Talk:Conveyor belt sushi

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Contents 1 Sea otters 2 Boats? 3 Kaiten-sushi vs. kaiten-zushi 4 Workflow? 5 Japan Only 6 Is it ACTUALLY moving? 7 Sushi train 8 Belt movement 9 Sushi go round? くるくる寿司? - nitpicking

[edit] Sea otters

Which restaurant in Monterey has sea otters lying on their backs with the sushi on their bellys? I can't find any other mention of such a restaurant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.155.32.17 (talk • contribs) 06:16, December 8, 2005(UTC)

No body answered so I am going to remove all reference to the otters in Monerary, CA serving sushi. This was added in the edit Revision as of 23:44, August 10, 2005 by User:69.107.66.111. Cafe Nervosa | talk01:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boats?

What about sushi in little boats? Is that not the same? Or is that different? user: 64.165.203.98

Basically, yes. In essence, it's still a conveyor belt. It's just designed to look as though the "boats" are floating around; they're not. Exploding Boy 16:48, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

I find it very interesting that someone put a link to dim sum at the bottom of this article. I have always thought of kaiten sushi as the modern Japanese equivalent of dim sum. Great minds think alike I guess (hee..) ::::

[edit] Kaiten-sushi vs. kaiten-zushi

Someone just changed the romanization in the opening paragraph from "kaiten-zushi" to "kaiten-sushi." If nobody objects, I'm going to change it back. Although the standalone word is "sushi," in this compound word it is pronounced "zushi" and I think it should be left as such. -Sarfa 04:10, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Workflow?

Outside special orders, how do the chefs decide what to put on the conveyor belt? 24.237.118.231 00:20, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japan Only

This article only seems to address Kaiten-zushi in Japan. Although it is still relatively small, kaiten-zushi is becoming increasingly popular in America. I feel the article should be revised to not be limited to restaurants in Japan, but include those around the world (i.e. making tea at your table vs. tea being brought to you in America, price not only in yen but in USD equivalent, etc.). Please advise, or feel free to edit as you think would improve the worldly accuracy of this article.

I agree with this assessment - conveyor belt sushi seems to be rapidly becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Here in the United Kingdom, these restaurants seem to be springing up all over the place, mainly courtesy of chains such as Yo! Sushi. 217.155.20.163 17:59, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is it ACTUALLY moving?

I can't see it. I cant see motion. Will some one make an animation of a conveyor belt, so I really know it's moving? 69.179.187.159 02:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sushi train

It is also known as sushi train in Australia.

Is it? I know there's a chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Australia called Sushi Train, but I didn't think it was a generic name for this type of establishment. 217.155.20.163 18:06, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I believe the term Sushi Train has come into use as a colloquial term that encompasses all conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Australia, perhaps an example of genericized trademarks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.168.49 (talk) 12:58, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm from Australia and often refer to it as "Sushi Train". The main Kaiten place in Perth is called Jaws though. Awesome stuff, I had all-you-can-eat there last night. Gemfyre (talk) 01:55, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Belt movement

The belt usually runs clockwise to make it easier to lift the plates off the belt with the left hand while the right hand holds the chopsticks.

This doesn't make sense for two reasons: (a) customers don't necessarily sit facing the belt; (b) in all the restaurants I've seen, the belt is configured so that it doubles back on itself, creating a kind of "2-lane highway" from which it's possible to pick off plates moving in either direction. 217.155.20.163 18:20, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sushi go round? くるくる寿司? - nitpicking

"(also called sushi-go-round (くるくる寿司, kuru kuru sushi?), mainly by foreigners living in Japan)" - sorry, I am a foreigner living in Japan, and I've never called it anything else but "Kaitenzushi". I've never heard either sushi-go-round nor くるくる寿司. According to this Japanese forum (http://kotonoha.cc/no/99668), くるくる寿司 is rather uncommon or children's speech if anything, and it's the name of a (not so well-known) chain. In any case it's not a normal general term.

Since I'm nitpicking anyway, I'd also like to point out that the first sentence, "Conveyor belt sushi [...] is the popular English translation for the Japanese fast-food sushi." is misleading, as it implies that all fast-food sushi is served on a conveyor belt. I'd also count shops that sell sushi bento as fast food.

"However, some traditionalists criticize conveyor belt sushi restaurants as destroying the ritual of eating sushi as many traditional sushi restaurants are driven out of business under competition." I'd like to see a source for that, such as a food critic actually saying this, or statistics with "n sushi shops in town A in 19XX, n/2 sushi shops in town A in 19YY". My impression is that traditional sushi shops and modern high-class sushi restaurants are doing fine, despite the fast-food competition. It's probably more the general shift to western food in Japan since WWII that was a threat to the sushi culture. --Mkill (talk) 02:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)