Food & Drinks
Sushi Pranks at Conveyor Belt Restaurants in Japan Spark Outrage
- Customers filmed themselves licking utensils, touching sushi
- Shares in one restaurant chain plunged when videos went viral
Japan’s famed conveyor-belt sushi restaurants are scrambling to tackle a craze for making viral videos in which customers commit unhygienic acts.
The phenomenon, dubbed “Sushi Terrorism,” gained steam earlier this week after a teenager posted a video to social media filmed in Japan’s largest conveyor belt sushi chain. In it, he licked communal items including a soy sauce bottle and a bowl, and touched sushi as it rolled past with fingers he had put in his mouth.