{"id":689597,"date":"2025-08-03T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/tour\/689597\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:50:00","slug":"gyaru-boss-risks-%c2%a515m-life-savings-on-wagyu-hamburg-steak-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/tour\/689597\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyaru Boss Risks \u00a515M LIFE SAVINGS on Wagyu Hamburg Steak Shop!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Gyaru Boss Risks \u00a515M LIFE SAVINGS on Wagyu Hamburg Steak Shop!?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3c2qEQWeMHI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGyaru Boss Risks \u00a515M LIFE SAVINGS on Wagyu Hamburg Steak Shop!?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been a gyaru for 17 years. Current weight&#8230; 103 kilos! (Gyaru: a Japanese style known for bold makeup and flashy fashion.) Good morning! I&#8217;m the manager here. I like to go by Manager Gyaru. It&#8217;s just four of us running the place. My husband, my brother&#8230; And one part-timer. They&#8217;re not here yet. &#8216;Cause they overslept. It\u2019s just been the four of us since day one, so a little over a year now. My wife here was the most excited about opening the place. I told my husband I wanted to open a restaurant&#8230; And he tagged along for the ride. He was a regular old salaryman for 8 years. I said I wanted to save up to open my own restaurant And I was like &#8220;quit your job and help me!&#8221; And he did! My sister said she wanted to start a restaurant So I was like \u201cAlright, let\u2019s go for it!\u201d I duck out of the shop here and there. So she&#8217;s really the one in charge. I was the one who wanted to do this the most And these guys just kinda decided to join me. So that&#8217;s why I ended up being the manager. There he is! I thought you&#8217;d never show up! Morning! Morning! Just crawled out of bed. You totally overslept! Look at that puffy face! Look! Having a bad skin day. Should\u2019ve done a face mask or something. No time for that. Good morning. Woke up at 11. (His shift starts at 11&#8230;) So you just strolled in with that puffy face. I was too nervous to sleep. Right after we first opened, he got our logo tattooed on his arm. Yup. I got an Amacro logo tat. I&#8217;m in this for life. That&#8217;s why I got the tat. The cut I prepped just now Is a cut called ichibo (rump cap). It&#8217;s part of the cow&#8217;s bum So you&#8217;ve got the rump&#8230;and further back is the ichibo, near the tail end. You only get about 2 kilos from a whole cow. So it&#8217;s super rare. Even though it\u2019s a lean cut, it\u2019s beautifully marbled. And super tender. The fat\u2019s really sweet too. Right now, we serve sirloin, rump, and ichibo. But my number one pick is definitely ichibo. Ichibo all the way! Even older people find it easy to chew. It\u2019s super popular. You seriously gotta try it. I&#8217;m heading out to buy some things. The veggie shop\u2019s right there. Good morning! Whoa, look at that line. Is it always this packed? Oh, this is nothing. The line can go all the way past that street. The prices are insane, right? Super cheap. Even when cabbage was like 500 yen ($3.25) a head This place wasn&#8217;t that bad at all. It honestly saved us. Seriously, such a lifesaver. Good morning! I can pay later? Shimeji mushrooms And daikon radish No shiso leaves, huh? Nope, too expensive. Thank you! Let&#8217;s go! If I get stuck in that line I won\u2019t have time to prep the food. So the shop owner here always says \u201cJust pay later, it\u2019s fine.\u201d Pocari Sweat Thanks! We use only Amakusa Black Beef in our hamburg steak. When we first decided to open a restaurant I\u2019ve always loved meat, by the way So when I was trying to decide which meat to use I got a chance to visit a farm that raises Amakusa Black Beef. The farm actually runs a restaurant, too. Like yakiniku (Japanese BBQ) and stuff. And when I tried their meat, it was insane. It was sweet, flavorful, and the fat wasn\u2019t heavy. That\u2019s when I knew I wanted to use their beef in my place. But Amakusa is four hours away&#8230;one way! So round trip, that\u2019s eight hours. We went back and forth several times to talk with them And finally made a deal. So now we get to use Amakusa Black Beef. Our hamburg steaks Are super juicy when you eat them. They don\u2019t gush juice when you cut into them. But when you chew them That sweet, rich flavor of the fat just fills your mouth. Only about 400 of these cows are raised per year! In Fukuoka there are only 2 restaurants That specialize in Amakusa Black Beef Us and one other place. That sign I brought out earlier for the entrance It&#8217;s all handwritten. I didn\u2019t even realize until customers pointed it out But there\u2019s a few spelling mistakes here and there. Like our Teriyaki Hamburg Steak It says &#8220;Teri-aki&#8221;! Pretty bad, huh? And this here says \u201cBanhurg\u201d instead of \u201cHamburg.\u201d My brother took that photo. Isn&#8217;t he good? Posters, food photos, all the visuals We do them all ourselves. My big bro\u2019s awesome at this stuff. Good morning! Good morning! Shiho, here&#8217;s the soup. Whoa! Looks so good! Our soup\u2019s super popular for some reason. Sorry, I shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;for some reason&#8221;. We make our soup fresh every day. We make a different soup each day. It&#8217;s a lot of work. And we make all our sauces from scratch, too. We\u2019re pretty proud of those, too. We also try to keep prices as low as possible But we still want the food to taste amazing So that takes a lot of effort. One &#8220;sho&#8221; of rice is about 1.5 kilos So I put in a whole &#8220;sho&#8221; of effort (pun on &#8220;isshokenmei&#8221;) Haha, good one! That&#8217;s your best joke all day! You can\u2019t really tell by looking at it But the grains are slightly bigger than regular rice. We soak the rice for a whole day. Seal it tight so air doesn&#8217;t get in And leave it in the fridge overnight. You&#8217;re the best gyaru rice-cooker in all of western Japan, right? Oh, you know it. No doubt. Just call me Rice Gyaru. Rice Gyaru! The rice shop I buy from The owner\u2019s like an actual certified rice master. Each grain has a solid texture And when you eat it, it doesn\u2019t get all mushy. People say the grains stay intact and soak up the juices from the meat. Which brings out this sweetness. It really makes amazing rice. So at the veggie shop I went to earlier They told me that if the veggies need a little pick-me-up Just to soak them in water. It makes the leaves nice and crisp again. And it gets rid of that cabbage-y smell, too. Betcha never thought cabbage smelled, huh? I&#8217;ve got a crazy good nose. It really is a lot of work But I think it&#8217;s better to buy all the individual ingredients ourselves. It&#8217;s a lot cheaper, and you can see what you&#8217;re buying. And you can ask the shopkeeper questions, too! It actually takes a lot of muscle. I&#8217;ve got crazy muscles, you know. Insane, right? Alright, we&#8217;re open! Oh my God that looks good! Today\u2019s soup is a Chinese-style soup. One Deluxe! Here\u2019s the ichibo steak. Thanks. It\u2019s insanely good. Thanks! I always eat about this much. The meat\u2019s just so good, I can\u2019t stop. You used to come here ALL the time I come here every Sunday. If it&#8217;s Sunday, here I am. For a while there you basically lived here. Here&#8217;s a Wonder! Here&#8217;s a Teritama-don (Teriyaki egg rice bowl) Whoa! So from here we&#8217;ve got our house steak sauce, rock salt and fresh chopped wasabi. Fresh chopped wasabi! You don&#8217;t see that very often! That&#8217;s right. That&#8217;s right, he says. Help me out here (haha) Let&#8217;s start with the rock salt. What a treat! So good So tender! Steak sauce Amazing, right? And now for a moment in Japanese history&#8230;! Let&#8217;s eat! Is this too big a bite here? Here goes! This is&#8230; Even better than Amazing Donkey!! You mean Bikkuri Donkey, right? The hamburg steak here is insane. I underestimated the hamburg steak, man. I was like there&#8217;s no way hamburg steak could beat real steak. I take it back, man. This is incredible. Here&#8217;s your Tomato Hamburg Steak. Careful, it&#8217;s hot! It&#8217;s my third time? I think. I can have a nice quiet meal by myself. And of course the food&#8217;s really good. Here, have a piece of candy (ame). That&#8217;s right! It was supposed to rain (ame) today! This is a downpour! (of &#8220;ame&#8221;) Not too many places give you candy after you eat! Nice! Available only at Amacro! Available only at Amacro, really? Comin&#8217; at you straight from downtown Nishijin! Aye! The food was awesome! Thank you! Thank you! Please come again! Thanks! Thank you! Thank you! So, when I\u2019m washing dishes When I&#8217;m rinsing them off My gut sticks out more than everyone else So it always gets soaked And then this part here reeks of damp laundry. So I go upstairs to change my shirt every time. At Sukiya I love their Takana Mentaiko Mayo Beef Bowl. I can down two king-sized bowls no problem. Thanks. I may not look like it, but I eat a lot. So some people might be surprised But I can totally put away two bowls easy. That&#8217;s pretty much it. What was it again? A person over 100 kilos is&#8230;what?<br \/>\nA genius? Pure talent! Wanna see how much I weigh now? I was thinking of starting a diet plan So I brought in a scale. Come on, hit 100! Current weight: 103 kilos! Before we opened the shop, she was quite big. For real. We&#8217;re talking about me, now? About the size as him! Yeah, she was almost 100 kilos. I wasn&#8217;t THAT big. Say you&#8217;re sorry. Okay, I went too far. Just a little! A lot of the weight just came off naturally But also my brother said \u201cThere\u2019s only room for one fat person at Amacro.\u201d That hit hard. I wanted to lose weight too&#8230; But the place needs one fat guy. So I&#8217;m taking one for the team and staying fat. I call the owner \u201cShiho-san.\u201d I don\u2019t know if this counts as gratitude, but She\u2019s created such a warm, homey vibe here. I\u2019m almost 10 years younger than her But she treats me like a friend. She always treats me like a good friend And she never gets mad at me, so it&#8217;s easy to work with her. I really appreciate that. From here on, we want to bring in even more customers And eventually open a second or even third location. That&#8217;s our goal So I want to keep working here And help make the place even better. Shiho, the manager She hasn\u2019t changed much since we were kids. She\u2019s more of a hands-on person than a thinker. But after working at a hotel for years She got really good with the customers How she treated them really changed. I could tell she worked really hard there. So I feel confident letting her take charge around here. We want to create the kind of place Where both the staff and customers can have a good time. If everyone leaves with a smile Then we&#8217;ve done our job. What I love about my wife Shiho Is that she&#8217;s so spirited and strong She really brings the rest of us up with her. I really love that about her. I&#8217;d like for us to become a household name. Like, when people think hamburg steak and steak in Fukuoka I want them to think of us. I&#8217;ve been a gyaru for 17 years. So I&#8217;m gonna be a gyaru till the day I day. No matter what anyone says. And people tell me to change a lot. I\u2019ve played tennis all this time. Since junior high. Went to high school and college for tennis. Even made it to the national competition But I was still a gyaru. Is that cool or what? Right? For four years, my husband and I We worked and saved like crazy Living at a hotel where we worked. Over four years, we saved around 15 million yen to start the business. For about a year we trained at a hamburg steak restaurant. That ate into our savings a bit But we put everything we had left into Amacro. That\u2019s how we got started. The cost of ingredients was way more than we thought. Rent, too. We thought we had taken all those things into account But yeah we have been cutting it really close. Sales are going up slowly but surely So we think we\u2019re on the right track. We\u2019re not even close to thinking about opening up a second location yet. No way, not yet. I love customer service. I love chatting with our customers. I suck at school stuff, I can\u2019t memorize anything. But I remember faces. I\u2019m really good at that. So when someone comes back a second time I\u2019m like, \u201cThanks for coming back!\u201d And we start to hit it off. We\u2019ve got lots of regulars now who come like every week. I hope we get more and more. Our goal for the restaurant? Well, when it comes to sales We&#8217;re not where we want to be yet. I\u2019d love to see lines outside the door. That\u2019s the kind of place we want to be. And eventually open more locations And make a name for ourselves outside Fukuoka, too So that when they hear &#8220;Amacro&#8221; they think: &#8220;Oh, the Amakusa Black Beef place!&#8221; We just want to create a cozy, welcoming place for all Where kids, couples, families, everyone can come together and have a good time. Here you go. One Amacro Deluxe! Sorry for the wait! Here&#8217;s your Amacro Deluxe! 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