I lived and worked in Japan for 6 years, and according to my observations, you speak the truth. This chef has his own particular style of running his sushi-ya,

I lived and worked in Japan for 6 years, and according to my observations, you speak the truth. This chef has his own particular style of running his sushi-ya, which I personally wouldn't enjoy participating in, as someone who doesn't like to be ordered around by anyone - especially someone I'm paying my money to in order to receive food (I eat to live, not live to eat) - and I'd have probably exited the establishment soon after being barked at :) Not that I'm a particular fan of raw fish anyway - something that caused no end of comedy and drama during my 6 years in Japan, but that's a tale for some other date and place ;)