T&T Supermarket, a Canadian chain selling Asian groceries, announced Thursday plans to open its first store in the San Francisco Bay Area, marking its third planned store in the U.S.
Located at the Westgate Center in San Jose, the 55,000-square-foot store will occupy a former Walmart location. T&T expects to open the store, which will create about 200 jobs, in fall 2025.
The new location will feature a barbecue counter, noodle station, dim sum and street food section along with a hot food bar and a made-to-order Chinese crepe station. The location will also have an in-store bakery with mochi puffs, egg tarts, Hong Kong-style pastries and customized cakes.
“We aim to create a destination,” said CEO Tina Lee. “It’s a place for discovery, innovation, and bringing people together through food. We want to evolve our grocery store beyond the functional – we want to be the place where people want to go, not just need to go.”
T&T is gearing up to make its U.S. debut with a store in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington. That store was slated to debut this summer, but in July the company said the opening is delayed because an electrical panel is on backorder.
In June, T&T announced plans to open a second Washington location with a store just north of Seattle, in Lynnwood.
T&T has more than 30 stores across Canada offering a selection of Asian products, fresh produce, full-service meat counters, live seafood tanks and in-store prepared foods programs.