{"id":2833,"date":"2025-03-31T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/popular-japanese-restaurant-chain-to-shut-2000-branches-after-rat-found-in-soup\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:54:44","slug":"popular-japanese-restaurant-chain-to-shut-2000-branches-after-rat-found-in-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/popular-japanese-restaurant-chain-to-shut-2000-branches-after-rat-found-in-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Japanese restaurant chain to shut 2,000 branches after rat found in soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a miso soup and a bug in another meal, the company said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sukiya, famous for its beef bowls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sukiya.jp\/news\/2025\/03\/20250329.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">apologized in a statement<\/a>, saying it had a bug contamination at one of its Tokyo restaurants on Friday, two months after the rat incident at another branch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sukiya has decided to temporarily close all restaurants, with the exception of some stores in shopping centers, from March 31 to April 4 in order to take measures against pests and vermin,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Sukiya said measures had been taken to address cracks in the affected branch that could lead to contamination, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c74zll31pwxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-food company has about 1,970 stores across Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Nikkei business daily reported that its stores in shopping centers will also be closed as soon as arrangements are made with the facilities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Pedestrians walk past a branch of Japanese fast-food restaurant chain Sukiya, famous for its beef bowls, along a street in downtown Tokyo on March 30, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                RICHARD A. BROOKS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Food recalls are rare in Japan, a country with famously high sanitation standards, but food poisoning and recall incidents occasionally make headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 100,000 packets of sliced bread were recalled after <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rat-parts-in-bread-japan-pasco-shikishima-product-recall-in\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">parts of a rat were discovered<\/a><\/span> inside two bags.<\/p>\n<p>Sukiya is part of Zensho Holdings, which owns a number of restaurant chains in Japan, according to the BBC. Last Monday, following the disclosure about the rat, Zensho&#8217;s share price tumbled before recovering later in the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a miso soup and a bug in another meal, the company said Saturday. 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