Standing Sushi Bar Explained

Standing Sushi Bar
Established:	August 2009
Food-Type:	Japanese cuisine, sushi
Other-Information:	Fast food restaurant

Standing Sushi Bar is a Japanese-food restaurant chain in Singapore and Indonesia. It was started in August 2009 with its first outlet in Raffles Place. The company was founded by Howard Lo.^[1]

Standing Sushi Bar presently has 3 outlets. The restaurant at 8Q SAM opened in September 2010, Marina Bay Link Mall opened in November 2010, and the first branch in Indonesia opened at La Piazza, Jakarta on January 15, 2012. The original Raffles Place branch closed in April 2011.

The restaurant has been cited for its novel use of social media, and it was one of the first in Singapore to offer Foursquare promotions.^[2]

Accolades

In March 2010, Standing Sushi Bar was voted #1 sushi in Singapore by the Hungrygowhere community.^[3]

In popular culture

In April 2011, Standing Sushi Bar created sushi rolls based on two of the most-talked about candidates (Nicole Seah and Tin Pei Ling) during Singapore's general election.^[4]

See also

• List of sushi restaurants

External links

• • Company blog

Notes and References

1. Web site: Getting on the salad train . The Business Times . January 4, 2014 . 14 February 2014 . Yong, Debbie.
2. Web site: Firms' novel use of location-based tool. My Paper. 2012-04-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20120412081655/http://business.asiaone.com/Business/SME%2BCentral/Tete-A-Tech/Story/A1Story20100219-199587.html. 2012-04-12. dead.
3. Web site: Singapore's Top 10 Sushi. Hungrygowhere. 2012-04-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20110411221655/http://www.hungrygowhere.com/top10/Sushi/. 2011-04-11. dead.
4. Web site: Eat the Nicole Seah Sushi Roll at this sushi bar. My Paper.