The restaurant chain, Kura Sushi, has resorted to the weapon of artificial intelligence to spy on the petty games of malevolent customers. In a Covid-conscious world, sushi conveyor-belt restaurants are more likely to be bypassed within their unmonitored, free-reign delicacy to customers, who could be, in fact, anyone.
The viral video trend has sushi train restaurants fretting about the state of their business with the tampering of the food for views. The Japanese sushi goers are mortified by the coined 'sushi terrorists', with videos revealing unsanitary acts of people licking utensils and contaminating the sushi on the plates with either their salvia, their fingers or unholy amounts of wasabi.
Sushiro sushi chain fell victim to these terror-filled crimes, the video gaining over 98 million views on Twitter of a customer licking the tops of soy sauce bottles and teacups. They have since cleaned every vessel in their restaurant and are now returning to made-to-order sushi.
Initially set to guarantee the correct bill per sushi taken off the belt, the cameras used by Kura Sushi will now detect hygiene-related and questionable behaviour. The AI can alert the employees on such attacks, such as the more innocent act of a customer placing sushi they have picked up back onto the belt. It will be in action by early March. In the digital age, where viral videos are a resort to futile fame, a similar artillery is needed alike.
