Koji Watanabe, The Pop-Up Sushi Man About Town - Deadline Detroit
Koji Watanabe is truly the pop-up Sushi Man. Throughout the week, Monday through Friday, from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. , the man of good humor, pops up in different cafeterias around Metro Detroit, bringing with him a couple sushi chefs. Tuesdays, he sells his sushi out of a cafeteria in downtown in the One Detroit Center office building at 500 Woodward Avenue. On Wednesdays, he sends a crew to the Chrysler IT building in Auburn Hills and works out of the Watson Office Building on Northwestern Highway in Southfield. On Thursdays, his company is at the American Center in Southfield and the DTE building in downtown Detroit. On Fridays, he's at Toyota's tech center in Ann Arbor. In all, he says he has about eight employees, some full time, some part time. They also help with catering that has included such venues as the Franklin Hills Country Club, the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham and the Westin Book Cadillac in downtown Detroit. In 1985, he opened his own Sushi/Japanese restaurant in the Southfield 2000 Town Center called Musashi. On Tuesday, at the One Detroit Center building on Woodward, one of the regulars included Dynia Abraham, who works in the nearby Coleman A. Young Municipal Building. Source: www.deadlinedetroit.com
