Hai Hospitality

About Hai Hospitality

Hai Hospitality is a real estate operator headquartered in Ste C - Austin, Texas.

Hai Hospitality is a private restaurant development group founded in 2003 by James Beard–award-winning chef Tyson Cole. It oversees roughly 295 employees and generates approximately $56.8 million in annual revenue. The group operates four distinct restaurant concepts—Uchi, Uchiko, Uchibā, and Loro—spanning multiple U.S. markets. As of early 2025, it runs 12 Uchi locations, including a newly opened Uchiko in Miami Beach, plus six Loro Asian Smokehouse & Bar venues. Hai Hospitality focuses its real estate development on full-service restaurant properties, with recent expansion into a new 9,000-square-foot Uchiko site in Bethesda, Maryland. The organization supports each restaurant’s growth while sharing centralized culinary, design, and operational expertise. Overall, the business spans 22 full-service locations across its concepts, has been operating for 22 years, and focuses its real estate development on restaurant space sizing typically in the thousands of square feet.

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