is a Japanese restaurant and cafe chain headquartered in

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History

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bought the Italian Tomato restaurant chain in 1986. Under Namco control, the store has been featured as a background in the

arcade and video console game hits ''

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'' and ''

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''; the front of the store can be found in Ling Xiaoyu's stage, which is themed like an amusement park. Also, a cameo of this restaurant appeared in the Nintendo Family Computer RPG '' Rasāru Ishii no Childs Quest''. In 2005, Namco sold the majority share of Italian Tomato to , a food distributor and cafe operator. Since Namco, now

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is a significant minority shareholder.

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Official website
in English and Japanese)
Official website in Hong Kong
in English and Chinese) Namco Japanese restaurants Italian restaurants Restaurants in Japan Bakery cafés {{Asia-restaurant-stub