Italian Tomato
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The Italian Tomato is a Japanese Italian restaurant and bakery chain. It has been featured as a background in the Namco
arcade and video console game hits Tekken 3
and Tekken Tag Tournament
. The front of the store can be found in Ling Xiaoyu's stage, which is themed like an amusement park.
Namco
bought the Italian Tomato restaurant chain in 1986.
In 2005, Namco sold the majority share of Italian Tomato to , a food distributor and cafe operator. Since Namco, now Namco Bandai Games
is a significant minority shareholder.
Namco
is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...
arcade and video console game hits Tekken 3
Tekken 3
Tekken 3 is the third installment in the popular Tekken fighting game series. It was released for Arcades in March 1997, and for the PlayStation in mid-1998. The original Arcade version of the game was released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2 as part of Tekken 5s Arcade History mode...
and Tekken Tag Tournament
Tekken Tag Tournament
is the fourth installment in the popular Tekken fighting game series. It, however, is not canonical to the Tekken storyline. The game was originally available as an update kit for Tekken 3. Tekken Tag Tournament was originally released as an arcade game before it was ported to the PlayStation 2...
. The front of the store can be found in Ling Xiaoyu's stage, which is themed like an amusement park.
Namco
Namco
is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...
bought the Italian Tomato restaurant chain in 1986.
In 2005, Namco sold the majority share of Italian Tomato to , a food distributor and cafe operator. Since Namco, now Namco Bandai Games
Namco Bandai Games
is an arcade, mobile and home video game developer and publisher based in Japan which is the product of a merger between the video game development divisions of Bandai and Namco. Namco Bandai Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings and specializes in production and sales of...
is a significant minority shareholder.