How to meet my needs for a Japanese AYCE restaurant:
1. Serve at least moderate quality food.
2. Bring me that moderate quality food really really quickly.
Kaka checks both boxes on that list for me.
I went with my family recently to Kaka in Markham. It was priced on the higher end of AYCE at $29 for an adult lunch on a weekend. They use the fancy schmancy iPad-based ordering systems which makes life so much easier than having to write stuff down, or to flag down a server. Food selection variety was good, and 95% of the food was something I would be satisfied with at a sit down non-AYCE Japanese restaurant. The only exception was the clearly still frozen salmon sashimi. This dropped my rating 0.5 stars.
Service was top notch. Everyone was friendly and brought food over real quick, which is exactly what you want when you're stuffing your face. No complaints whatsoever about service during the meal. However, as we neared the 1 hour mark, we were told that this was "last call" and that we had to leave. WTF? So if you're expecting to be able to sit and eat and eat and eat (which fatties like myself enjoy), then you're shit out of luck here. You're capped at an hour of gorging yourself. This dropped my rating another 0.5 stars.
All in all, I was pleased with the experience at Kaka. By the way, does anyone else find it a little weird that the restaurant's name, spelled differently but sounding the same, means shit in Spanish (ca ca)?