Newest Bento Box Will Open This Fall

Jonathan Kim, owner of the two Bento Box restaurants, is opening a new location later this year in downtown Sacramento.

The location will take 5,600 square feet at the ground floor of the office building at 1600 K St.

The restaurant should open in the fall. The space will have soaring ceilings, about 25 feet high, said Greg Thomas, broker with Cornish & Carey Commercial Newmark Knight Frank. Thomas represented the JD/LD K St. LLC, owners of the building.

Kim was represented by Daniel Mueller of Turton Commercial Real Estate.

Bento Box has locations at 65th Street and Folsom Boulevard in East Sacramento and in Loehmann’s Plaza. It serves Japanese and Korean cuisine.

When the downtown restaurant opens, it will be right on 16th Street, Sacramento’s Japanese cuisine restaurant row.

Sacramento’s sushi row starts at Miso Japanese Cuisine, which is near the corner of 16th and Broadway. Just a few blocks away from Miso is Kamon Japanese Restaurant in a center at 16th and V streets. There’s a gap of a few blocks before you get to Shabu Japanese Fondue, which is at the corner of 16th and R. Nishiki Sushi is near 16th and P streets in the Fremont Building. Sapporo Grill is at 16th and L streets. Then, a few blocks away at 16th and J, is the downtown location of Mikuni Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar.

Just off 16th Street, there is Zen Sushi at the corner of 15th and I streets and Ju Hachi Japanese Cuisine by Taka at 18th and S streets.

— Mark Anderson, May 3

Six reasons to enter Social Madness

Is your company still weighing whether to enter our Social Madness competition?

It doesn’t take a lot of time to enter. What you really need is to be local, to meet our rules and to have company social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

But if you need more reasons, our affiliate the Washington Business Journal offers some more, which we’ve adapted for Sacramento readers.

The deadline to enter is May 15.

1. Formalize your social media outreach. If you haven’t created a social media strategy yet, let us help. Sign up for Social Madness. Use it as an excuse to create a plan. You’re in business. You’re competitive. What better inspiration to create what could prove to be an invaluable tool for your business than some healthy competition. If you already have a social media plan in place — even better. You already know what you’re doing, and you want to win this, right?

2. Impress our readers. Show all of our loyal readers just how smart and popular you are. They may know your company, but let them know how influential you are on Facebook. Give them a taste of how you use Twitter.

3. Represent Sacramento. You know we live in the shadow of the cities to the west — San Francisco, San Jose. But we’re a government town, in the heart of the state in the capital. It’s time to show who’s best at leveraging Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to win clients and influence audiences. Plus, we get a chance to show how great Sacramento really is.

4. Gain national exposure. Sure, this competition starts local, but it’s a bracket-style tournament that advances to a national level. We’ll be writing about you here, but so will our sister papers in many other markets.

5. Reach new audiences. Everyone in the immediate neighborhood may love your business, but this competition will help you branch out. Let’s face it — it’s free marketing if you do well.

6. Bragging rights. You can’t win if you don’t play, and after you win, you can brag until you’re blue in the face. That’s what it’s all about, right? Our company won a national social media competition. That’s right!

Voting on the local rounds of Social Madness starts June 1.

— Business Journal staff, May 4

Roseville gets new Jack’s Urban Eats

In the fall, the Fountains at Roseville will get the eighth location of Jack’s Urban Eats, the epicurean cafeteria-style restaurant that started out in midtown.

The Jack’s will take the 2,800-square-foot space now occupied by The Counter: Custom Built Burger restaurant. The Counter is closing and the space will be remodeled.

Jack’s is a counter-serve restaurant that features the kind of fare a diner would expect in a full-service restaurant. Jack’s lets diners choose toppings for their salads or sandwiches from a wide variety of ingredients. It also offers a choice of several hot side dishes, including mashed potatoes, grilled vegetables, and macaroni and cheese.

Trevor Sanders, managing general partner of the Jack’s Urban Eats partnership group, said the Fountains location will get some menu twists.

The restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner.

— Mark Anderson, May 4

New market manager for Clear Channel

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Sacramento announced last week that radio industry veteran Dave Milner has been named president and market manager, effective immediately.

The announcement came May 1, a day after Jeff Holden, vice president and market manager, abruptly left the company.

Reached by phone, Wendy Maxham, regional controller in Sacramento for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, called it a “business decision for a change in management.”

It was not immediately clear why the decision was made to replace Holden. A Clear Channel executive could not immediately be reached for comment.

Clear Channel Sacramento owns and operates six stations. The company is part of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment.

Milner, meanwhile, will manage the six stations and oversee all managerial, strategic and sales functions in the Sacramento market for Clear Channel.

— Melanie Turner, May 4