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| - UPDATE: I was going to let this go but it's just not right for you to make misrepresentations to your customers, especially about serving sizes. Aside from being unethical, many of us rely on that information for dietary purposes etc.
The photos from your own previous yelp reviews clearly show that you have cut your serving sizes in half between March and August based on when the photos in the reviews were taken and posted. Feel free to a look at the photos I have I uploaded for you and others to see. It's obvious what size scoopers you used before and are using now. And neither of them are 1.5 oz as you represent in your response. They WERE 2 oz each, now they ARE 1 oz each., plain and simple. I was there more recently and they were still the 1 oz scoops just like the photos.
Your response is not only false, it's laughable and an insult to people's intelligence. Let me see if I got this right, you changed your bowl size to make it smaller because they were "too large" and had "empty space"? Seriously? What a joke. Just tell your customers the truth and tell them you lowered your serving sizes from 2 ounces to 1 ounce. Many of your reviews already address this issue so obviously I am not alone.
Very disappointing....
This was the third stop on my Tour D' Poke. I actually have been here twice and planned to write a review the first time I was here (which would have been a three star review). I found myself in the neighborhood and came back hoping to see an improvement from when they were new. Although the place still looks great and the people were friendly enough, unfortunately the fish is still mediocre at best. Not the level of freshness or sushi grade like some others. The first time I came, which was a couple months after they opened, I asked one of the employees where they buy their fish and after checking, he said "Restaurant Depot" which explained the marginal freshness and quality factor. Not saying it's bad, just not five or even four star worthy if you ask me. Also I found the sauce to be a bit bland.
This time around I would say everything was on par with my first visit except they have greatly reduced the serving sizes of the scoops of fish. In fact, I took a photo on my first visit and the serving utensils in the bowls were way different. They used to use what I believe were 2 oz spoons and now they use what appears to be a 1 oz scooper. Interestingly these utensils are color coded by serving size and you can find them easily online at restaurant supply websites. It was easy to research and verify this and I will be considering this information when I evaluate others. So basically they went from 3 stars to 2 because of the much smaller portions (50% of what they used to serve and what others currently serve).
Respectfully, my experiences were not at all consistent with their current yelp score and not nearly as good as the competition with the same score.
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