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  chardk1 at 04:51 PM JST - 18th June

  It seems like Yoshinoyas in the US use much lower quality meat and rice than in counterparts in Japan. And no, I am not praising Japanese Yoshinoyas when I say that. I ate at them all the time when I lived in LA (take it home, get a little kimchi, a little hot sauce . . . plus they sent out 2-for-1 coupons all the time) but even I had to admit they were hideous. So I can't say it comes as a surprise.

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  romulus3 at 05:13 PM JST - 18th June

  jerseyboy ,

  > Proving once again that New Yorkers have better taste in food than their J-counterparts.

  give me a break. each culture has their own specific preferences for cuisine. non is better than the other. its all relative. Gees, you really are anti-Japanese. any chance to slam them, you take it, even when completely unwarranted.

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  PepinGalarga at 05:59 PM JST - 18th June

  i used to live in NYC for a few years and every time i walked by it was packed. Once i tried it and waited 10 minutes in the line to order. independent of the food quality, i am sure they weren't doing as bad as they say saleswise. That location is prime, and would be practically impossible to go broke there, however, these people blew it for sure.

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  capone at 06:24 PM JST - 18th June

  noborito: more like crap food=bankruptcy

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  stanoue at 06:38 PM JST - 18th June

  Noborito - Im surprised the Yoshinoya in Sydney is still open, too. Hardly any customers and expensive! Like $6-9 for the beef bowls. Not that good either.

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  Beelzebub at 10:44 PM JST - 18th June

  Once I told a friend I had eaten there, and his response was, "Oh, gross!"

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  Sarge at 10:53 PM JST - 18th June

  They should have been serving the eel bowls they have now in Japan. Hee!

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  OssanULTRA at 12:17 AM JST - 19th June

  "Proving once again that New Yorkers have better taste in food than their J-counterparts."

  As a life long New Yorker I an tell you that the above is total garbage. The food is far far better in Japan for the simple reason that there is so much competition that any food restablishment that serves the kind of crap we get in NY (excluding the very upper end places) would be out of business in a matter of weeks.

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  thepro at 12:22 AM JST - 19th June

  To hell with gyudon, I wish we could get some good New York style pizza here instead.

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  OssanULTRA at 01:10 AM JST - 19th June

  I've been to the Yoshinoya's on 46th and and 42nd st. Both of them had Japanese managers when they opened. Now it's mostly se habla espanol top to bottom. You gotta ASK for chopsticks. Food quality is pretty lousy, well below what you get in Japan. Even the rice is weird. Oddly you see alot of Chinese customers in them though. I'm really not surprised that the NY operations are having problems.

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  raymech1 at 01:53 AM JST - 19th June

  Well, I guess I did'nt miss anything from what i'm hearing about their NY location

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  chardk1 at 05:33 PM JST - 19th June

  There is no question that NYC has great food, but only an idiot would claim Tokyo is not one of the great cities of the world in that regard. Not only that, a whole bunch of the best, most expensive restaurants in NYC have Japanese chefs.

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  deemaak99 at 12:13 AM JST - 20th June

  I've lived in NYC for 6 years and been to almost to all of the best and most expensive restaurants in city. I'm also a frequent visitor to Tokyo, and Paris. I must say Tokyo and Paris by far have a higher quality of food and restaurants in average than New York. The standard in New York in average is compare to the bottom tail of Tokyo and Paris. I would give Tokyo and Paris a 10 star while New York receive only about 4 star.

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  PepinGalarga at 12:18 PM JST - 20th June

  this has not much to do with New York food vs. Japanese food. The novelty factor wore out. On a corporate level they probably forced the franchisee to source most of the food (except beef of course) from Japan at inflated prices. Given they only have a couple franchises, they had to pay the bulk of the logistics costs (compare this to McD's which probably brings hundreds of containers per month into Manhattan). They also got squeezed out by the rent, not selling enough $$$ per square foot to break even. However, many of the stores next to the Yoshinoya, are not big sellers either, so it makes me wonder.

  More than 100 of the Cold Stone Creamery have also gone broke, and it may be for similar reasons, although Ice Cream is definitely a luxury disposable good, versus the bottom of the barrel nature of Yoshinoya. There is a Ben & Jerry's around the corner on 8th Avenue which i think is still there and is doing well.

  There's definitely no guilty feeling about going to Yoshinoya to eat, the only bad feeling one could have is about maybe not earning enough paper and having to settle for that crap...

  by the way, in NYC if you dont "habla" you won't be able to sell jack s***. Millions of people there speak Spanish as a first language. Would YOU go all the way to Japan to become a manager at a McDonald's?????

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  japanyesterday at 02:04 PM JST - 20th June

  beef bowl in NYC, not a good look. i remember passing the restaurant a few years ago, thing big as hell as if it was some popular fast food joint. unless theyre just following the hype, i dont see how anyone can look past all that great food in nyc and go get a beef bowl. those ghetto chinese restaurants > beef bowl.

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