There have been vandalism in Japanese sushi restaurants recently. The customer has been seen, for example, drinking from a soy bottle.
9.3. 15:11•Updated 9.3. 17:55
In Japan, the police have arrested three people because of the “sushi terror”, reports the British Broadcasting Company BBC (switch to another service) and Guardian (switching to another service)-magazine.
Those arrested are suspected of unhygienic pranks in sushi restaurants.
In February, a video of a customer of a restaurant called Kura sushi, which caused outrage, went viral, in which a man licks a bottle of soy sauce that was on a sushi conveyor belt.
A 21-year-old man and two other customers who were with him, a 19-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl, were arrested. They are suspected to have helped in sharing the video.
After the licking incident, several similar videos have spread online, raising concerns among sushi entrepreneurs and their customers.
Many sushi restaurants that deliver their food via conveyor belt have made public appeals to the offenders to stop vandalism.
Some restaurants have even stopped serving sushi with a conveyor belt. In eastern Japan, the Choushimaru chain announced it would stop using conveyor belts after a customer put a cigarette butt in a jar of ginger.
The staff of the restaurants of the Choushimaru chain now serve the food directly to the customers.
The pranks have also led to a drop in the stock prices of companies like the Sushiro chain.
Japan is known for its precision in the purity and quality of its food.
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