ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen

ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRestaurants
FoundedSeptember 15, 2011 (2011-09-15) in Washington, DC
Founder
DefunctMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
FateClosed
Number of locations
15 (July 2016)
Area served
California, Illinois, Maryland, and Washington, DC
ParentChipotle Mexican Grill
WebsiteLast archive of official website

ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, or simply ShopHouse, was an American restaurant chain specializing in Southeast Asian cuisine. Its name derived from the shophouse, a common building type in urban Southeast Asia. The first ShopHouse opened in September 2011 in Washington, D.C. As of April 2016, there were a total of fourteen ShopHouse locations, in California, Chicago, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. ShopHouse was owned and operated by Chipotle Mexican Grill, and used a similar serving format.

Like Chipotle, ShopHouse restaurants were company-owned, rather than franchised. Its competitors included Panda Express, P. F. Chang's, Pick Up Stix, and to a small extent Noodles & Company. On October 25, 2016, founder, Steve Ells, said during an earnings call that the company "decided not to invest further in growing the ShopHouse brand." All ShopHouse locations were closed on March 17, 2017. After the restaurants closed, the leases for each restaurant were purchased by Gosh Enterprises and converted into new locations for Bibibop Asian Grill.