Funshi
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New concept restaurant. 3 stores so far, based in Cleveland.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/052IhI3BQQs8tv_8MP0Jv3HRQ
Food comes around on a conveyor and you can pick what you want.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f9B9bC2rmo2nEhU1Mb58iAnA
https://share.icloud.com/photos/097XUCT4s7ocCNhx05qV_QmWg
If you want you can get other things on the iPad menu. Tonkatsu ramen:
https://share.icloud.com/photos/03cUMrvXUygPjLmSOoUT6inmw
Jack got chicken nuggets (of course he did). Normally I can’t stand them but these are really good!
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0babaTjauNup3opGU4aqSnlwA
Keep an eye on this company. I think they’re going to be big!
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I first experienced "conveyor belt sushi" in Tokyo, close to 20 years ago. I was quite impressed and had a good time.
Now I see "conveyor belt sushi" restaurants popping up all over the place in the USA. (E.g., https://kurasushi.com/locations ) I like it.
A local "conveyor belt sushi" restaurant also uses robotic servers to serve up drinks. @Steve-Miller did you see robot servers in the one you went to?
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@Steve-Miller Your post is making me think I need to try Sushi Station, which is 10 minutes away from us and has been there for many years. Same concept as Funshi.
Friends who have gone there say it is very good!
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I first experienced "conveyor belt sushi" in Tokyo, close to 20 years ago. I was quite impressed and had a good time.
Now I see "conveyor belt sushi" restaurants popping up all over the place in the USA. (E.g., https://kurasushi.com/locations ) I like it.
A local "conveyor belt sushi" restaurant also uses robotic servers to serve up drinks. @Steve-Miller did you see robot servers in the one you went to?
Yes. There were two robots delivering food.
I’m kind of disappointed - thought I had stumbled on something really new. No matter, it was fun and I liked the food. Jack loves it and we’ll be going back!
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The one in Tokyo ~20 years ago, they used plates of different colors/designs to indicate different pricing for each dish. I just stacked the plates on the side until I was ready to settle the bill, then a server came over to tally the plates and told me how much to pay. [*]
The ones I visit in the US today, all the dishes off the constantly moving conveyor belt are priced the same, and there is only one plate design. I insert empty plates into a plate return slot specific to my assigned seat that, I believe, drops the plates onto yet another conveyor belt to bring the empty plates back to the kitchen. The number of plates are automatically tallied for final billing as I insert them into the plate return slot.
Also, reflecting different food safety regulations, the ones in Japan were served on the conveyor belt without cover, whereas the ones in the US today are covered under plastic domes on the conveyor belt.
Also, in the U.S. ones that I have visited, there is yet a third conveyor belt that's only used when I order "special items" -- dishes that I would order explicitly using a tablet interface, as oppose to dishes regularly replenished onto the main conveyor belt by the kitchen without anyone ordering them explicitly.
[*] The old Tokyo system reminds me of yet another old restaurant billing system that I don't see anymore -- using differently colored plastic spoons to indicate different prices for drinks. Every drink was served with a plastic spoon. When the patrons are ready to pay, the server would tally up the cost of drinks by the differently colored spoons they see on the table.
