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IRVINE, Calif. — Pokeworks is expanding into Canada with four new locations. Slated to open between November 2023 and March 2024, the restaurant locations include: 197 North Queen Street, Etobicoke, Ont. 2435 Appleby Line, Burlington, Ont. 51 Marketplace Avenue, Barrhaven (Ottawa), Ont. Front and Spadina – The Well, Toronto Click the link to read more […]

This month, Eat Up Canada Inc., the Newmarket-based restaurant hospitality firm launched in 2021 by George Heos and Alex Gerzon, opens a Pokeworks quick casual restaurants in Canada.  The location is at 197 North Queen St at The Queensway, across from Sherway Gardens in Etobicoke. Click on the link to continue reading. https://devandchains.com/hawaiian-inspired-in-etobicoke/?swcfpc=1&utm_source=D%26C+Master+List&utm_campaign=6c2477701a-1706_2017_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f2e1830257-6c2477701a-560479546  

Pokeworks is excited to open our very first Canadian location,  brining authentic Hawaiian flavours to Etobicoke. Come and see us at 197 N Queen St. Etobicoke, ON M9C 1A7 (across from Sherway Garden Mall)

George Heos and Alex Gerzon built their Firehouse Subs portfolio to 50 units as area representatives in Ontario, Canada, before selling the business last year, and now the two franchisees want to go even bigger with their next brand. Heos and Gerzon formed Eat Up Canada and signed a master franchise agreement with Pokéworks to […]

For those unfamiliar with the concept, poke is a traditional Hawaiian dish — the term “poke” means to cut in Hawaiian. While the original version of the dish typically consisted of chopped raw fish such as ahi tuna or Hawaiian albacore with rice or whatever ingredients were around at the time, today’s poke bowls are […]