Pak Plans New $3.5M Fayetteville Shogun

John Pak, the owner of three Shogun Steak House restaurants in Northwest Arkansas, plans to build a new 10,000-SF, $3.5 million Shogun near Fayetteville’s Northwest Arkansas Mall.

The new restaurant will replace one Pak currently operates in leased space in the nearby Spring Creek Centre. Construction is scheduled to begin late this year and be completed next summer.

The new restaurant will be located on three acres of land Pak owns north of McAlister’s Deli. It will accommodate about 320 diners.

Pak opened an 8,000-SF Shogun in Bentonville in September 2003 and a 1,800-SF Shogun Express two miles closer to the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on March 16.

Pak also owns a Shogun in Branson, Mo., and a restaurant called Ah-So in Mesa, Ariz.

Pak, who was a schoolteacher in Korea, moved to Fayetteville in 1989 and opened the restaurant there.

Although there is a chain of Shogun restaurants on the East Coast, Pak says his is independently owned and not a franchise. The word shogun is Japanese for “military general,” he said.