In celebration of the chain’s five-year anniversary, a local sushi restaurant is rolling back menu prices to $5.
How Do You Roll?, at 1802 W. University Ave., is selling every roll — including tuna, salmon, steak and chicken — at the reduced prices until Halloween.
“The average ticket for one roll usually comes up to about $8 to $10. But this month, anything over $5 will start off at $5 or less,” said Brittany McGee, marketing director of the franchise.
The franchise came to Gainesville this March.
It offers an experience different from other sushi restaurants nearby, said Matt Aschenbrener, manager of the Gainesville branch. All the food made to serve is cooked in less than three minutes.
“We don’t make you go through that 15-minute sit-down wait like other franchises,” he said.
But Kelly Brown, a 20-year-old UF food science and human nutrition junior, said she’s skeptical.
“Fast-food sushi sounds a little sketchy to me,” she said.
A version of this story ran on page 1 on 10/21/2013 under the headline "Sushi shop chops prices to $5"
