High tech conveyor belt sushi
June 17th, 2009 by James
A look at some of the high tech tricks being used by one conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain:
- Used plates are put into a slot, tallying the price of what you ate and sending the dish back for cleaning. For every 5 plates eaten, a little slot machine game is played. Kids love winning prizes.
- Each plate has an IC chip. When a plate has been going around the conveyor belt for too long, it is automatically classified as old sushi and dumped.
- When there are only a few customers at the restaurant, the length of the conveyor belt can be adjusted.
- A computer system keeps track of how many customers enter the restaurant, and it calculates the amount of sushi that chefs must make at any given time.
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That place looks like so much fun for kids~!
I KNOW THIS PLACE!!!!
my homestay took me there for dinner when i just arrived there for my study trip on april 2006!! i arrived at Kyoto station, and my homestay’s house is at Nara. i’m pretty sure this place is somewhere in between the route!!
though i have to say that the sushi over there IS delicious.
It’s くらずし, a regional chain sushi place. They are all over the place in kansai.
That is so damn cool. It’s fun to see high-technology merging with traditional industries.
Yep, that’s cool.
Sushi costs a mint here, and it’s terrible. I’d happily eat that old stuff they’re throwing out and take my chances with food poisoning.
wow
the thrown sushi is such as waste though
Seeing this only reinforces an old theory I’ve had about the Japanese… that they are SO FRICKIN COOL!!!!
They’ve introduced some very clever things there, amazing.
I’ve never been to a kaiten sushi place in Japan, only to regular sushi shops. But there are two or three kaiten sushi places in my home town in Germany.
They have sushi chefs from Japan and import the ingredients, so the sushi is very good, but unfortunately also quite expensive.