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Uploaded: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:52 AM
Kaygetsu owner now cooks for Apple
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by Sandy Brundage
Almanac Staff
When Menlo Park's Kaygetsu restaurant closed in September, owners Keiko and Toshi Sakuma weren't quite sure what would come next for them.
But according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Steve Jobs didn't let them wonder for long. Before his death, the entrepreneur convinced Mr. Sakuma to take a job in Cupertino as a sushi chef at Apple headquarters.
Ms. Sakuma said in an online forum post that Mr. Jobs made the offer while eating lunch at Kaygetsu, after somehow finding out that the restaurant was for sale. "Steve has been very good to us, being one of our regular customers for many years. We didn't treat him any different from other customers; and I regret that I had to turn him away many times when we didn't have seats for him and his guests. But, I think he liked the fact that he wasn't getting any special treatment," she wrote.Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Bob, a resident of the Woodside: Woodside Heights neighborhood, on Mar 29, 2012 at 10:04 am I'll miss Toshi's sushi at Kaygetsu, but I'm glad he and Keiko found a next step they are happy with. My wife and I saw Steve at Kaygetsu occasionally, both with his family and work colleagues, and always found it refreshing that he was treated just like any other regular customer. At least the times we saw him, no one bothered him, and I'm sure he appreciated the chance for a great meal in normal circumstances.
Bob
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Posted by R.Gordon, a resident of another community, on Mar 29, 2012 at 10:53 am I wish he had been treated with the same respect while trying to build the home in Woodside to live and die.
People were downright nasty.
Bob, at least, appears to be civilized as Jobs was.
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Posted by Hmmm, a resident of another community, on Mar 29, 2012 at 4:36 pm Jobs wasn't particularly civilized - so pretending he was is plain weird.
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Posted by Sam, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood, on Mar 30, 2012 at 9:10 am I read this story in SFGate earlier, and their version made it seem as if Steve Jobs lured the owners away, leading to the restaurant's closing and sale. This version in the Almanac paints Steve in a different, more favorable, light.
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