Japanese restaurant fines customers for not finishing meal

A restaurant in Japan is fining customers who don’t finish their meals.

The story was first reported by www.Gawker. RocketNews reports that Hachikyo, a seafood restaurant in Sapporo, charges customers who don’t finish every last bit of food on their plates. The experience is kind of like being a kid again. But instead of not getting dessert for cleaning your plate, you walk away with a slightly slimmer wallet.

Blogger Midori Yokoyama at Gold Rush explained the fine is for a good cause. The restaurant owners want to honor the fishermen who brave dangerous conditions to provide the delicious food.

Customers who order the tsukko meshi, a bowl of rice topped with salmon roe, are warned ahead of time. “It is forbidden to leave even one grain of rice in your bowl. Customers who don’t finish their tsukko meshi must give a donation.”

No word on the size of the fine, but it is apparently rare that someone doesn’t actually finish. Yokoyama wrote that he was initially nervous about ordering food that came with strings attached, but the waitress assured him that “hardly anyone leaves their tsukko meshi unfinished.”

Below, a video of a masked Yokoyama visiting the restaurant…


8 thoughts on “Japanese restaurant fines customers for not finishing meal

  • nancylee

    This masked man is freaking me out!

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  • herbysan

    Ask Him Out On A Date Nancy~~~ Yikes~~~ Hold Me~~~

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  • Anonymous

    There is a slight resemblance, Herby!!

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  • Anonymous

    It’s rare to hear nancylee is freaked out, so this must be big. Perhaps it’s a way for clandestine restaurant critics in Japan to remain anonymous?
    My bet is a lot of diners clean their roe bowls with their napkins to escape the glutton penalty.

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  • Anonymous

    Another useless Herbysan post hitting on with the females 🙁

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  • herbysan

    Wow~~~ Your Aggressive Tonight~~~ Hope I Can Still Get My 12 Hours Of Sleep In Tonight After That Comment~~~

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  • herbysan

    I See That~~~ We Both Have Pouty Lips~~~ Good Eye~~~

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  • Anonymous

    Give Peace A Chance!

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