Italian Tomato

For the variety of tomato referred to as italian tomatoes, see Roma tomato

Italian Tomato Cafe

The Italian Tomato (イタリアン・トマト) is a Japanese Italian restaurant and bakery chain. It has been featured as a background in the Namco arcade and video console game hits Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament. A cameo of this restaurant appeared in the Nintendo Family Computer RPG Rasāru Ishii no Childs Quest. The front of the store can be found in Ling Xiaoyu's stage, which is themed like an amusement park.

Namco bought the Italian Tomato restaurant chain in 1986. In 2005, Namco sold the majority share of Italian Tomato to Key Coffee, Inc. (キーコーヒー株式会社, Kīkōhī Kabushiki-gaisha, [1]), a food distributor and cafe operator. Since Namco, now Namco Bandai Games is a significant minority shareholder.

See also

• List of Italian restaurants

External links

• Italian Tomato website (in Japanese)
• Location Information (in Japanese)