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Popular Japanese catering chain to close 2000 branches after the rat found in the soup

The Japanese restaurant channel Sukiya will temporarily close almost all 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a Miso soup and an insect in another meal, the company announced on Saturday.

Sukiya, famous for her beef bowls, apologized in a statement saying insect contamination in one of his Tokyo restaurants on Friday, two months after the rat incident in another branch.

“Sukiya has decided to temporarily close all restaurants, with the exception of certain stores in shopping centers, from March 31 to April 4 in order to take measures against pests and vermin,” he said.

Sukiya said measures had been taken to tackle cracks in the affected branch that could cause contamination, BBC reported.

The fast food company has approximately 1,970 stores across Japan.

The Nikkei Business Daily said that its shops in shopping centers are also closed as soon as the arrangements are taken with the facilities.

Pedestrians pass in front of a branch of the Japanese Fast-Fast restaurant chain Sukiya, famous for its beef bowls, along a street in downtown Tokyo on March 30, 2025.

Richard A. Brooks / AFP via Getty Images


Food reminders are rare in Japan, a country with famous sanitation standards, but incidents of food and recall poisoning sometimes make the headlines.

Last year, more than 100,000 packets of bread in slices were recalled after Parties of a rat have been discovered Inside two bags.

Sukiya is part of Zensho Holdings, which has a number of restaurant channels in Japan, according to the BBC. Last Monday, following the disclosure on the rat, the course of Zensho’s action dropped before recovering later in the week.

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