Sushi Chain Kura Sushi Cuts Prices While Rivals Raise Them
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Kura Sushi is a big sushi restaurant chain in Japan.
The company has made its cheapest plate of sushi cheaper.
The price went down from 115 yen to 110 yen.
This lower price is for food like negi-maguro, which is tuna with green onion.
Two other sushi chains, Sushiro and Hama-zushi, are doing something different.
They are making their food more expensive.
This is why people are asking a question about Kura Sushi.
Why is Kura Sushi going a different way from other sushi chains?
But Kura Sushi is not making all food cheaper.
The company is also making 33 other food items more expensive.
So some food is cheaper, and some food is more expensive.
Vocabulary9 words
- chain
- many shops or restaurants with the same name
- lower
- to make something smaller, like a price
- cheapest
- costing the least money
- plate
- a flat dish for food
- yen
- the money used in Japan
- tuna
- a big sea fish people eat
- expensive
- costing a lot of money
- different
- not the same
- items
- things, like foods on a menu
Quiz
Answer key
1. Made it cheaper 2. Making them more expensive 3. False
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
Kura Sushi is a big sushi _____ chain in Japan.
The company has made its _____ plate of sushi cheaper.
The price went down from 115 yen to _____ yen.
This lower price is for food like negi-maguro, which is _____ with green onion.
Two other sushi chains, Sushiro and Hama-zushi, are doing something _____.
They are making their food more _____.
Why is Kura Sushi going a different way from other sushi _____?
But Kura Sushi is not making all food _____.
The company is also making 33 other food _____ more expensive.