A viral video trend in Japan already conveyor belt restaurants race to prevent food tampering One chain, Kura Sushi, says it will use artificial intelligence to look for “suspicious opening and closing of sushi plate lids”. reported this week.
chayote to start upgrading an existing camera, which is used to Customers take from the carousel to identify their bill, in early March. If the system detects suspicious behavior, it will alert the staff.
“We want to deploy AI-operated cameras to track whether a customer has ordered the sushi they’ve hand-picked back onto the plate,” a spokesperson said. . “We are confident that we will be able to upgrade the systems we already have in place to deal with these types of behaviour.”
Many in Japan have been outraged by the so-called “sushi terror” trend. Video for everyone to see , such as licking a spoon for a container of green tea powder. Other videos show customers pouring wasabi over sushi as it passes by a conveyor belt.
which had more than 98 million views on Twitter, showing one person licking the mouth of a soy sauce bottle and the mouth of a tea cup before placing them back at a branch of the Sushiro chain. They also licked a finger and touched a passing piece of sushi. The clip and the response to it sent shares of its parent company Sushiro down nearly 5%.
Sushiro said it has replaced all bottles of soy sauce and cleaned every cup at the affected restaurant. Like other conveyor belt sushi chains, it has enacted other policies such as making-to-order food to prevent counterfeiting and assuring hygiene-conscious customers that the restaurant is always clean. will.
Kura Sushi has used AI in other ways. In 2020, it was reported that the company has . At least for the time being, Kura Sushi is buying most of its tuna from outside Japan. The app is supposed to help it gauge the quality of cuts without having to travel amid the pandemic.
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