Andrea, Jess, Hunter and I went out for sushi at the local sushi train today. Basically, a conveyor belt goes past your table, and you help yourself to plates of whatever takes your fancy, and at the end of the meal, they count up your plates, and charge you accordingly.
We noticed that some plates sat on raised plastic saucers, but didn't pay much attention to it. A little later, we figured out that the touchscreen computer at our table allowed us to place special orders. We placed our order, and then started trying to figure out how our order was going to get to us. Suddenly, Jess took a closer look at one of the two plastic saucers on our table. In amongst the incomprehensible kanji was a bit of katakana that both she and I could read. It spelt out oruda - order. A little more thinking, and we worked out that each of the tables was colour coded, so that when a special order came around on the train, it would be easy to tell the table to which the order belonged. A little more thinking, and we worked out that both the special orders we'd helped ourselves to belonged to the table two tables past us. Ooops!
We spent the rest of the meal not looking in the direction of that table... At least next time we'll have an understanding of the basic rules.
That is very funny. Did you manage to hide the colour when you went to pay? lol :-D
ReplyDeleteWe disposed of the evidence by sticking the saucers back on the train... we think the saucers were supposed to be left on the train anyway, other people's were. We kept the plate for payment calculation though.
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