Sun Noodle

Hisae Uki, Candice Ishikawa, Alison “Bo” Tanaka, Heather Cutter and Clarice Casamina play leading roles at their families’ businesses.

It's happening! This year you can find Umamido at Tomorrowland! Our team is beyond excited to embark on an unforgettable journey to one of the biggest festivals! Ready for innovation, inspiration, and incredible experiences. See you there! 🎉💃🕺 Noodles brought to you by Sun Noodle!

In Germany 🇩🇪 last week to share our Sun Noodle story and introduce our products. Incredible energy and thoughtful discussions throughout the day and night. As the #ramen and #asiannoodle category continues to grow, we are really fortunate to be a part of these opportunities. Let's go! 🍜

Wrapped up our first Sun Noodle #OperationsandFinanceSummit in Torrance, CA last week. Incredible two days as we gathered our leaders from #Hawaii, #California, #NewJersey and #TheNetherlands to come together to learn, dialogue, connect, and dream big 🙌 . 🤯 - We kicked it off by taking our team to the King's Hawaiian Corporate office and factories. When I think of a world class organization that has built an incredible product, fantastic people-culture, and the best manufacturing process, #kingshawaiian is always the team I benchmark. Winston Akira Taira, thank you for working with us to coordinate this visit. Our team was inspired by the 74-year overnight success 👨🎓 👩🎓 ! 👨🏫 - Gregg Imamoto took it home on the second half of day 1 by teaching us what makes a successful #highperformanceteam. Loved Gregg's energy and his ability to make difficult things look simple. Also, great clips from #tedlasso and #topgun! Striving for more #mavericks so we can #believe! 🤼♂️ - Melissa Choo Valentinas from Verde Associates walked our team through our DiSC assessment and taught us how to better communicate with each other. Learning about each others personality traits and then being adaptive was key! 🚴♂️ - Ended the day building bikes as a team that we would then donate to Foster Love. These bikes will go to children that will allow them to further engage in extracurricular activities. A big mahalo to every single person who carved out time to be with us. And a big big mahalo to Sylvia H. and Dharuien David for organizing this #sunnoodles summit and making sure everything ran smoothly.

🍜 Do you keep hiring all in the family in a family-led business? We asked third-generation artisanal noodle maker Kenshiro Uki of Sun Noodle to share how he approaches team building and leadership. Here are a few highlights from the five questions we asked him: 💭 How do you approach hiring talent from outside the family? "Looking for talent outside the family is a must as we strive to build an organization filled with great talent who can help us achieve things we can only dream of." 💭 How would you describe your leadership style? "Demanding? Haha. Demanding but fair… with a lot of trust in our team. I have an ambitious vision for Sun Noodle." 💭 As a leader, how do you foster team culture? "It's been a lot of trial and error for me. Our company has been growing rapidly over these years so each stage has challenged me to adapt depending on where we are in our growth. When we were smaller and all in the same room, we did a lot of weekly meals and the unofficial conversations naturally led to information sharing which kept us all aligned." 💭 If you could trade places with any other founder for a day, who would it be and why? "I'd love to trade places with two people..." Read our full interview here: https://forceb.co/3WFparA #leadership #hiring #food #FoodIndustry #AAPI #AAPIHistoryMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIMonth

H Mart and Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. are bringing back the Japanese Food Festival to 9 states starting this week! Many thanks to Brian Kwon for his vision to bring this opportunity to his #Hmart fans. With many Japanese food leading brands coming together, you can find your favorite household items on sale + receive a limited edition gift from a handful of the vendors: House Foods America, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., ITO EN (North America) INC., Asahi Beverages, Sun Noodle, S&B, Calpico, Pocky, Hi Chew, Monteur, Marukome, Mishima, and many more. Head to your nearest #Hmart in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, and Georgia from this week to be transported back to Japan without the jetlag 😎 🇯🇵 . I personally got to visit a handful of stores and got to see the hard working demo team bringing smiles to all with our products. Please stop by and say hi! Thank you Younggi Lee for helping me to translate my appreciation 🇰🇷 ! #japanesefoodfair #japanfood #sunnoodles