Sustainable hospitality
and excellence.
A dining group built on the Korean table tradition, where abundance is unspoken, care is constant, and every guest leaves with more than they expected.
A dining group built on the Korean table tradition, where abundance is unspoken, care is constant, and every guest leaves with more than they expected.
Who we are
In Korean tradition, a meal's honor is measured in banchan, the small dishes that arrive before you've even ordered. More dishes, more care. The royal table held twelve.
We named our group after that idea. Every brand we build, every guest we serve, every team member we welcome is one more dish set on the table.
반찬
밥상
Founder · Managing Partner
Min began his career in leveraged finance at JPMorgan, working on some of the largest technology M&A transactions, a decade of deals, discipline, and numbers.
Formerly CFO and COO of Omakase Restaurant Group, he is now an owner, investor, and board member of Itria Restaurant Group and Rooster & Rice, with extensive experience starting and operating fine-dining restaurants across the Bay Area, including Yeobo, Darling in Menlo Park and Ajae, a Korean comfort restaurant opening in Oakland in late 2026.
Banchan Hospitality Group brings those two lives together: the precision of a finance background and the warmth of the Korean table, gathered always around one setting.
Connect on LinkedIn ↗In the press
What we do
Back-of-house financial clarity for restaurants and hospitality businesses, the books handled with the same precision as the menu.
Complete care of your day-to-day financial records, categorizing transactions, maintaining ledgers, and managing accounts payable and receivable. Your books stay clean, current, and audit-ready, so your team can focus on service.
Bank accounts, credit cards, and POS reports matched against your books every month. Discrepancies are identified, investigated, and resolved before they ever cost you, delivered with clear reports you can actually read.
End-to-end payroll for hourly teams, tipped staff, and multi-location operations. Wage calculations, withholdings, and tax filings handled accurately and on time, every pay period, with full compliance built in.
Creative and marketing momentum for hospitality brands ready to be seen, identity, content, and campaigns that fill tables.
Content strategy, creation, and community management across Instagram, TikTok, and beyond. We build a consistent voice and a feed that looks as good as the food, turning followers into regulars.
Identities and wordmarks crafted with the same care as a signature dish. From first sketches to final brand guidelines, we give your concept a mark worth remembering, and a system for using it well.
Launches, seasonal promotions, and full-funnel campaigns built around your calendar. Concept, creative, and execution designed to fill tables, lift covers, and build buzz that lasts beyond opening week.
Portfolio
Each concept has its own kitchen and its own voice, all share the same conviction that generosity is a discipline.
Seasonal California-Italian cooking in San Francisco: unfussy pastas, wood-fired plates, and a wine list built for lingering.
Visit site ↗Acclaimed Korean-inspired dining on the Peninsula, a love letter to Seoul's flavors, Darling.
Visit site ↗The khao man gai specialists, Thai comfort food elevated and served across California and Texas.
Visit site ↗Gukbap and Korean home-style cooking, taken to the next level, coming to Piedmont Avenue, Oakland.
More info coming →The next dish is already on the pass. More concepts are in development; details to be announced.
Corporate Partners
We're proud to build alongside partners who share our standards, in the dining room, and behind it.
The restaurant platform powering our kitchens and dining rooms: POS, payroll, and operations running on one system, so service never skips a beat.
Learn more ↗ iK Restaurant Financing & DininginKind fuels independent restaurants with flexible financing and a dining app that rewards regulars, growth capital that keeps guests coming back to the table.
Learn more ↗We don't serve food.Banchan Hospitality Group · 환대, the Korean art of welcome
We set a table where everyone eats well.
How we work
Refill before being asked. Over-deliver on the small things: the kimchi, the greeting, the follow-up. Scale never outranks care.
아낌없이 · without holding backWe honor recipes passed down through generations, then let our chefs interpret them for the city and season in front of them.
전통 속의 현대 · modernity within traditionGuests, partners, and our team. A hospitality group is only ever as warm as the people standing at its doors.
정 · the warmth between peopleGet in touch
Partnerships, press, catering inquiries, or a career in hospitality, we would love to hear from you.
The table is set, come say hello.
Our contact form covers everything from Gather Finances and Plated Catalyst inquiries to partnerships and careers.
Open the contact formMessages go straight to min@banchanhg.com