That’s all well and good for a typical thermal printer at a cash, but we’re talking about automated kiosks whose printout is required to pick up your order, and it would be very easy for them to know when they need their roll changed, either by tracking how much paper they’ve printed out, or by using a simple optical…

paper receipts are required in restaurants by law here, and they must be in a standardized format (all restaurants have identical receipts with a standardized 2D barcode). I can’t speak to other jurisdictions, but I would imagine that most places legally require at least some receipt.

Women make up 9% of Japan’s Parliament - honestly, I think you’re greatly misunderstanding and underestimating the levels of ingrained, socially acceptable sexism in Japan. It’s very, very different from the West, and in many places obedience and a quiet demeanor is still expected of Japanese women.

You sit on your hands while every other sushi emporium in Japan hires only men, but a single restaurant that hires only women drives you take to your keyboard at the injustice to the male sushi chefs who failed to get a job at any of the others? Really?

But the male sushi chef’s logic isn’t that women shouldn’t be making sushi around men but that they shouldn’t be doing it at all. Did you read the part where men come into this restaurant just to berate women. If they didn’t create a space for themselves there wouldn’t be one at all.

This restaurant is going to create segregated work places while also not offsetting the myriad restaurants that won’t hire women anyway.

It’s also about the women being able to go ‘Hey look, we’re just as good!), and having a safe space to prove it without others pointing to the dudes on staff and saying that greatness comes from them. It’s about giving them a space where they can prove themselves and finally work without the dumb pressures of it being…

So.....either it matters too much or....not at all? That’s your argument?

I don’t think anyone expects this one restaurant to “cause parity”. If all it achieves is letting some women do sushi, isn’t that worthwhile? It would be great if they could manage that without using positive discrimination, but it seems they can’t. They are being faced with a hard problem in an imperfect world. I…

“Also, why is there a BLACK Entertainment Television, but not a WHITE Entertainment television? And why do we have GAY Pride Week, but not STRAIGHT Pride Week?”

Nobody has ever been able to figure out what gets men interested to lose their privilege in society, if anything. All human rights have been taken most of the time by force, political and social pressure and war, rarely just given. Therefore I’m not sure if there is any value in trying to get man to care about…

Because banning men from working in your restaurant is going to encourage men to care about equality?

It’s not a “long run” solution. Positive discrimination is a short-term hack to partially redress the balance. It will/should be dropped when women have parity.

Because banning men from working in your restaurant is going to encourage men to care about equality?

There are sushi places owned by men with 100% male staff at every street corner in Japan. How many of those have you objected to because they don’t promote equality? But if there is ONE restaurant with all female staff, you get all huffy? At this ONE restaurant the staff is all female to prove that women can make…

It’s about having a safe space for women to show their craft. Like a gallery, showcasing women artists but in this case food artists.

men, the white people of gender.

Only hiring women is a great way of making sure women sushi chefs can ply their trade, working in a work environment where they aren’t mercilessly harassed or frozen out by male traditionalists for “invading” a male-dominated trade, or just plain sexually harassed in what is something of a misogynistic society…

apparently reading comprehension hurts your brain, too.