Following the discovery of a rat and an insect in its dishes, a chain of Japanese restaurants had to close its 2,000 establishments. The company presented its “most sincere apologies” in the face of growing controversy. © Budrul Chukrut/Sopa Images/Lightrocket/Getty Images – The Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya must close four days for health reasons! Save save Receive catering alerts Imagine all McDonald’s restaurants closed for a week throughout France. In Japan, the largest restaurant chain is called Sukiya. And according to Le Parisien, all its establishments have been closed from Monday, March 31 and until April 4 throughout the country. A rare decision, and which will cost him very dear, but necessary to extinguish the controversy. Indeed, Friday, March 28, contamination by insects took place in one of the restaurants in the suburbs of Tokyo. The chain made its specialty the gyudon, this famous bowl of hot rice surmounted by beef, onion and sometimes egg strips. The problem is that a few weeks earlier, another equally serious health incident occurred in the city of Tottori. A rat had been found in a bowl of Miso soup. Result: the time to carry out a large cleaning of its restaurants, the 2,000 stores in the country are closed for four days. Read also: Sanitary control: “restaurateurs think turnover, we, food security” A soup “not visually verified” only a few can remain open, said the management of Sukiya, who ensures “take very seriously and sincerity” the situation. On the social network X, management adds: “We will do our best to maintain a safe and clean environment.” The company obviously presented its “most sincere excuses”, being taken in a media storm. Because according to our colleagues from the Parisian, if the rat incident in the Miso soup took place in January, Sukiya only confirmed the incident in March. According to the catering chain, the fault would return to an employee who “did not visually check” the soup before serving it, but it ensures that it will implement “additional measures to prevent the entry of harmful and rodents”. Regarding the incident of March 28, an investigation is underway to determine the causes. Read also: the Bernard Loiseau group conquering Japan: when French gastronomy exports a major sanitary incident in 2024 already each resumption, the two restaurants had been closed on the field, time to carry out cleaning and extermination work of harmful. Sukiya wanted to reassure by ensuring that all employees had “received rigorous training on the management of hygiene, in particular the visual inspection of products before serving them”. Obviously not enough. If the reminders are rare in the country, recalls TF1, in 2024, 100,000 packets of sliced bread had been recalled after pieces of rat (already) were found in two bags. Receive our latest news each morning, most of the Capital news. (tagstranslate) Restoration
