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EXKi
Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 04:39PM 
EXKi is a fast-casual restaurant with an environmental conscience, serving a vegetable-centric menu with primarily organic ingredients, free-range chickens, and recipes free of additives or preservatives.
The name is short for the French exquis, meaning exquisite. That’s a lot to live up to.
The first EXKi opened in Brussels in 2001, eventually expanding to 77 restaurants in five Western European countries. Their first New York outlet is number 78, with another planned for later this year, and surely more to come if the concept succeeds.
Pret A Manger offers a good template for what EXKi could become, if it takes off.
