CHARLOTTE, NC – For the 1st time, Hissho Sushi has been named a winner in the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2016 FAST 50.  Congratulations to Philip Maung and the Hissho team.
The Charlotte Business Journal has just recognized the 2016 fastest-growing private companies in our region. This awards program recognizes 50 local companies with outstanding growth, entrepreneurial excellence and leadership.

During the awards dinner posted for Thursday, December 8, 2016 from 5:30pm –8:30pm at the Hilton Charlotte Center City, 222 East Third Street Charlotte NC, 28202, CBJ will reveal the 2016 honoree company rankings based on their percentage of annual growth over a three-year period. The top-ranked companies will also be profiled in a CBJ special report on December 9.

 
Hissho Sushi, headquartered in Charlotte NC, is a thriving sushi and Pan-Asian hot bar franchise which now has over 900 locations in 40 states.  Philip Maung, the CEO, came to the United States from Myanmar in 1989 with only $13 in his pocket, and started his sushi business in 1998.
For more information, http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/event/140262/2016/2016-fast-50-awards, www.hisshosushi.com, or contact Andrea Lee at 704-926-3989 or andrealee@40.87.96.138

To our Hissho friends that attend university, we will have either sushi or hot bar (or both!) in the following locations this fall:

• Babson College | Babson Park, Massachusetts
• Belmont University | Nashville, Tennessee
• Bentley University | Waltham, Massachusetts
• Binghamton University (SUNY) | Binghamton, New York
• Creighton University | Omaha, Nebraska
• Colorado School of Mines | Golden, Colorado
• Fordham University | Bronx, New York, New York
• DePaul University | Chicago, Illinois
• Gardner Webb University | Boiling Springs, North Carolina
• Georgia Regents University | Phoenix, Arizona
• Howard University | Washington, D.C.
• IUPUI | Indianapolis, Indiana
• Kennesaw State University | Kennesaw, Georgia
• Lehigh University | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, California
• Minnesota State University-Mankato | Mankato, Minnesota
• Montgomery College | Rockville, Maryland
• NC A&T | Greensboro, North Carolina
• Plymouth State University | Plymouth, New Hampshire
• Ramapo College | Mahwah, New Jersey
• Radford University | Radford, Virginia
• Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, New York
• South Carolina State University | Orangeburg, South Carolina
• St. Cloud State University | St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Suffolk University | Boston, Massachusetts
• Troy University | Troy, Alabama
• University of Idaho | Moscow, Idaho
• University of Louisville | Louisville, Kentucky
• University of North Alabama | Florence, Alabama
• University of North Carolina-Greensboro | Greensboro, North Carolina
• University of South Carolina | Columbia, South Carolina
• University of Tennessee-Martin | Martin, Tennessee
• University of Texas-El Paso | El Paso, Texas
• University of Texas-Pan American | Edinburg, Texas
• Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, Virginia
• Wake Forest University | Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• William Paterson University | Wayne, New Jersey

Stay in touch for Hissho’s next openings in our non-grocery locations!