, but just the perfect blend of sugar, salt and rice vinegar. Top that with our uncompromising belief that Kikka sushi should contain the highest attainable quality of fish, and you have a time-honored recipe for success.
EXCEPTIONAL INGREDIENTS
Kikka stands above all other sushi companies by using fresh, never frozen, tuna in our sushi at Whole Foods Market locations.
Grade-A tuna is hand-selected everyday by our highly trained expert chefs. Each whole tuna is cut and prepared daily, with only the best cuts used in our sushi and poke. In addition, unlike any other sushi company in the United States, Kikka uses next-day shipping directly to our markets across the country in order to maintain the highest quality control standards for each of our valued locations.
Kikka Sushi also sources the best all-natural Salmon, fresh flown in from Iceland and/or Scotland which is then cut and prepared daily at our Central Kitchen, then frozen for safety per FDA rules.
Our all-natural chicken is from local cage-free farms that use no antibiotics or growth hormones. Our grain-fed beef is sourced from the most humane, hormone-free local farms. We pride ourselves on providing delicious products while maintaining a superior environmental track record minimizing waste,
maximizing sustainability and keeping our environmental impact very low.
From our business cards to the trays we package our products in, Kikka is very Eco-conscious. This philosophy extends not only to our food, but to all of our resources. We use only the best, all-natural seafood from companies that emphasize sustainability and responsible environmental stewardship.