Steve Aoki
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And the idea to like cook in front of people.
That's actually, interestingly enough, that's not a Japanese concept.
So that's very much an American-born concept.
I don't know where he got the idea.
I was just about to say that.
Because no one really did that.
It's not like he invented it.
But like definitely founded this idea of entertainment.
Japanese food in the 60s, they only served Japanese people.
Yeah, like the little like immigrant cultures, right?
So if you want to eat Chinese food, you have to go to Chinatown.
And you're going to be eating with Chinese people.
It's not made for Westerners.
So when they opened Benihana's, they opened in like a Western white New York.