Woman-led. Growth-minded. · Hospitality group

We own, operate and build restaurants.

Usaram Hospitality Group owns and operates hospitality brands, starting in Ontario. We take a location from site search and construction to opening day, then run it well, shift after shift.

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OwnOur own restaurants, our own capital at work, our name on the lease.
OperateHands-on management of people, guests, food cost and labour.
BuildNew units from site selection and construction to grand opening.

Our name

First Ray.
First Step.

In Sanskrit, Usaram means the first ray of the day, the moment everything begins. Every restaurant we open is a new beginning, and every guest is served with care.

What we do

From empty unit
to full dining room.

01

Multi-unit operations

Day-to-day running of franchised restaurants to brand standard, with tight control of food cost, labour and cash.

02

New restaurant development

Site selection, lease negotiation, design, construction and opening, managed in-house.

03

Franchise finance

Lender relationships, project budgets and structuring that get new units funded and built on time.

04

Local marketing & community

Events, partnerships and social media that make each restaurant part of its neighbourhood.

05

People & training

Hiring, training and developing the managers and crews who make the guest experience.

Our restaurants

Brands we operate,
guests we know by name.

Established franchise brands, emerging concepts and a dessert brand of our own, from family casual dining to fast-casual.

Casual dining

Boston Pizza

Canada's family sports bar and restaurant.

Owner-operatorSports bar & dining
Ramen

Kinton Ramen

Japanese ramen house. Barrie and Heartland, Mississauga.

Two locationsFast-casual
Mexican

Gost Taco

Tacos and Mexican street food.

Emerging brandQuick service
Burgers

Rosie Burger

A burger restaurant built for quick, quality meals.

Emerging brandQuick service
Desserts

Our ice cream & dessert concept

An independently developed brand of our own, with expansion planned.

Own brandExpansion planned
What's next

New concepts

Future restaurant, hospitality and food concepts, in Ontario and beyond.

In development

Partner with us

A dependable operator
for every side of the table.

Franchisors

Grow your brand with a proven multi-unit operator

We open and run units to your standards, report on time and build the next location when the market is ready.

Investors & partners

Co-invest alongside the people running the restaurants

Clear budgets, monthly reporting and owner-operators with their own capital in every deal.

Landlords & developers

A tenant who builds out and stays

We handle design and construction, open on schedule and keep the unit busy for the long term.

What makes us different

Operators who
also build and finance.

01

Builders, not just operators

Construction project management and design & build experience in-house, so new units open on budget.

02

Finance discipline

Lender relationships, clear budgets and numbers reviewed every month.

03

Guest-first, community-first

Restaurants run by people who love hospitality and fill the room with events, local partnerships and social media.

04

Woman-led

Usaram is a woman-led company. Our leadership brings a people-first way of running restaurants, and we grow the next generation of leaders from within our own teams.

Our team

Woman-led.
Built by operators.

Rachel RichardDirector of Group OperationsHospitality, brands & marketing

Rachel leads Usaram. A hospitality leader who has built restaurants from the ground up, she heads operations across all our brands and drives guest experience, brand standards and sales through creative marketing, community events and social media.

Ushra PatelAssociate, Brand & Next GenerationBrand, digital & guest insight

Ushra brings the next generation's perspective to the group: how guests discover restaurants, what makes a brand feel right, and the experiences that keep them coming back.

Careers

Work with
a growing team.

We hire servers, cooks, hosts and managers across our restaurants, and we promote from within. Send us your resume and the location you'd like to work at.

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Contact

Let's open
the next one together.

Franchisor, investor, landlord or future team member: tell us what you have in mind and we'll get back to you.

welcome@usaram.ca