RFID Sushi

Two of my favorite things, technology and raw fish! I never really thought these two things would go together so well. At Pintokona a Kaiten Sushi (conveyer belt sushi) restaurant in Roppongi all the plates are fitted with RFID chips. These chips serve two purposes. First, the chips are used to track how long the fish has remained on the conveyer belt. After 30 minutes the chefs are alerted and the fish is removed ensuring only fresh sushi as the plates pass by. The second function makes adding up the cost a simple wave of a magic wand. Normally at Kaiten sushi they count up the plates based on color and tally the total, but here all they have to do is pass a scanner over the plates and the RFID does all the adding for them. For those of you who know me well you know that the super geek in me enjoyed eating my sushi in technological style. And if the technology wasn’t enough to make me happy the sushi was some of the better I have had here in Tokyo so far.