A Japanese Restaurant In Florida Is Closing After Meth Was Found In The Soy Sauce

SOURCE: PACE, Fla. (WKRG) — A Japanese steak house in Pace has announced they are closing just weeks after an investigation by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office found that some of the soy sauce was contaminated with methamphetamine.

An investigation into Nikko Japanese Steak House began when seven people were hospitalized after eating at the restaurant.

Detectives did test two soy sauce bottles and unopened to-go packets of soy sauce which came back as positive for meth. On July 7, the owners of the restaurant made a Facebook post that said they would be closing because they were “unable to sustain the cost to stay open.”

The investigation was closed and no charges were filed because deputies were “unable to determine who contaminated the food due to a lack of witness observations and surveillance footage.”

According to the investigative report, multiple employees told deputies a co-worker was acting erratically on June 9, the day the seven customers got sick. The co-workers believed the suspicious co-worker unknowingly contaminated the food; however, the report concluded that there was no evidence to back that up.

I for one was shocked that this was in the great tax haven of Florida. Just a whole different planet they're living in over there. I know families were ADDICTED to this place man. Dad threw a tantrum every time the wife wanted to go to the spot that was closer. "But that spot in Pace hits different!" Talk about brand loyalty.

You ever had some sushi that hit so good and you wondered why it was better at this place than your other regular run-of-the-mill sushi spot? Now you have your answer and boy was it not what we expected. I do need to know though how the unopened soy sauce packets also came back as positive for meth. Who was cooking there? Who owned this spot? Was it this guy?

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So many answers we'll probably never get. And on that note, there's a few Benihana locations I need them to test as well.

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Jesse we need to make California rolls!