Itsu: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show

Itsu runs Asian-inspired food-to-go shops selling rice bowls, sushi, salads, noodle and soup dishes, steamed gyoza and bao. Customers eat in or take away, and it also supplies catering delivered to offices and events. Much of the food is steamed rather than fried, and shops hold a half-price sale each evening to cut food waste. The first shop opened in Chelsea, London, in 1997, and an itsu grocery range is sold in supermarkets.

In brief: Asian-inspired food to go · sushi, rice bowls and gyoza · own shops · evening half-price sale

The Companies House register records Butterfly 21 Bidco Limited as the person with significant control of Itsu Limited, company number 03286342. Butterfly 21 Bidco Limited is itself company number 13226962.

That places Itsu Limited inside a larger group. The accounts on this page are the company's own, not the wider group's.

The Companies House register lists 4 current officers for Itsu Limited.

Itsu Limited reported turnover of £124m in the year to January 2026. That was up 2.8% on £120m the year before.

It reported 1,195 employees. The year before it reported 1,217.

It filed a pre-tax loss of £5m for the year, against a pre-tax loss of £7m the year before.

Staff costs came to £41m. That is an average of £34,000 a head. It ended the year with £3m at the bank and net assets of -£17m.

Itsu Limited has registered 22 charges at Companies House, of which 5 are still outstanding. A charge is security a lender takes over a company's assets; one is satisfied when the lending behind it is repaid or released.