Sushi Restaurants, though a common sight in Japan, is a novelty in countries around the world. However, with the permeation of Japanese food and culture worldwide, this is no longer the case as sushi restaurants open up in large numbers around the world. And despite that, there is ever increasing demand for more sushi. To address this demand, competitors from around the world are stepping up to the challenge. But as a prospective sushi business owner, do you have what it takes to stand out from the crowd. Do you have what it takes to be the sushi restaurant?

Today, we will take a look at how sushi business and sushi restaurants in Japan functions as well as the problems and complications they face along with the solutions that have worked best for them.

Owning a Sushi Business in Japan

Owning a sushi restaurant in Japan requires filling out very large shoes indeed. The competition that exists is fierce and customers are usually very critical and discerning in their tastes. As such, many businesses ensure their ingredients are ordered on a day to day basis to ensure maximum freshness and quality.  As a go to option, the Toyosu Fish Market is often the best choice as it is Japan’s biggest and most highly regarded fish market. In fact, many sushi restaurants marketing themselves with the idea that their fish are directly delivered from Toyosu Fish Market every morning, to ensure the customer the freshness of their sushi.

Once the fish that is to be served is acquired in the early hours of the morning, the chefs then get to work on preparing them in the earnest. In addition to this, the rice that is to be used in the preparation of the sushi is also prepared at this stage. There is a saying in Japan that when it comes to Sushi, the flavor and texture of the rice makes up for 80% of the experience. Keeping that in mind, most sushi restaurants in Japan, finish their preparations hours beforehand service so that all the aspects of the culinary experience are laid down.

Sometimes, sushi chefs choose to preserve their sushi in different ways. For example, while most sushi chefs use refrigerators or flash freezers to store their sushi, some can also go the more traditional route and preserve the sushi with salt like it was done in the Edo Period. Hence the name, Edomae Sushi.

After all, preparations are complete, the establishments then open for a day or night of long business. While most businesses are run small scale with just one chef, a lot of establishments employ multiple chefs who have received years of training in the field to be accomplished at what they do.

However, this can often be extremely expensive in the long run as the costs for paying for extra staff do add up over time.
Because of this, several establishments around Japan, both large and small have started using sushi machines. These sushi restaurants include many chained sushi restaurants (kaiten sushi restaurants), which offers affordable sushi. These more affordable sushi restaurants are often easily accessed for anyone that has a craving for sushi. So how can these sushi restaurants offer affordable sushi? What is their secret? Keep on reading to find out.

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Rising use of the Sushi Machine in Restaurant

There is a common misconception surrounding the use of a sushi machine wherein, some “sushi purists” believe that sushi should only be made by hand in order to preserve the quality and experience. While this may seem true at first glance, the real situation and circumstances surrounding the sushi machine matter choose to differ.

To begin with, a sushi machine merely assists the chef in producing sushi faster. Take the example of our maki sushi machine. This sushi machine assists the chef by helping gently loosen the rice, maintain the right temperature and spread out the rice evenly and into the desired thickness. Depending on the sushi machine model, some sushi machines are even capable of assisting in the rolling of sushi rolls. At this point, the chef has to step in and fill up the sushi with the required ingredients before rolling the sushi either by hand or using one of our sushi machine rollers to ensure perfectly shaped and perfectly thick sushi rolls each and every time.

Making delicious food is an art and each individually handcrafted sushi, an artwork. But art itself would not evolve, if the critic only ever accepted the pencil and not the paint brush, the paint brush but not the pen, the pen but not the computer.

As with all works of art, there is evolution. And so it is the same for the art of Sushi Making.

The point of a sushi machine is to enable one to get the technicalities and repetitive tasks out of the way so that the chefs can focus on the ingredients, the technique, the quality, and the presentation. By doing so, chefs can come up with new and creative ideas and improve on their current recipes.

Wherever technology permeates, progress follows. This is not to say the human element is removed. After all, food without a soul is just sustenance. With proper usage, a sushi machine can take the place of an assistant chef, creating a “partnership”. A partnership that eventually we benefit from.

Purchasing Sushi Machine for your restaurant

If after reading this, you believe that owning a sushi machine would be beneficial for you and your business, then please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We take pride in our determination to help our clients achieve the best results with the product that is best suited for their business and its unique needs. After all, success for the client is a success for us. Kind of fitting to be called a partnership wouldn’t you say?
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