Choices of free sushi rolls are: Cooked Tuna, Vegetarian or Teriyaki Chicken (1 only).
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Great deal but their Sushi is terrible. One of the reasons being is that they make it in the morning and its sits there all day.
Down vote for speaking the truth, you must not have had good sushi before.
I've restored jzx100's comment back to neutral. Its true, Sushi Sushi food is for people who don't know what real sushi is like Minamishima. They've also had numerous reported food hygiene infrigements, its amazing how many people still eats it just because its cheap.
Well this is OzBargain after all. Minamishima is $150 a head.
Boss, where do I find good sushi?
I note that you are in Victoria. I can only advise you about sashimi, because I don't like rice. That said, the places near me that do very nice and reasonably priced sashimi include:
"Momoco Sushi" at Northland (Preston)
"Matsuya" (Fairfield)
"Kanda" (Ivanho)
"Toyama" (Ivanho)
"Popula" (Ivanho)
If you're in the South-Western CBD:
~Bento prices
AKACHOCHIN $20
Crown (Multiple) $50+
Hanabishi ~$21
Kobe jones $22.50
Mr Fusion
Ootoro ~$16
Note: I've only tried a couple of these, was just doing research because Ootoro's price keeps snaking up.
Anything around the $15 mark or under is ideal. Suggestions welcome!
If you're in the eastern CBD, there are a ton of highly rated Japanese places.
"Crown (Multiple) $50+"
A place at Crown (Melbourne) called 'Koko' does awesome sashimi, and it's a very nice atmosphere in there due to the water-garden that occupies about half of the floor-space (sort of). Bizarre but true. Not so cheap, but you can slip in for 45 minutes with a friend and share a couple of entrees for well under $50, so if you're feeling extravagant…
Go to Sushiten in Port Phillip Arcade before they move to make way for Melbourne Metro. They have a Mix Don (Tuna and Salmon) for $15 and the quality is fantastic.
"… and its sits there all day."
What worries me more than that, is that I notice that even an hour (or less) before closing time, the 'window' is often still just about fully stocked with their products. I doubt very much that they throw all this (relatively 'high-cost') food out at the 'close of business' at the end of every day. If they routinely gave all of this food away to any of the various charities that accept such donations that would be very admirable, but I also strongly doubt that this is the case (I would be very happy to be corrected on this, but surely if it was the case there would be some mention of that somewhere online?).
Therefore, I strongly suspect that anything not sold the previous day is simply put out for sale again the next morning. The 'hip-pocket-hit' that they would take by binning it all would be just too great otherwise, I think.
I have no evidence whatsoever for this suspicion (it's entirely speculative), other than the fact that ALL of the "Sushi Sushi"s I have observed seem to remain almost 'fully stocked' close to closing time. Perhaps this would not be a problem with some types of food, but given that they specialise in stuff like tataki (raw beef), sashimi (raw fish), and prawns, it is a definite concern.
I would really love it if someone from Sushi Sushi (i.e. a 'rep') chimed in here, and explained what actually happens to all of that stock that is clearly there in the window, when the shopping-centre closes for the night.
Well pretty much everything gets thrown out at the end of the day, since they want to maintain their policy of freshness to the customer.
Not sure why the store where you went to had stacks of sushi near closing time. Not monitoring the amount of sushi being made, management issue perhaps?
It's not just the one store, and it was not a one-off event. I've noticed the exact same thing numerous times, in various Sushi Sushi places. Thus I have concluded that at the end of the day "pretty much everything" (?) gets put into a fridge, and comes back out for sale again the next morning.
The only thing that does not get thrown out are the salad packs. That is the only thing that is put in the fridge. If that does not sell after two days, we throw it out. Sushi packs and the sushi handrolls must be thrown out at the end of the day, if I need to be specific enough.
I worked at multiple sushi sushi stores and the same policy applies. It is the company's loss anyway if they need to bin excess sushi.
@Derekhuang24:
Thanks for engaging D-huang, I genuinely appreciate it because I've been curious about this for ages. As a bit of an 'exploratory exercise' I visited two SS joints late this afternoon/well-after 4PM (at about 4:30, with the code word in hand of course, LOL), and there was a great deal of food still on display at both of them. More than 30 hand rolls, and more than 20 pre-prepared boxes of sashimi, tataki, sushi, etc.
That is a hell of a lot of 'high quality' (and high $$$) food going to waste, if as you say it is all 'thrown away' at the end of the day. I apologise for my cynicism, but this leads me to doubt that what you say is actually true. It may be 'SS policy', but I'm betting it is not what is actually happening. Because frankly, that would make no economic sense.
Maybe the 'excess' at the end of each day is not sold the next morning, but I strongly doubt that it is simply 'binned'. Also, I would actually hope that it is not binned, because that would be a shameful waste of food/animal life/etc.
As I mentioned previously, if SS is affiliated with any of the groups that distribute unsold food to the needy ('Reclaim' etc.), then that might explain the situation… but there is no evidence that this is the case.
Another option to avoid extreme amounts of waste would be to do what MANY take-away outlets selling pre-prepared stuff do, and heavily discount whatever is left, when there's only about 30 minutes left in the 'trading day'.
Sorry to labour a point, but what I see every time I wander passed a SS outlet about 10 or 20 minutes before the joint is due to close is at LEAST 20 items still in the window for sale, and NOTHING EVER offered at a reduced price in an effort to stop it going to waste. Of course if it ends up going to some group like 'Reclaim', this does not apply/there is no need to consider this policy.
So… Does your excess food at the end of each day get:
'Recycled' (put out for sale again the next morning)
Completely wasted (binned)
Donated (to a charity like 'Reclaim' or the like)
OR:
4: Do you not actually know what happens to it?
Seriously D-Huang, wander passed YOUR local SS (or maybe a few of them), half an hour or less before closing time and check out what remains in the window/on offer… do the maths on it. It doesn't add up.
@GnarlyKnuckles: 30 handrolls is like normal, the sushi sushi company lose like what? $70-$80 in hand rolls and maybe about $70 in packs. Does not really matter that much to them since they are a franchise and they earn heaps. I worked at multiple Sushi Sushi stores, and yes sadly they BIN the handrolls and the sushi packs. Yes it sucks as it is a waste of food, animal life like you said, but their main goal is to deliver freshness to the customer everyday. That is the sacrifice that the company needs to make in order to meet their policy and goals.
Well if the store is not busy, they will make less handrolls and packs and vice versa. Hope that clears it up :)
@Derekhuang24:
Yo D-hung, while I doubt that a lot of what you say actually holds true for many SS outlets, and I dispute the maths, I must say that I am very impressed with your ready willingness to respond to my questions. Most 'reps/associates' would have simply steered well-clear of such questions, so the fact that you have had 'the balls' to respond to them (soz if you're female, or take offense at that expression for whatever reason; it's only intended as a figure of speech), and have done so so eloquently, is to your great credit. Thanks.
"relatively high cost"?? Rice = <$1/kg. Chicken <$6/kg.
It's the foods I mentioned in my post that I'm talking about; raw beef, raw fish, and prawns. You need to buy high quality (i.e. expensive) fish and beef if it is to be eaten raw, and prawns aren't cheap either.
There's three Sushi Sushis in Highpoint Shopping Centre alone, so you could just visit each one and that's lunch sorted.
Unless you have lunch at 3-5pm
Maybe dinner?
=O
GF got food poisoning from here too.
Maggot Maggot (TM) is a great place to eat. I don't know why people would bring their home-grown lunches.
Suburb?