text: I am sad to report I am dropping stars off of this restaurants review I wanted to only drop off but my wife insisted I drop And here is whynnThis place has always had decent sushi Like many places it can be hit or miss and here they are mostly hits so I am not writing to complain about that The quality of sushi is about the same as it is always been and that is to say hard to beat for the happy hour price and prepared consistently Except for one thing the portions seem to have shrunk as of about month ago It used to be that you could not fit a single slice of an arizona roll in your mouth in one bite but now they seem to be making the base slice as large as a typical crunch roll and subsequently there is less topping as well It tastes the same but it is not the same valueslice seeing as how the price is the same nnThe size of sushi changing does not bother me that much to be honest I get it it is a business and cutting down on costs is important whatever that is fine Our real problem has become the service On our latest trip there we took two friends with us We showed up at and ordered our food It took a while to arrive but not unreasonably long considering the amount of food we ordered and drink service was decent for about the first minutes After we were done eating however we did not see a waiter for probably minutes at all At this point all of the plates were clean and we were wanting our check so we could book it home There was a problem though there literally was not a single employee out on the floor we could not have waved one down if we wanted to Once they finally made their appearance we managed to wave them down and get our check Here is the part that annoyed us the most We were gladly given the check and we immediately put our credit cards in the checks and put the checks at the end of the table From that point it was easily another minutes before they actually ran the tickets and brought back the receipts During this time not a single dish was cleared from our table it was a mess All in all by the time we got out of there it had been and hour and a half And the restaurant was not even busy Maybe people total nnIve been eating here probably once every week or two for the last years and the service has never really been stellar Sometimes the service was quick and the waitresses were attentive however more often than not that is not the case It is very inconsistentnnLike another reviewer said they keep changing staff and after a brief discussion with one of the waitresses my wife and I learned why During one of our visits my wife sat down and mentioned to the waitress I am glad you are here because that other gave us slow service last time and we did not tip her well The waitress replied with Oh well she gave you slow service because we do not get to keep tips so she probably just does not care We asked her who gets to keep the tips and she said the lady in the yellow shirt who I can only guess is the owners wife Yeah you heard that right they pay their wait staff around minimum wage and all the tips go to you guessed it the pockets of the owners Normally I would not have a problem with this if you are paying your wait staff a decent enough wage to give a crap about their job but apparently that is not the case here It is clear to me now that the reason the wait staff do not care about the service is because they have no incentive too nnIm assuming this is what is going through the mind of the wait staff You need a refill and it is been ten minutes since you went dry Your plates are piling up and starting to glaze over after you have been done eating for half an hour and we have not cleared them yet You ask for your check and I do not pick it up for another minutes to ring it through I do not care I do not get tips anyway so do not leave onennIts my understanding that in the japenese culture wait staff are not tipped and are not expected to be tipped Which is fine when you are in japan But the culture here is such that if the wait staff are not getting their tips it will show in the service they provide and it is my humble suggestion that this restaraunt figures out a way to make it worth your wait staffs while to actually try harder If the wait staff are incentivized properly and actually have a stake in customers returning to eat there again the business will profit from it If the wait staff stays like they currently are customers will continue to be driven away and business will be lost I hate saying it but my two friends that I came with said Kyle I do not know why you took us here but we are not coming here again which makes me very sad I live close so I will still return but two potential customers were last that night just think about how many more you will keep losing if things do not change