On November 29, according to the video blogger @Inside Corrective Bureau, who recently visited Yoshinoya, Yoshinoya claimed to give customers the freshest and highest quality food, selling the “best beef rice”, but in reality, there are many problems.
For vegetables, the production date of cabbage and spinach was October 29, with a shelf life of four days, but they were already expired when the staff took them out for use on November 3.
In addition, some of the vegetables appeared dried out after frying because they were left in the preparation area for too long, but were still used instead of being replaced with fresh ones.
And the health and safety of meat is not optimistic.
In the video, the unannounced inspector found that the basa fish in Yoshinoya Sukiyaki was stinky, and after alerting the waiter, the waiter just took the stinky fish out of the pot, but did not replace the stinky vegetables, while not adding new basa fish or informing customers.
The meat froth used to make the mapo tofu was sour, the beef curry was bad, and the chicken was past its best tasting date, but the staff continued to serve it.
In terms of oil, the staff at this Yoshinoya store said that the oil is only changed once a week, and that the dregs are usually filtered out and the rest continues to be used. The inspector pointed out that the filtered oil was seriously blackened.
Finally, there is the worrying issue of hygiene.
The video shows that when the employee used the cup to pick up the broth oil, the bottom of the cup was directly against the garbage can, and then when the beef broth was retrieved, the cup was directly into the barrel.
In addition, employees also directly put food packed in plastic bags into the water for heating, make hot pot and other meals without gloves, but directly grab the ingredients with their hands, etc. The awareness of food hygiene and safety is very weak.
In response, Yoshinoya released a statement on its official Weibo account. The statement, signed by Hexing Restaurant Group, said that Yoshinoya is under different operating companies in the Chinese market, and that Yoshinoya in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China is operated by Hexing Restaurant Group. The Yoshinoya restaurant in this video is not within the company’s operations. The statement also said that the company has arranged for key leaders to lead a self-investigation task force to carry out self-investigation and self-correction work in Yoshinoya restaurants operated by the company with immediate effect.
According to publicly available information, the parent company of Hexing Catering Group is Hong Kong Hongshi Group. After the establishment of Hexing Catering Group, it has successively introduced excellent food and beverage brands such as Yoshinoya in Japan and DQ in the United States, as well as its own brands such as Crackling and Maioubang. In 1991, introduced by the group, the first Yoshinoya store in China opened in Beijing. Source