Ive heard some dumb pranksters licked sushi on the conveyor belt and now every kaitenzushi place in Tokyo doesnt serve sushi on the conveyor belt anymore. Will they ever come back?
I have seen plenty that use it. I needed to buy some appliances so I went to Tokyo last weekend. The one I went to, next to Akibas main train station, had theirs running.
Osaka and Kobe they’re going strong.
I think it was covid that did that. The infamous sushi licker went for the soy sauce bottle instead. But yeah I’ve seen plenty with it running.
Eh? They’re everywhere. What are you talking about?
There’s a place near me that called 回転しない寿司, with しない written in tiny tiny letters you can’t see from the road
Sushiro seems to be phasing them out. Their HQ restaurant in Esaka, Osaka just renovated and replaced the main conveyor belt with belts that go direct to your table. They have a MASSIVE screen that has a virtual conveyor belt, and if you touch one of those plates it’ll order it and send it to your table.
My opinion/ observation only. Before covid and shithead “influencers” many of the kaiten sushi in my area had converted to the direct to your seat sushi train. I think this model has a little less wastage. Covid and assholes probably just will accelerate the change to this model.
All of the sushi places near my house use them again now. I’ve only seen it still disabled in larger stores in urban areas. I live in Tokyo suburbs
I’ve seen a couple places in Tokyo bring them back already. As others have said, they disappeared with Covid, but even before then only tourists picked plates off the belt unless you watched the chef put them on immediately prior.
must be regional. Every kaitenzushi that has the plastic cover you have to pull out from has been running it where I’ve been in Hiroshima prefecture.
Little off topic but the guy who licked the soy sauce bottle and cups is a fucking twat. Some absolute idiots around.
Kura in Tokyo has sushi 回転ing all the time.
Try Kura sushi. I went recently and they’re still doing 回転寿司.
Do people actually take the rotating plates? I’ve always ordered from the tablet menu because I’d think it’s fresher
In Tohoku we still have regular 回転寿司 places. They are typically smaller shops. Haven’t been to a bigger chain since the influencer events so those might be different. The chefs usually are making something to go on the belt when not taking direct orders. Staff and chefs are constantly present so it would be hard to pull a stunt and not get found out.
Now I’m hungry for sushi
Actually, it’s not only because of pranksters that they stopped using conveyors, but also because of pandemic in the last 3 years.
Some sushi restaurants stopped using it since 2020 or so.
As far as I can tell the 回転寿司 places that do still use the conveyor belts only use them for delivering orders these days (on the tablet there’ll be a jingle when your order turns up). Most have shifted to a full delivery system, where your sushi just get sent to you directly when they’re ready. They’re still quite different from ordinary sushi places.
Honestly I don’t see the old style, in which a bunch of random stuff is just put out to go around the tables forever, coming back. The food is objectively less fresh that way and a huge amount of damage has been done by both covid and youtubers and kids doing 寿司テロ.
Honestly I feel like the new system is just better overall though – there’s no worrying about hygiene, the food is fresher and the chefs can focus on just making what’s being ordered, so stuff comes quicker, there’s less waste and (in theory) profits are higher.
Its better as soon as its made. If you want it at the wrong temperature then order it and let it sit for 20 minutes.
Kura sushi still spins. But they’ve got those lids on them… Soo…
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I have seen plenty that use it. I needed to buy some appliances so I went to Tokyo last weekend. The one I went to, next to Akibas main train station, had theirs running.
Osaka and Kobe they’re going strong.
I think it was covid that did that. The infamous sushi licker went for the soy sauce bottle instead. But yeah I’ve seen plenty with it running.
Eh? They’re everywhere. What are you talking about?
There’s a place near me that called 回転しない寿司, with しない written in tiny tiny letters you can’t see from the road
Sushiro seems to be phasing them out. Their HQ restaurant in Esaka, Osaka just renovated and replaced the main conveyor belt with belts that go direct to your table. They have a MASSIVE screen that has a virtual conveyor belt, and if you touch one of those plates it’ll order it and send it to your table.
My opinion/ observation only. Before covid and shithead “influencers” many of the kaiten sushi in my area had converted to the direct to your seat sushi train. I think this model has a little less wastage. Covid and assholes probably just will accelerate the change to this model.
All of the sushi places near my house use them again now. I’ve only seen it still disabled in larger stores in urban areas. I live in Tokyo suburbs
I’ve seen a couple places in Tokyo bring them back already. As others have said, they disappeared with Covid, but even before then only tourists picked plates off the belt unless you watched the chef put them on immediately prior.
must be regional. Every kaitenzushi that has the plastic cover you have to pull out from has been running it where I’ve been in Hiroshima prefecture.
Little off topic but the guy who licked the soy sauce bottle and cups is a fucking twat. Some absolute idiots around.
Kura in Tokyo has sushi 回転ing all the time.
Try Kura sushi. I went recently and they’re still doing 回転寿司.
Do people actually take the rotating plates? I’ve always ordered from the tablet menu because I’d think it’s fresher
In Tohoku we still have regular 回転寿司 places. They are typically smaller shops. Haven’t been to a bigger chain since the influencer events so those might be different. The chefs usually are making something to go on the belt when not taking direct orders. Staff and chefs are constantly present so it would be hard to pull a stunt and not get found out.
Now I’m hungry for sushi
Actually, it’s not only because of pranksters that they stopped using conveyors, but also because of pandemic in the last 3 years.
Some sushi restaurants stopped using it since 2020 or so.
As far as I can tell the 回転寿司 places that do still use the conveyor belts only use them for delivering orders these days (on the tablet there’ll be a jingle when your order turns up). Most have shifted to a full delivery system, where your sushi just get sent to you directly when they’re ready. They’re still quite different from ordinary sushi places.
Honestly I don’t see the old style, in which a bunch of random stuff is just put out to go around the tables forever, coming back. The food is objectively less fresh that way and a huge amount of damage has been done by both covid and youtubers and kids doing 寿司テロ.
Honestly I feel like the new system is just better overall though – there’s no worrying about hygiene, the food is fresher and the chefs can focus on just making what’s being ordered, so stuff comes quicker, there’s less waste and (in theory) profits are higher.
Its better as soon as its made. If you want it at the wrong temperature then order it and let it sit for 20 minutes.
Kura sushi still spins. But they’ve got those lids on them… Soo…