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Stardate: 20210722.1603 | |
Location: Kura Revolving Sushi Bar | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA | |
Audio: v a p o r w a v e | |
Visual: Various sushi on a conveyor belt | |
Emotional State: hunger, dunno, ask me later. | |
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I decided to try out this fairly new sushi bar at the mall. It has | |
this double-decker conveyor belt that delivers sushi on these plates | |
with a transparent flip-up lid. The main conveyor belt with the | |
usual suspects are on the bottom and the special orders are up top. | |
They calibrated the top belt to automatically stop at your seat | |
with your special order. Special orders are placed from a tablet | |
mounted above the top belt in front of your seat, where you can also | |
call the server and close out your check. The conveyor belts | |
wraps around the restaurant and seating, including the booths. | |
There is a slot in the counter/table where you deposit your empty | |
plates. They determine your bill by your plate count. Pretty neat | |
and high tech. It looks like they even have a mobile app and also | |
gamified the experience. I went here during non-busy hours because | |
I heard that there was usually a line during regular meal times. | |
This reminded me of a few conveyor belt style sushi bars that I have | |
been to. The first one I went to was in Japan back in 2000, which | |
blew my mind. This concept of sushi on a conveyor belt with the | |
different colored plates for the pricing was amazing! Where else | |
would this type of automation happening in a public setting? Stuff | |
like this always drew me to Japan. | |
Fortunately, most of the items that were on the conveyor belt in | |
Japan I could not identify. This sushi was not the thawed-out sushi | |
that I had become accustomed to in the Western World, no, this was | |
the fresh fish of the East! The fish that lives in that part of | |
the world that I knew nothing about. The same fish that swam with | |
Gojira! So not only did I get a new experience of sushi being | |
delivered to my via conveyor belt, but also I got to experience | |
consuming possibly radioactive fish that I could not identify. | |
DOUBLE WIN! | |
When I moved out West, I found other conveyor belt or revolving sushi | |
bars. One even used boats tethered together, floating on a "river" | |
of water surrounding the sushi chefs, who were stationed in the | |
middle and the customers on the other side of the river. | |
I just checked the web site[1] for the Kura restaurant and it looks | |
like they have over 450 locations throughout the world. If you like | |
sushi and have an opportunity to experience Kura, do check it out! | |
(Please note that I am in no way any kind of sushi connoisseur, but | |
their sushi tasted good to me and I enjoyed the experience!) | |
[1] Kura Revolving Sushi Bar | |
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