Crisp Salad Works Azabujuban — Restaurant in Tokyo

I totally support the cashless approach so I will be recommending it to all my friends :) In Japan there are other ways to pay not being a credit card such as electronic money, for example the suica. Suica can be bought with cash and loaded with cash and I think I don't know any japanese person living in the city who does not have one. A homeless person? well maybe, but honestly I don't thing what is stopping eating here to a homeless person is not having a suica but probably spending 1500 yen for a salad. I am 100% in favor of cashless life, so my total support for this business!

Oh also the...

Wow. An amazing triumph of style over substance. Ridiculously expensive, especially if you add toppings. Feta - one measly teaspoon. Parmesan - two lame shavings. Extra cost - over 300 yen.

Not that it matters though, as somehow they turn a salad into anything but 'crisp'. You get one homogeneous slimy, green-gray mass. You cannot taste the toppings, and it is so sloppy, they give you a spoon to eat it.

A SPOON to eat salad.

But, the place has cattle-style seating, flannel, tattoos, bushman beards, and a very un-ironic salad called the 'Hipster', so it will likely be popular until...

Decent salads and friendly staff, but 2 big drawbacks.

1. Chicken they use for some salads is probably 30% skin and fat. I hate biting into that texture. Definitely not the standard shredded chicken you expect when ordering a typical chicken-based salad.
2. Weird ordering system means even if you order a set menu item, you still have to mill about in line behind everyone else ordering item by item. A real hassle when the line is long and you just want to sit down and wait...