Create Restaurants Holdings bought six modern American restaurants near Minneapolis, including the Hazelwood Food + Drink brand, from Nova Restaurant Group for about $23.4 million. The six restaurants had about ¥7.6 billion in sales in 2025. Big restaurants The six restaurants averaged about ¥1.26 billion in sales each in 2025, far more than a typical casual restaurant, and Create paid roughly half their yearly sales. The buyer is a new unit, Create Restaurants MN. Keeping a promise When it bought Wildflower in 2024, Create said it wanted two or three more well-run local US brands within a few years. Nova is the first of those, and like the earlier deals it adds a brand in a new region rather than a Japanese concept.
