[G-FACTORY Co., Ltd.] [ITO GRAND] Communicating the charm of the region through “food”! Launch of “Itoshima Vegetable Salad Bar” *G-FACTORY Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 11, 2024
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[ITO GRAND] Communicating the charm of the region through “food”! Launch of “Itoshima Vegetable Salad Bar”
*Available from Wednesday, September 11th. You can eat to your heart’s content Itoshima vegetables that are attracting attention from top chefs! *
Promoting the charm of Itoshima with an all-you-can-eat salad bar of Itoshima vegetables
ITO, the food and beverage building of Ito Lab , a new base that aims to create new industries and new businesses through industry-academia collaboration
GRAND” will be promoting the appeal of Itoshima vegetables starting Wednesday, September 11th, in order to help create new industries and revitalize the region.
For this purpose, we will start offering a salad bar at lunchtime! “ITO GRAND” conveys the charm of the region through “food”
Surrounded by the sea and mountains, Itoshima is rich in nature and produces a variety of ingredients such as vegetables, meat, and fish of such high quality that they are selected by top-class restaurants, including Michelin-starred restaurants and famous restaurants in Tokyo. In particular, many of Itoshima’s vegetables are safe and secure, grown without pesticides, and have become a brand because they allow you to enjoy the natural taste of the ingredients.
Itoshima is also a popular area where many tourists visit for its carefully selected ingredients and sightseeing spots that have increased mainly along the coast. ITO is one of the routes leading to the center of Itoshima tourism.
GRAND is located.
Also, ITO
GRAND offers a menu centered on ingredients from Itoshima as part of the local production for local consumption initiative, as well as dance and music events in collaboration with the local community, and a Kyushu University Fair that uses ingredients grown at the Kyushu University Faculty of Agriculture farm. We have been working hard to revitalize the region.
In order to contribute to further* regional revitalization* and *disseminating the appeal of Itoshima-produced ingredients*, we have decided to offer Itoshima vegetables at the salad bar during lunchtime. ITO
For an additional 300 yen on the lunch menu at each GRAND store, you can fully enjoy Itoshima vegetables approved by top chefs. By offering it at lunchtime, when many locals visit, not just tourists, we will spread the appeal of Itoshima vegetables to people both inside and outside of Fukuoka City and the Itoshima area.
* ＼Convey the charm of Itoshima ingredients through local production for local consumption! All-you-can-eat Itoshima vegetable salad bar/* At lunchtime only, we are now offering a *salad bar* using *Itoshima vegetables*!
For an additional 300 yen on the regular lunch menu, you can enjoy all-you-can-eat seasonal Itoshima vegetables!
Itoshima vegetables are cultivated in a limited area in the Itoshima region, and are nurtured in its rich natural environment. With the slogan “Made in Itoshima,” this is a rare local ingredient filled with the pride and commitment of the farmers who produce it.
Since the vegetables are freshly harvested locally, we can provide them with *super freshness* and *high nutritional value*.
* Itoshima vegetable all-you-can-eat salad bar details *
Start date: Wednesday, September 11th
Price: Lunch menu 300 yen (tax included)
Target: Those who order the lunch menu at ITO GRAND stores
Contents: Salad bar with freshly harvested Itoshima vegetables *6 types of dressings selected by each store (RODEO &
cafe/Italian dressing, bowl/vegetable dressing, rice bowl/Japanese dressing, STELLA/Caesar dressing, snow flower/Korean dressing, VIT/Thai dressing)
＼To spread more charm! We are recruiting producers of Itoshima vegetables and Itoshima ingredients/
At ITO GRAND, including this salad bar initiative, we are trying to spread awareness about Itoshima ingredients such as Itoshima vegetables.*
We are looking for producers of Itoshima vegetables and Itoshima ingredients! If you know something like, “I grow vegetables in Itoshima!” “I raise Itoshima beef or Itoshima pigs!” or “I know someone who is a farmer in Itoshima!”, please contact me.
*About ITO GRAND*
* Wine cellar with an impressive 3,000 bottles of wine ordered from all over the world *
Food hall (1st floor) with 8 types of restaurants, including Italian, Japanese, Thai, and Korean cuisine, with a total area of 544 square meters*
ITO SKY, one of the largest rooftops in Japan*
This is a restaurant facility consisting of (9 business types in total). We are working hard to revitalize the region from the perspective of food, such as by holding events and fairs in
collaboration with local residents and Kyushu University students. In addition to vegetables, seafood, and meat from Itoshima, we serve dishes that bring out the flavor of local ingredients, such as local Fukuoka brand beef “Hakata beef.”
* “overview”*
Location: 5-2 Kyudaishinmachi, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture Business hours: 11:00-23:00
Access: 1 minute walk from bus “Industry-Academia Collaboration Exchange Center” Approximately 6 minutes by car (approximately 3.6 km) from JR Chikuhi Line “Kyudai Kentoshi Station”
Approximately 9 minutes by car (approximately 5.7 km) from
Nishi-Kyushu Expressway “Imajuku IC”
Number of shared parking spaces: 430 spaces
U R L: https://itogrand.com
*For inquiries and reservations for each store, please check the URL above.
* About Ito Lab (Ito Lab Plus) *
This is a complex facility that aims to form a research and
development base where new industries and new businesses will be born one after another through industry-academia collaboration. The research and development building, which houses rental laboratories and rental offices, is the main building, as well as the Kyudai Ito retail store, which supports daily research and development
activities.
It will be a city-like facility consisting of “Tsutaya Bookstore”, restaurants, rental apartments, etc.
URL: https://www.itolabplus.com/
* ■“ITO GRAND” operating company: G-FACTORY Co., Ltd.*
Head office: 33rd floor, Shinjuku Center Building, 1-25-1
Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Masayuki Katahira, President and CEO
Established: May 20, 2003
Capital 51,307,500 yen (capital reserve 336,585,120 yen)
Market: Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market (Securities Code 3474) URL https://g-fac.jp/
* ■Inquiries regarding this matter*
G-FACTORY Co., Ltd.
Department in charge: Management Headquarters
TEL: 03-5325-6868 mail: info@g-fac.jp