Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a miso soup and a bug in another meal, the company said Saturday.

Sukiya, Japan's leading Gyudon restaurant, announced on March 29 that it was temporarily closing nearly all its stores Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...

Sukiya, the country’s biggest beef bowl chain, said it would cease operations Monday at roughly 2,000 locations nationwide for four days starting in a statement posted on their website Saturday.

Sukiya, the country’s largest chain serving gyudon, or beef bowls, announced the temporary closures following an insect contamination incident at one of its suburban Tokyo locations on Friday.

TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Japan's fast-food chain Sukiya will shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 stores nationwide for four days from Monday following recent incidents of customers finding a ...