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       Stardate: 20210722.1603
       Location: Kura Revolving Sushi Bar
       Input Device: Gemini PDA
       Audio: v a p o r w a v e
       Visual: Various sushi on a conveyor belt
       Emotional State: hunger, dunno, ask me later.
       
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       I decided to try out this fairly new sushi bar at the mall.  It has 
       this double-decker conveyor belt that delivers sushi on these plates
       with a transparent flip-up lid.  The main conveyor belt with the 
       usual suspects are on the bottom and the special orders are up top.
       They calibrated the top belt to automatically stop at your seat 
       with your special order.  Special orders are placed from a tablet 
       mounted above the top belt in front of your seat, where you can also
       call the server and close out your check.  The conveyor belts 
       wraps around the restaurant and seating, including the booths.  
       There is a slot in the counter/table where you deposit your empty 
       plates.  They determine your bill by your plate count.  Pretty neat
       and high tech.  It looks like they even have a mobile app and also
       gamified the experience.  I went here during non-busy hours because 
       I heard that there was usually a line during regular meal times.
       
       This reminded me of a few conveyor belt style sushi bars that I have 
       been to.  The first one I went to was in Japan back in 2000, which
       blew my mind.  This concept of sushi on a conveyor belt with the
       different colored plates for the pricing was amazing!  Where else
       would this type of automation happening in a public setting?  Stuff
       like this always drew me to Japan.  
       
       Fortunately, most of the items that were on the conveyor belt in
       Japan I could not identify.  This sushi was not the thawed-out sushi
       that I had become accustomed to in the Western World, no, this was
       the fresh fish of the East!  The fish that lives in that part of 
       the world that I knew nothing about.  The same fish that swam with
       Gojira!  So not only did I get a new experience of sushi being
       delivered to my via conveyor belt, but also I got to experience
       consuming possibly radioactive fish that I could not identify.
       DOUBLE WIN!
       
       When I moved out West, I found other conveyor belt or revolving sushi
       bars.  One even used boats tethered together,  floating on a "river" 
       of water surrounding the sushi chefs, who were stationed in the 
       middle and the customers on the other side of the river.
       
       I just checked the web site[1] for the Kura restaurant and it looks 
       like they have over 450 locations throughout the world.  If you like 
       sushi and have an opportunity to experience Kura, do check it out!
       (Please note that I am in no way any kind of sushi connoisseur, but
       their sushi tasted good to me and I enjoyed the experience!)
       
 (HTM) [1] Kura Revolving Sushi Bar
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