In Tokyo, 20-year-old musician Luna Watanabe said she was appalled by the videos. The footage, viewed nearly 40 million times on Twitter and filmed at a branch of the Sushiro chain in the central Japanese city of Gifu, prompted stocks in the restaurant's parent company to plunge nearly five per cent on Tuesday
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Two other affected chains, Hama-sushi and Kura Sushi, have also said they plan to take legal action, with the latter planning to install cameras above conveyor belts to monitor customers, Jiji press agency reported. It said all the soy sauce bottles at the affected store had been replaced and all the cups cleaned, and announced new restaurant policies.Īt the Gifu branch and others nearby, customers will now take utensils and condiments to their tables from a serving point, and nationwide, diners will be able to request disinfected tableware. 'As a company, we will continue to respond firmly with both criminal and civil cases,' it said. In a statement, Sushiro said the teen behind the viral video had apologised, along with his parents, but that the firm had filed a formal police complaint. 'This is sickening,' one Japanese Twitter user wrote in response, with another adding: 'I can't go to conveyor belt sushi restaurants anymore.' Though the incidents appear to be confined to just a few videos, they have caused an uproar in Japan, a country with famously high standards of cleanliness.
Other videos emerged showing customers at different chains putting wasabi on passing pieces of sushi or licking the spoon in a communal green tea powder container. The customer then licked his finger before touching a piece of sushi as it goes past on the belt
Other videos have emerged showing customers at different chains putting wasabi on passing pieces of sushi or licking the spoon in a communal green tea powder container. The footage, viewed nearly 40 million times on Twitter and filmed at a branch of the Sushiro chain in the central Japanese city of Gifu, prompted stocks in the restaurant's parent company to plunge nearly five per cent on Tuesday. In the video, dubbed 'sushi terrorism', the teenager licks the top of a communal soy sauce bottle and the rim of a teacup he then places back on a shelf, before licking his finger and touching a piece of sushi as it goes past on the belt.
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The teenager is among a series of pranksters who have been filmed contaminating food at sushi conveyor belt restaurants in Japan, with the pranks sparking stock slumps, venue overhauls and legal action. A 'sushi terrorist' caused a Japanese restaurant's stock value to plunge after he filmed himself licking the top of a communal soy sauce bottle and touching a piece of food as it went round on a conveyor belt.
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