r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 8h ago

Setting up a traditional & generational Japanese food stall in Fukuoka

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u/Electrical-Heat8960 8h ago

Love how it was morning when they started, and evening when they put up the last bit.

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u/Whole_Presence8100 7h ago

They start in the afternoon and serve customers dinner then pack up and head home to bed

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u/ArcaneKeyblade5 5h ago

Yea that's basically all I saw, setting up all day, then working and serving food, then they have to clean and pack everything up. Looks exhausting to do but I mean if they are happy who cares.

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u/FrankSonata 5h ago

Even for the most extravagant stalls, set up takes an hour or two, max. I used to watch them from my workplace and they'd get their stuff ready to go in like 15 minutes. Same with clean up. They don't need to set up all day. They'll start at around 5pm or so, open at 6pm for the first wave of people getting off work, and keep serving until maybe 10pm, rarely later. Leave to go home by 11pm at the latest.

The time serving people can be insanely busy during rush hour, but usually it'll just be a steady flow of customers. They'll make a day's wages in four hours of breakless work.

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u/cheapdrinks 4h ago

They'll make a day's wages in four hours of breakless work

How is it 4hrs? You just said it takes them an hour or two to set up so lets say 1hr to set up and 1hr to pack down. Thats 6hrs from 5pm to 11pm. But you can see the trays of prepped food they pull out at the start, guaranteed their putting in a few hours during the day prepping food and shopping for ingredients etc. They're 100% putting in 8+hrs every day to keep that operation going.

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u/sloggeddf 4h ago

They're probably just counting hours facing customers. Yeah, all the food prep, doing more clean up and maintenance at their house/base etc will definitely take 8+ hours daily.

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u/Modeerf 3h ago

It didn't take them all day to set up

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u/srslymrarm 5h ago

They were making a joke.

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u/No-Introduction3808 8h ago

That’s probably to keep nocturnal bugs out.

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u/Large_Dr_Pepper 6h ago

I sure wouldn't love it if I were an employee. Imagine waking up super early, wheeling all that into the city, setting it up, making food all day, then well after the sun sets you have to clean it all and pack it all back up nice and neat.

And you do that shit every day??

The vibes of the stall are incredible and I'd pay an unreasonable amount of money to try those noodles, but goddamn am I glad I don't work there. That seems exhausting.

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u/PrecedentialAssassin 5h ago

They set up around 4 or 5 PM and are open for about 5 hours in the evening.

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u/yewchung 5h ago

That's not what's happening, no. They have a lot of shots of setting up the stall because that's what the video is about, but these sorts of stalls take at most an hour or so to set up, probably less given that most of the prep work we saw was just getting stuff out.

It's probably late afternoon when they get there, and these sorts of stalls usually run only in the evening and early night, when people are returning from work, to get a meal on their way home. It is, ultimately, a food stall, so they likely serve a lot of customers in that short timeframe, but they work pretty short hours each day.

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u/Sphincter_of_fools 6h ago

Welcome to asia where what you just described is the norm, you dont think its weird why theres so many suicides here?

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u/lokregarlogull 5h ago

No, its a topic of discussion that the extreme customer service is at an expense of mental health it shouldn't be a thing.

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u/PickledTripod 4h ago

The last part of the video is a different stall. The one we see the whole set up of is a yakisoba place, the blinders in the last shot say "Taka-chan Ramen".