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The story
“Kappo Komeo,” a restaurant in Azabu-Juban, Tokyo, has announced its closure. The restaurant previously caused a food poisoning outbreak, and Komeo is reportedly involved in running it. On 5ch’s Entertainment/Sports News+ thread, commenters speculated the closure might really be a rebrand aimed at a “comeback,” pointing out that the crab ramen shop “Kani wo,” also said to be linked to the same operator, is still open as usual. Others focused on hygiene management, suggesting HACCP (hygiene control plan) records may not have been properly kept, leaving opinion split on what’s really behind the closure.
What people said
Mizoguchi's into that kind of thing too.
Candidates for what replaces it:
Komeo Chinese Diner, Bistro Komeo, Ristorante Komeo
A comeback in Azabu-Juban seems unlikely anyway
Sounds like the shopping district folks were furious
Is this really worth this much of an uproar?
A bunch of grown adults all piling on
Management was a little lax, sure
Just tighten it up, that's all
Food poisoning is no joke — some cases are mild, but others can be fatal.
Don't talk nonsense
We're the ones
who went through hell over this
it was seriously brutal
this sucks
Komeo's the one doing the bullying here — poisoning people is some next-level bullying.
More like a terrorist spreading poison.
It's just haters mad he's making money, blowing this food poisoning thing up.
Eating food made by an ex-con makes you an anti by definition anyway.
Uh… I honestly can't tell what you're trying to say.
Nah, it'd have to be a crab match…
Honestly, I could see that happening.
It's not even that they were slacking off — this guy probably thought 'wait, you're actually supposed to do that?'
Huh? Isn't cooking just about whether it tastes good?
HACCP compliance is mandatory now.
You have to log things like daily fridge temperature checks.
And when cooking in bulk, you're required to keep food samples on hand too.
has kept running without a single day off even after the food poisoning case,
so Komeo's probably closing simply because customers stopped showing up.
Wait, what?
They actually reopened at some point?
That ramen was served under the Kappo Komeo name,
so the crab ramen shop itself has been running as usual the whole time.
The story is the chilled crab ramen was cooked and served out of the Kappo Komeo kitchen,
which is why Kappo Komeo got shut down.
People online are saying they probably used ingredients from Kani wo, the crab ramen specialty shop,
but Kani wo itself has kept operating normally without any closure, even now.
Prison hygiene management is actually way stricter than at a regular restaurant.
Even so, food poisoning still happens there occasionally.
It's not like the inmates are the ones handling hygiene management though.
Did this guy even actually do the cooking in prison to begin with?
If he did, it'd definitely cause reputational damage to other businesses by association.
Even just having Komeo as an investor would be nothing but a debuff at this point.
Sounds like Kani wo is still open though.
If people want to go, let them go, I guess?
Mind your own business — whatever else he's running elsewhere is Komeo's call, not yours.
went into hiding for a while
but he's still running restaurants today.
Well, that one was just skimpy/underfilled — they never actually caused food poisoning…
Yeah, that one had a similar vibe — people were saying 'don't half-ass your osechi, make it yourself,' kind of a 'serves them right for the skimpy osechi' pile-on.
Background and Key Points of This Story
“Kappo Komeo” previously caused a food poisoning incident, and this closure announcement appears to follow administrative measures such as a business suspension. Hygiene management plan (HACCP) record-keeping has been mandatory for all food businesses since June 2021, so if the claims raised in the thread — that temperature logs and stool-test records weren’t being kept — are accurate, this wasn’t just bad luck but a real failure of the management system itself. Opinions were split on whether the closure reflects a withdrawal due to poor business or an attempt to relaunch under a different name, with speculation spreading on both sides without confirmed evidence. Some also questioned why the crab ramen shop “Kani wo,” said to be run by the same operator, has kept operating normally, but the thread never established exactly how much equipment or ingredients the two shops actually shared, so no firm conclusion can be drawn.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Komeo Announces Closure of “Kappo Komeo”.”
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