Something tells me the wife was the biggest issue. He had confident issues and his wife didnt help. If she was more supportive then it could've been different. He was the real hard worker it seemed in the end.
honestly it was the owner's fault i remember watching this the chef was like he wouldve love to serve fresh sashimi but the owner didnt get it for them
@canyounawt1450 sure good quality fish costs more but if you can only afford low quality fish then you can't serve it as sushi. With low quality fish just fry it in batter or even better switch to vegetarian dishes completely if you can't afford quality meats.
@@JohannLudwigEdel lower quality sushi-grade fish. They’re still considered fresh enough to be serve as sushi. Most of the lower end cheap sushi places uses these quality of fish
I used to work at a luxury retail store in 2016 or 2017 that Akira would come to! 😊 He used to record videos or maybe live videos of the products we sold I think to potential buyers. He was very polite, always smiling, and quiet. He never came up to us but was focused on his work. I had no idea he was in a tv show or was even a chef!! He was such a nice man and I can't believe his wife was so disrespectful to him or that Gordon yelled at him 😮 All of us that worked at the store had so much respect for him! It's like yelling at a puppy, i just can't believe all that he went through 😢
i think akira would've been better off if he still worked at that other sushi ko or remained chef of a sushi restaurant instead of owning his own restaurant. restaurants have such high failure rate unless you have the perfect criterias ticked off such as good location, good food, good service, loyal following, non stop business etc it's lots of ups and downs. sure you hear about some restaurants that lasted for decades passing through the family through generations but for every one of those stories you hear about 20 that failed within hte first year or 5. a lot of these restaurant owners also dont know when to cut the cord like they don't have a limit of how much debt before to pull the plug.
From watching Kitchen Nightmares for years and can summarise that most people are great employees - once they become owners everything crumbled. People underestimate how difficult being a business owner is. How ruthless and disciplined with staff you have to be.
@leunga crazy part is with Akira he was even manager of the last sushi place he worked at with all that experience in the ins and outs of a sushi restaurant even they wasn't enough to transition to being a owner
Imho, the owners needs have their lunar birth dates check by a Feng Shui master to check for compatibility of doing business in that area. How can Akira not know this?
@johnlove6194 Akira is Japanese, not Chinese, and not everyone checks Fenshui even for Asian. Only pp have chinese blood mostly checks it. But in my country we asked the monk to bless the place and made a guardian house for the shop. We offer them coffee or fruit on every holy day( within our calendar) to the guardian. We also asked pp with the ability to look at the land and see if there is sth wrong.
Sad to hear that they closed before the episode even released. I felt bad for Akira, I feel like he wasn't ignorant, I think he was lacking in confidence and didn't dare be ambitious enough to make it work.
I watched the og ep and i saw a comment that explained Akira's behavior, which i was also going to make a comment about in Japanese culture its common for people in a lower level (employee to manager, manager to ceo. that kind of thing) to hold back on talking back to their seniors. In this case, Gordon is Akira's senior due to his higher level and experience. that couldve been one of the reasons of his silence and lack of response idk if i worded any of that correctly.
Well some times is not the restaurant is the location, you can see for all the restaurants fail in that location no matter is a Michelin star it'll fail
You don’t need that many chefs to run the kitchen, for a size of that restaurant, hire a couple of decent real Japanese chef, no offend to westerner chefs, this can fix the business, the owner also needs to have a backbone.
In sports, sometimes great players do not make good coaches. In this case, a master sushi chef did not make a good restaurant owner. Food quality is always #1. Get that right and remain consistent, and then you'll have repeat customers.
Dawm.. was making the bucks as a Chef. Head got to big. Fused pizza which has to be cooked and sushi which can be eaten raw... I think it was two cultures that fused at love tried to fuse in food
"Are you sure that Akira is real Japanesse, because judging from his behaviour he more act like some cheapskate Chinesse people instead of japanesse who pursuing perfection in everything they did !"....🤔🤨😒
I think the salmon needs to be frozen to a certain point to kill the parasites and bacteria, but it may have been that the salmon they used has been sitting in the freezer for a long time to the point it wasn’t fresh anymore
I think to make eateries more successful, they need a built in Market.. For example, tie it with something.. Look at Truck Stop, this guy put an great Indian Restaurant. People come to him for the gas to fill their car more because they like his food, n he has more business... Same with Supermarkets with Condos next to them.. People who live in a Condo complex will go to the supermarket built with it - like Wegmans.. I think that may be the future, tie your food options with a built in market that is a necessity.. Another example is you do gig delivery groceries, why not add in you own eatery online.. Instead of picking up orders from restaurants, why not market an eatery.. If you know what kind of groceries they buy, you have an idea of what kind of foods they may want.. So sometimes they may not have the time, so they can order a prepared food from the same app.. They do this a lot in grocery chains.. You see buffets, sandwiches, fried chicken n even sushi.. How much you think these groceries are taking away from the restaurants ? A LOT !!!
This is my THEORY of Food - Eatery Business.. You should tie Condos, with Supermarket and Eatery all together.. Look at Wegmen supermarket.. They have condos right next to the Supermarket.. I think they own the condos n rent it or sell each unit.. They also probably market Wegman to the Condos.. This way they have a built in Market. Their weakness is the Eatery.. They on-site eatery sucks, their pizza is too bready.. What Wegman needs is a better eatery inside their supermarket.. That's the TRIPLE endente - Residence, Groceries and Eatery in One Whole Unit..
Eric didn’t kill himself from pjs steakhouse I trollled multiple kitchen nightmares videos throughout the years usually drunk haha. Let the pigeons fly! I can’t believe it’s in your video and that many ppl heard my rumor
Something tells me the wife was the biggest issue. He had confident issues and his wife didnt help. If she was more supportive then it could've been different. He was the real hard worker it seemed in the end.
How can you support bad food and bad restaurant management. Just quit.
honestly it was the owner's fault i remember watching this the chef was like he wouldve love to serve fresh sashimi but the owner didnt get it for them
Fresh/higher quality costs more and they been going broke. I think it’s more of the owners wasn’t able to afford it
But sushi or sashimi are about freshness of ingredient
@canyounawt1450 sure good quality fish costs more but if you can only afford low quality fish then you can't serve it as sushi. With low quality fish just fry it in batter or even better switch to vegetarian dishes completely if you can't afford quality meats.
@@JohannLudwigEdel lower quality sushi-grade fish. They’re still considered fresh enough to be serve as sushi. Most of the lower end cheap sushi places uses these quality of fish
Thumbnail is just clickbait and misleading. Could have just put a picture of a restaurant being shut down instead at least
This channel has horrible thumbnails that the people who he put there can sue them.
Another channel had a video about this. This channel is over a year behind.
I used to work at a luxury retail store in 2016 or 2017 that Akira would come to! 😊 He used to record videos or maybe live videos of the products we sold I think to potential buyers. He was very polite, always smiling, and quiet. He never came up to us but was focused on his work. I had no idea he was in a tv show or was even a chef!! He was such a nice man and I can't believe his wife was so disrespectful to him or that Gordon yelled at him 😮 All of us that worked at the store had so much respect for him! It's like yelling at a puppy, i just can't believe all that he went through 😢
His wife had beat him down
Isnt their daughter Star Trek actress Hana Hatea?
If u watch the whole video, yes.
Yes
i think akira would've been better off if he still worked at that other sushi ko or remained chef of a sushi restaurant instead of owning his own restaurant. restaurants have such high failure rate unless you have the perfect criterias ticked off such as good location, good food, good service, loyal following, non stop business etc it's lots of ups and downs. sure you hear about some restaurants that lasted for decades passing through the family through generations but for every one of those stories you hear about 20 that failed within hte first year or 5. a lot of these restaurant owners also dont know when to cut the cord like they don't have a limit of how much debt before to pull the plug.
From watching Kitchen Nightmares for years and can summarise that most people are great employees - once they become owners everything crumbled.
People underestimate how difficult being a business owner is. How ruthless and disciplined with staff you have to be.
@leunga crazy part is with Akira he was even manager of the last sushi place he worked at with all that experience in the ins and outs of a sushi restaurant even they wasn't enough to transition to being a owner
The owner is inept. His wife no longer has respect for him. His chefs don't seem to care. Why are they surprised?
Not to be superstitious, but as someone from SEA, this could lead to a belief that the land is really cursed. Let's see if the new one will stand.
Imho, the owners needs have their lunar birth dates check by a Feng Shui master to check for compatibility of doing business in that area. How can Akira not know this?
@johnlove6194 Akira is Japanese, not Chinese, and not everyone checks Fenshui even for Asian. Only pp have chinese blood mostly checks it. But in my country we asked the monk to bless the place and made a guardian house for the shop. We offer them coffee or fruit on every holy day( within our calendar) to the guardian. We also asked pp with the ability to look at the land and see if there is sth wrong.
it's weird cuz most of those items on the Menu would probably be a huge hit today.. with tiktok and stuff.
If this happened today and with the whole Gordon Ramsey thing it would have been a different story. Esp with social media
Sad to hear that they closed before the episode even released. I felt bad for Akira, I feel like he wasn't ignorant, I think he was lacking in confidence and didn't dare be ambitious enough to make it work.
I watched the og ep and i saw a comment that explained Akira's behavior, which i was also going to make a comment about
in Japanese culture its common for people in a lower level (employee to manager, manager to ceo. that kind of thing) to hold back on talking back to their seniors. In this case, Gordon is Akira's senior due to his higher level and experience. that couldve been one of the reasons of his silence and lack of response
idk if i worded any of that correctly.
You got it. I pretty sure some cultures difference could have affected their business
@@anthonyregino3616 :D
I am appalled by this sushi establishment
Well some times is not the restaurant is the location, you can see for all the restaurants fail in that location no matter is a Michelin star it'll fail
You don’t need that many chefs to run the kitchen, for a size of that restaurant, hire a couple of decent real Japanese chef, no offend to westerner chefs, this can fix the business, the owner also needs to have a backbone.
Sushi Pizza. He was Japanese himself but created that abomination of a food. 😂 No wonder they didn't last.
In sports, sometimes great players do not make good coaches. In this case, a master sushi chef did not make a good restaurant owner. Food quality is always #1. Get that right and remain consistent, and then you'll have repeat customers.
Akira was a test subject in a lab when he was a child you can the effects of that now.
Having skill at what u do doesnt mean u can manage the business.
Dawm.. was making the bucks as a Chef. Head got to big. Fused pizza which has to be cooked and sushi which can be eaten raw...
I think it was two cultures that fused at love tried to fuse in food
Akira is too weak to manage. He should just make the sushi himself
"Are you sure that Akira is real Japanesse, because judging from his behaviour he more act like some cheapskate Chinesse people instead of japanesse who pursuing perfection in everything they did !"....🤔🤨😒
All sushi in America is frozen at this price point
all sushi grade fish are flash frozen on the boat, even in japan. if you're gonna run your mouth don't run it about something you don't understand
@ lol
@@FirstDayson Yup it's also done to kill the bacteria
OMG... what a disaster..
Health department requires all salmon have to be frozen lol
I think the salmon needs to be frozen to a certain point to kill the parasites and bacteria, but it may have been that the salmon they used has been sitting in the freezer for a long time to the point it wasn’t fresh anymore
Cali ruins everything
That Akira is really downright Beta Male to a tee.
I wouldn't have taken the same BS as hr would with his wife.
Prime example of having a white american wife. 🎉
I think to make eateries more successful, they need a built in Market.. For example, tie it with something.. Look at Truck Stop, this guy put an great Indian Restaurant. People come to him for the gas to fill their car more because they like his food, n he has more business... Same with Supermarkets with Condos next to them.. People who live in a Condo complex will go to the supermarket built with it - like Wegmans.. I think that may be the future, tie your food options with a built in market that is a necessity.. Another example is you do gig delivery groceries, why not add in you own eatery online.. Instead of picking up orders from restaurants, why not market an eatery.. If you know what kind of groceries they buy, you have an idea of what kind of foods they may want.. So sometimes they may not have the time, so they can order a prepared food from the same app.. They do this a lot in grocery chains.. You see buffets, sandwiches, fried chicken n even sushi.. How much you think these groceries are taking away from the restaurants ? A LOT !!!
This is my THEORY of Food - Eatery Business.. You should tie Condos, with Supermarket and Eatery all together.. Look at Wegmen supermarket.. They have condos right next to the Supermarket.. I think they own the condos n rent it or sell each unit.. They also probably market Wegman to the Condos.. This way they have a built in Market. Their weakness is the Eatery.. They on-site eatery sucks, their pizza is too bready.. What Wegman needs is a better eatery inside their supermarket.. That's the TRIPLE endente - Residence, Groceries and Eatery in One Whole Unit..
A family that never prays together will never stay together.
Daughter should do JAV she is pretty.😅
I'll be first to test drive
@@Ontillits up to the highest bidder😂
You people are disgusting.
Eric didn’t kill himself from pjs steakhouse I trollled multiple kitchen nightmares videos throughout the years usually drunk haha. Let the pigeons fly! I can’t believe it’s in your video and that many ppl heard my rumor