#bay-area-expansion

#bay-area-expansion

The One Group Hospitality, which acquired international teppanyaki chain Benihana last year, has announced plans to open 10 new restaurants throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The hospitality group secured development rights for the restaurants with "an experienced operator," according to a news release, with plans to open two Benihana locations in 2026. Three more future Benihana franchise locations and five Benihana Express (Benihana's new fast-casual concept) locations are slated to open over the next seven years.

The supermarket will debut in Friendship Plaza at 95 Murchison Drive and 135-143 S. El Camino Real, with an opening date scheduled for winter 2026. This is now the third T&T Supermarket in the works in the region, with other spots planned for San Jose's Westgate Center in the first half of 2026 and San Francisco's City Center at the end of 2026.

Recent reports have indicated that Elon Musk's brain-implant startup, Neuralink, has leased a five-story, 144,000-square-foot building in South San Francisco. At the same time, Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is reportedly also looking around for a Bay Area office. The news marks a noticeable step in Musk's expanding presence in the Bay Area, despite the move of his biggest companies, Tesla and SpaceX, to Texas.