Sushi & More promotes Kishor Arjun Arde to head chef and director
Sushi & More has elevated Kishor Arjun Arde, who joined in 2010, to head chef and director. He will support new-location expansion, oversee multiple kitchens, standardise operations and develop chef training programmes over the next five years.
What happened
Sushi & More promoted Kishor Arjun Arde from junior-chef career progression to head chef and director. He plans to support expansion into new locations, oversee
Key facts
- More than 15 years of culinary experience
- With Sushi & More since 2010
- Visited Japan in 2012
- Next five years
Why this matters
A strengthened chef-led operating structure could make Sushi & More a more credible expansion, partnership or roll-up candidate in food service.
What to watch
- Announcements of new site openings, target geographies or signed lease activity.
- Chef academy, apprenticeship, recruitment or internal promotion initiatives.
- Evidence of central kitchen, procurement, delivery-platform or supplier partnerships.
- Menu simplification, seasonal product development or standardised limited-time offers.
- Rising customer-review consistency across locations and improvement in food-cost or labour-cost indicators.
- Additional senior operations, property or finance hires that signal a formal expansion programme.
- Create standard operating procedures, recipe specifications and kitchen audit routines across existing sites.
- Launch a chef training and internal promotion pipeline to reduce dependence on external specialist hiring.
- Appoint site-level kitchen leads and introduce central reporting on food cost, waste, labour and quality incidents.
- Assess centralised procurement, commissary preparation or supplier consolidation as store count grows.
- Use the strengthened culinary leadership team to support landlord, franchise, partnership or investment discussions for new locations.