Sushi chain limits conveyor belt use to orders after licking scandal

Sushi chain limits conveyor belt use to orders after licking scandal

They change they way do business because one sick customer do stupid things?

Typical Japanese problem-solving approach. One idiot does something stupid once, and then the entire public is inconvenienced or even punished forever.

Licking scandal. Sounds nice.

It's damage control. Of course it's a massive overreaction, but they simply cannot risk public perception drifting even slightly towards disgust towards their restaurants, they have to pull out all the stops.

Yes it's an over reaction but Japanese society over reacts to this scandel as well. They already tried to blame the school this kid goes to because "Japan".

We need to come up with a specific law to cover this kind of behavior or at least charge this kind of YouTuber with an amount equal to the damages to the company.

It's not just one instance, it's one instance that has gone viral so it's gets just as much attention against such acts.

Just because it's not recorded and shared doesn't mean it never happens.

Such acts make things worse for everyone, and that's what society must learn.

We live in a society, doesn't work, if you only think of yourself.

Would the boy drink from a cup that was licked by someone else?

I doubt it. And that's what this is all about. He knew it's wrong, but he did it anyway for attention, well careful what you wish for.

Hate to say it, but I kind of watch the other customers when I'm in one of these kinds of restaurants.

I was at one of these kinds of sushi shops, and this young guy in the next booth was putting the cups he used for drinking back with the clean ones. I guess he was trying to impress his friends with how gross he could be.

I also saw a woman next to me at a cake and dessert bar wipe the cream off of the cake and eat it right there and then putting it back with the cake. Yuck!

The Sushi conveyor belt restaurants were already doing this over the past 3 years as people were reluctant to go do to the pandemic.

They change they way do business because one sick customer do stupid things?

Stupid people doing stupid things for Tik Tok views usually attract stupid copycats. The best thing to do would be to also lay the hammer down on the boy's family to make these stupid copycats think about trying anything.

How about instead of paying these idiots for the number of views they rack up, even for these vile actions, companies like Google fine these idiots? Need to stop the incentive to act like this.

Why not put a clear plastic cover upon the dishes, which is often adopted especially in overseas restaurants?

Kappa Sushi got rid of their old conveyor belt system a few years ago and it’s SO much better. They have multilingual touch menus at each table; all you have to do is type in your order (up to four plates at a time) and within minutes a little “shinkansen” train wizzes is directly to your table. Take the plates off, push a button to send the train back, repeat until full. Not only does it prevent other people touching your food, it means the sushi hasn’t been sitting out on a conveyor belt for god knows how long before you get it.

Why not put a clear plastic cover upon the dishes

And then someone would lick the plastic cover. Next would be to shrinkwrap everything ... and someone would put their genitals on the shrinkwrap. Technical countermeasures don't prevent antisocial behaviour, they normalise it.

The only appropriate reaction to antisocial behaviour is for society to call it out and punish it appropriately.

I was actually shocked that Sushiro continued their normal conveyor belt sushi concept during the whole pandemic, and didn't go the Hama Sushi style where sushi goes straight to the person that ordered it.

Having food go around from table to table, slowly passing thru every conversation so someone later picked that plate, during COVID-19.

JeffLee

Today 07:10 am JST

Typical Japanese problem-solving approach. One idiot does something stupid once, and then the entire public is inconvenienced or even punished forever

I am not sure what you mean by this!

Are you claiming that this is just a Japanese way to react?

Please if so you need to get out more.

On my last trip home to Canada many many stores now require you to check your bags at the entrance no purses no backpack in some cases no bulky coats.

Why? Because some people shoplift.

Skateboards in the park and rollerblades not permitted only in designated areas, why? Because some people couldn't act properly.

This is not a "Japanese" reaction it would have been the same in most countries once this stuff starts happening and gets on YouTube and tiktok,

The cinnamon "challenge" cause supermarkets to put the cinnamon in locked cases to stop children and to ask why they wanted cinnamon because it was a dangerous thing to do that stupid challenge.

So everyone got inconvenienced.

This was in much of North America.

They change they way do business because one sick customer do stupid things?

Unfortunately, it's not just this one customer.

My wife (Japanese) tells me that there have been quite a few other similar incidents at kaiten-sushi places as well.

It is sad, though. Conveyor-belt sushi is one of the coolest things about Japan, in my humble opinion. It's a shame that a few childish idiots have to ruin it for everybody.

It is sad, though. Conveyor-belt sushi is one of the coolest things about Japan, in my humble opinion. It's a shame that a few childish idiots have to ruin it for everybody.

Is it these idiots or is it YouTube and tiktok?

Think about it, no tiktok or YouTube these fools wouldn't have bothered doing it because it wouldn't be fun just them.

The "fun" part is up loading it and seeing 1 million people watch it.

The cinnamon challenge would not have happened if no one was recording it and posting on YouTube and tiktok and supermarkets wouldn't have had to hide the cinnamon.

These were high school kids they do stupid things as we all did at that age.

But today social media is so important that getting views gives these already immature boys incentive to take things too far.

We have seen people have their girlfriend shoot them with a real gun thinking a large book would stop the bullet ( yes they died) all for views!

I was out walking in ikebururo the other night after dinner with my wife.

Everywhere we went was someone recording a tiktok.

One group was out in the middle of the street dancing while blocking traffic.

The run out on a red light set up the camera/phone then remain when the light turns green and dance while the cars beep wanting to go on the green light.

The challenge apparently is to block the traffic until the light turns red again.

This is what our society has become.

somebody just had to put something “shocking” on TikTok or “the Gram”.

stupidity abounds these days just trying to get “likes” from random people.

I found the video in the English gutter press the Daily Mail. The person looks very young and his actions are disgusting and very immature.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2869383/Video-Teen-licks-communal-sauce-bottle-utensils-Japanese-restaurant.html

No more conveyor belt sushi for me for a while. Lots of copycats will pop up.

How would anyone know if a person/group was making a video for TikTok?

I have only been once to this type of sushi restaurant. I thought it was a little unhygienic with other people breathing all over the plates or putting them back on the belt.

I prefer the establishments where you sit at the bar and watch the sushi being made and chat with the owner. and drink a little sake.

wallace

Today 12:55 pm JST

How would anyone know if a person/group was making a video for TikTok

We get out of the house and look!

All you have to do is look at what they are doing.

It the person if dancing infront of a camera blocking traffic, they are not doing it for their health.

There are so many tiktok trends these days I don't think most can keep up.

The cinnamon challenge would not have happened if no one was recording it and posting on YouTube and tiktok and supermarkets wouldn't have had to hide the cinnamon.

I disagree. I worked at a supermarket back when I was a student (1980s) and I saw people do very similarly stupid things.

These were high school kids they do stupid things as we all did at that age.

Exactly.

But today social media is so important that getting views gives these already immature boys incentive to take things too far.

I'm no social media fan, especially for kids and especially TikTok -- but in the end, it's not social media's fault. It's the fault of the sushi-lickers.

Everywhere we went was someone recording a tiktok.

One group was out in the middle of the street dancing while blocking traffic.

I've seen that sort of thing plenty of times, long before the era of TikTok and smartphones.

This is what our society has become.

What our society has become is one where people don't want to hold people responsible for their actions -- blaming everything from guns to cars to TikTok to social media instead.

Hakman

Today 02:04 pm JST

Let's be reasonable.

Sure I have seen kids blocking traffic dancing before YouTube and tiktok but usually drunk high or messing around.

We are not talking like that.

We are talking tripod camera even music, we are talking multiple groups doing it on the same area

In some areas of Tokyo you will have dozens of kids all along the road, recording their tiktok in hopes of becoming the next sensation.

And once they get an audience they need to maintain it by doing more and more crazy things

Gosh, another reason not to live in Tokyo with dangerous TikTok gangs and sushi lickers.

Gosh, another reason not to live in Tokyo with dangerous TikTok gangs and sushi lickers.

not Tokyo

In a video widely shared on social media, a customer at a Sushiro branch in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture

At least I wasn’t caught. One plate two sushi. One missing.

At least I wasn’t caught. One plate two sushi. One missing.

And that mindset -- doing something outrageous and posting online about it to get a rise out of people -- is exactly the issue at hand. Well spotted.

I came across this one on Reddit.. which would be appropriate for the said offenders, or would be copycat's

https://www.reddit.com/r/Funnymemes/comments/10tui6e/_/

A "Life is Short - so Lick the Bowl" sign, placed in the bathroom....

In a video widely shared on social media

Says it all, does it not? Another moron who does disgusting things for clicks. Sadly, the companies like Google and Tictoc reward this.

How would anyone know if a person/group was making a video for TikTok?

Duh !