{"id":2249,"date":"2022-11-17T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saitotamotsu.com\/en\/?page_id=2249"},"modified":"2025-04-04T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:46:32","slug":"interview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saitotamotsu.com\/en\/interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SaitoTamotsu<\/span>What is he like?\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How come you are so free?<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n\n\n\n

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This has been going on since elementary school, in the report card, it was written that \"he does not listen to others\" and \"he is restlessness.\"<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>

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With so much freedom, you must have had some failures?<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n\n\n\n

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I was quite strong, so I didn't have any setbacks, but I made a lot of mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest failure was that I failed by involving people and caused trouble.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>

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What kind of problem is that?<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n\n\n\n

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In 2008, I was introduced to a delicious soba restaurant in Nagano, He wanted to New Soba restaurant in Osaka.
so I gathered soba lovers and created a \"Soba fund\", created a new company, and opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For three days after opening, we scattered leaflets, so many customers came. I thought I was able to start off well by being open day and night, but on the fourth day, I handed out leaflets, and when I came back to the resutaurant, it was locked and Soba chef was gone. He didn't answer on the phone. When I ent inside, there was no safe or passbook. When I went to his apartment.
But, no bady<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the next day, his son sent me soba noodles by cool courier service, and I continued to operate, but the cost did not match and it was closed after 8 months. It was a fiasco, a huge deficit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the last minute, I had to return the propaty to restoration to original condition , but Soba company had no money, so I called 200 people. I asked if I could buy a restaurant without any works, and somehow I managed to get a chain of yakitori restaurants to buy it. So I managed to give back to everyone who bothered me.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>

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Are there any problems that are funny?<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n\n\n\n

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I chose a ramen shop for my first business. But Japan is not interesting, so I opened a street food shop in Zurich, Switzerland, which is the most expensive in Europe and the food is not delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But local Japan people keep coming back, but almost no Swiss people have come.
So I looked it up and found that Europeans don't like hot things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was keenly aware of the need for market research. So I decided that I would definitely focus on sushi next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That led to the subsequent Japanese restaurant \"SATSUKI\" in Chamonix.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>

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Did that restaurant \"SATSUKI\" do well?<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n\n\n\n

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It was too successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We asked various Big travel agencies such as JTB and Hankyu to incorporate it into their lunches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, I got too many reservations for lunch pachages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, an order from one restaurant came to lunch with 25 buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, our workers got angry for it. Also, inpossible to operat it.
But, I have to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I noticed that a nearby hotel only serves breakfast and dinner. Fainally we used big hotel's restaurant
We paid the usage fee, made the drink fee to hotel.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>

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