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| - I would give this restaurant 0 stars if I could.
I'm a student at the high school across the street and every time I walk in there, I am absolutely appalled at the service and the abhorrent way they treat people. The owners are incredibly stingy; for example, when I bought a dish there for take-out, they gave me one plastic fork. I asked for another one, and they wouldn't give it to me unless I paid 25 cents (which is not a big deal, really). This is, all in all, a very small thing.
My larger issue is with the attitude they seem to have towards us high school students. The place is practically always empty, except for during lunchtimes when students flood in to buy food. Their main business essentially comes from the high school students. In light of this fact, you'd think they would treat them well and with dignity. I think this is basic human decency, regardless of the context. However, every time I go in there (which is almost never, because I refuse to give them my business), I am astonished at how they seem to patronize every high school kid. I understand that there are a lot of high schoolers who are probably rude and who loiter, but that is absolutely NO excuse for the businessowners to act as unprofessionally as they do. An example: They have a sign on their door that says 'No Outside Food or Drink", which is perfectly fine. Today, however, I was there briefly and witnessed the owner yelling at the top of her lungs at a group of kids who had brought in their own food. They looked perplexed and said that they had bought a dish, but the woman shrieked that she doesn't care and that they can go eat their own food outside and a slew of more inappropriately rude words. The proper way to deal with this, as a businessowner, (no matter how irritated you may be) is to politely ask these people not to bring their own food in or to politely ask them to leave. It is incredibly, unbelievably degrading the way that the owners treat high schoolers seemingly just because we are teenagers. Someone's age doesn't give you the right to degrade them and treat them as if they are parasites, ESPECIALLY when this very person is your patron.
I am simply in disbelief at this behaviour. Not to mention that their food is not good at all. On the occasions that I have eaten there, I have been extremely disappointed with the service (takes like 20 minutes to make one sushi roll) and with the actual quality of the food. Literally the only incentive for ever buying food there is just lack of other options across from our high school. That's it. The quality of food there is not even comparable to the quality at places like Ginza or 168 sushi for virtually the same price.
Again, if I could give this place a zero, I would. If I could give it a negative number, I would. I refuse to give business to such rude people and I urge everyone else to do the same.
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