{"id":8050,"date":"2022-06-06T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:23:46","slug":"bento-asian-kitchen-sushi-opening-first-tampa-location-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/2022\/06\/bento-asian-kitchen-sushi-opening-first-tampa-location-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"BENTO Asian Kitchen + Sushi opening first Tampa location September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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BENTO Asian Kitchen + Sushi is opening their first Tampa location near USF in September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 100-seat, 2,800 square-foot eatery will be located at 5103 East Fowler Avenue across from the new Chipotle, Blaze Pizza, and University of South Florida campus. Fans of the Florida-based chain have long been asking for a location to open in Tampa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOur first BENTO location opened in the small college town of Gainesville 18 years ago in 2002 and was an almost instant hit amongst the University of Florida student crowd. Following that success, we\u2019ve opened in college communities across Florida from UNF Jacksonville to UCF Orlando to FSU Tallahassee to USF St. Pete. Tampa has been one of our highest-requested cities so we were ecstatic to have found a spot that would be easily accessible for USF Tampa students,\u201d says Johnny Tung, co-founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Tampa location will offer plenty of outdoor seating, and will feature BENTO\u2019s signature red sushi bar, warm wood tones, and brass accents reminiscent of modern cafes and lounges found in Japan & Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been eyeing Tampa for a very long time. Being an economic hub in West Florida, and home to a major University as well as several well-established sports teams, we\u2019re thrilled to finally be able to call Tampa our new home. Notably, there\u2019s an amazing emerging food culture that we couldn\u2019t be more excited to be a part of. The Fowler location will certainly not be the last in the area. We\u2019re hoping to open up three more Tampa locations in the near future,\u201d says Tung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BENTO Tampa will mark the concept\u2019s 17th location, and the second in the Tampa Bay area following its downtown St. Petersburg debut in the fall of 2018. It will be joining a lineup of 16 other locations across Florida including restaurants in Orlando, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Davie, Boca Raton, Pembroke Pines, Tallahassee, Kissimmee, Winter Park, and BENTO\u2019s newest location in Oviedo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept has no plans of slowing down with six more locations expected to open within the next year. Stores are planned in Dania Beach, Lake Nona, Wellington, Jacksonville Beach, Downtown Jacksonville, and Sarasota \u2013 all projected to open before 2020 comes to a close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, BENTO has been proactive in adapting its operation to accommodate off-site dining. The launch of BENTO\u2019s new company-wide online ordering site, in particular, is making social distancing a whole lot easier for the brand\u2019s loyal customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new ordering platform allows users to skip the line, schedule an order in advance for pickup or delivery, and pay with just a few clicks. Users also have the option to save their favorite orders, and take advantage of online-exclusive deals. There is also a mobile app version coming soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following this wave, future locations will be featuring a new pick-up window for a more contact-less experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read the full article here BENTO Asian Kitchen + Sushi is opening their first Tampa…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatatbento.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}