Instead of placing sushi on a rotating conveyor belt for customers to pick up — famously known as “kaiten” style — three stores will replicate the experience through animation played on a ...

More and more conveyor belt sushi restaurant chains have abandoned the practice of serving sushi on a rotating conveyor belt. Some restaurants have introduced touchscreens that present images of ...

Conveyor-belt sushi chains are facing an existential crisis. Although the automated, rotating serving system has been on a decreasing trend for several years, chain operators were confronted with ...

Earlier this month, Tokyo-based YouTuber TkyoSam put a GoPro on the conveyer belt at a Sushiro rotating sushi restaurant. The chain has issued an apology and is now banning photography in their ...

TOKYO: Rotating conveyor belts, a once iconic staple of sushi-chain restaurants in Japan, are quickly sliding into history. While the decline is not new, the popularity of the automated belts took ...

Kura has been selling sushi pulley-style over the past five decades. The first opened in 1977 in Japan. Since then, the chain has grown to more than 500 locations across Japan, Taiwan and the U.S.

Instead of placing sushi on a rotating conveyor belt for customers to pick up — famously known as “kaiten” style — three stores will replicate the experience through animation played on a ...

Inspired by viral online videos, pranksters filmed themselves licking shared soy sauce bottles or tampering with food rotating on conveyor belts at the chain’s restaurants. Police have arrested ...

Tokyo/Hong Kong (CNN) — A Japanese sushi chain targeted in a spate of pranks that has sparked concern over hygiene has devised a digital conveyor belt to serve food to customers. Instead of ...

Tokyo/Hong Kong (CNN) — A Japanese sushi chain targeted in a spate of pranks that has sparked concern over hygiene has devised a digital conveyor belt to serve food to customers. Instead of ...