I'm writing this to inform people of my experience at Akai hana Sushi And Grill. On Thursday August 1st my grandmother, aunt, and myself witnessed the manager/chef spit into our salmon skin salads. He prepped the salads at the bar and walked off to a corner at the end of the bar with one of the salads and spat into it and handed it to my aunt. At that time my grandmother had witnessed him do that and warned my aunt not to eat it because she thinks she seen him spit into it but wasn't sure. My aunt then asked for a to go box from the waitress and put it in the to go box. So at that point we became alert and began to watch his actions. He they proceeded to take the second salad off to the same corner and began to spit in the salad again. At that point we stood up and hollered across the bar, ""Hey Steve why did you just spit in the salads? We just seen you! What did we do to you for you to do that?"" He got so nervous and began to studder and not know what to say. So immediately we called the police and waited for them to arrive. Steve came towards us apologizing saying that he only tasted the salads and not spit into them and that there was no need to call the police. We told Steve to stay away from us so he went back inside. When the police arrived we explained the incident that occurred and they asked for the proof. Out of the heat of the moment we had left the to go box with the first salad in it on the sushi bar. So i went in to retrieve it and to my surprise it was gone and our seats had been cleaned off. I asked for the to go box and Steve pulled it out from under the counter and when I opened it it had been diluted with water and ice. I showed it the police and they said the evidence had been tampered with and therefore was useless. I walked back inside to throw it away and Steve said, ""no keep it so you can test for my DNA."" I told him that was not an options because they had tampered with it. I then proceeded to ask for the second salad and he said it had been tossed. So we left dismayed.
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