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  rjd_jr at 06:49 AM JST - 3rd May

  No big deal, restaurants all over serve leftover food. That bread basket everyone loves, and the butter that comes with it? Yup, same stuff from days before, just pick up what others didn't eat and it's yours. And so on. No big deal.

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  romulus3 at 08:23 AM JST - 3rd May

  the problem is that there was no envelope of cash given to the health board officer assigned to there district so they were investigated, NO, persecuted for wrongs imaginary or real. In the land of "key money" {which romulus has never and will never pay)its an insult not to pay.

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  some14some at 08:59 AM JST - 3rd May

  I feel sorry for the customers saying 'itadaki masu - Oishii kata' while eating leftover food... unhygienic food & unhealthy business ethics in Japan. Again...shouganai...?

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  okapake at 12:05 PM JST - 3rd May

  To me "leftover food" implies something already prepared, be it from a previous diner or whatever. That I would not appreciate. But "expired consumption date" is a different animal.

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  cleo at 01:10 PM JST - 3rd May

  This is supposed to be a top-of-the-scale restaurant; they're taking sashimi and tempura that they've already sold to one customer, and selling it at the same price to the next customer?? If it's not unhygienic, it's still a fiddle.

  At this class of restaurant the bread and butter comes free (not that this restaurant serves bread, it's a ryotei, but you can probably have as much rice and tea with your dinner as you like, free) and so long as it's handled hygienically there's probably no problem. But charging twice for the same food is definitely a no-no in my book. And if I were going to eat raw fish (which I'm not) I don't think I'd be happy knowing it had been sitting in a warm restaurant on someone else's table for an hour before it came to me.

  Two scandals in the space of six months - I reckon it's time for this operation to fold.

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  paolo27th at 01:10 PM JST - 3rd May

  rjd_jr, I worked in many restaurants and never seen the practices you talk about. But I think this article fails to define what it means with the word "leftover". U prepared a platter too many for a party and you just give it to the next ones? Unless you have it laying there for hours I hardly see anything wrong with it. If on the other hand you reuse what you scrape off the customers' plates in the washing-up area I just hope they throw you in prison and leave you there for quite some time. So what was the case here?

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  cleo at 01:26 PM JST - 3rd May

  They for example 're-grilled a sweetfish left by one customer, and served it to another'. The Japanese term used is tsukaimawashi, which means they passed it from customer to customer, not that they made too much and used the surplus elsewhere.

  お客様に出した状態のままで調理場に下がってきた時のみ、状態を見極め使い回しをした (Only when something that had been served to a customer came back untouched, we checked that it was OK and sent it out to another customer)

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  tclh at 07:16 PM JST - 3rd May

  (Only when something that had been served to a customer came back untouched, we checked that it was OK and sent it out to another customer) This is a no no,because when customers talk,the sashimi served in front of them will be covered with their saliva which can carry bacteria or virus...just think this uneaten sashimi will be served again to me,the next customer, makes my appetite go away.

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  mike46 at 09:23 AM JST - 4th May

  I eat left over food all the time and don't have a problem with it - I do have a problem with paying for it though - especially if it has already been paid for by someone else.

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  paolo27th at 11:00 AM JST - 4th May

  cleo thanks for clearing that up. Ok, that's despicable. But at the end of this article it says the practice is not illegal as long as food safety is preserved. But I just don't see how they could guarantee any degree of safety after the food had been played around with by the customers. So yes, I hope they do end up in prison and their business folds.

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  HoDeDo at 04:33 PM JST - 5th May

  This practice is not illegal? It's unethical to charge twice for the same product.

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