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Absolute majority of """""(((Japanese)))""""" franchises in US are either subpar at best, or straight up just dogshit. Chinese brands and franchises are genuinely unironically superior, because nips entered the US market relatively not so very long ago, while chinks been around for almost a century by now, due to chynatown shit and etc., so they've accumulated a fuckton of experience in dealing with/serving to mutt market.
Yoshinoya and Gyu Kaku are, pretty much, the only two actual genuine full-Japanese franchises that are present in US, without massive bastardization or niggerification of everything (again - we don't talk about Commiefornia or other retarded shitholes). Sarku, for example, is NOT trash, it's NOT bad, but for me personally it wasn't anything special, it's just an average run-of-the-mill "yakitoria" akin to those that can be found in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Vladivostok, or Khabarovsk (usually the closer to Japan itself, so further to the east of the country, the better). Hence why Sarku is "nothing special" and a "mediocrity".