What started as a peaceful Mother’s Day dinner at Kiku Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar on Camp Creek Parkway turned into a massive brawl between employees and customers.
Video of the fight surfaced online showing people throwing plates, trays and an ice bucket into the dining area.
Sailyn Barlow, 14, and her father captured the incident with their cellphones.
“I’m actually thinking it’s very good stuff,” Barlow told Channel 2 Action News. “I’m thinking, ‘Wow, I’m going to have a lot of views on this if I post it. Wow, I can’t believe this is actually happening. And wow, I hope I don’t get hit with something.”
According to a police report, busboy Demonte Harrison was cleaning tables when a female customer berated him for smiling.
Harrison told the customer it was his job to smile and she couldn’t tell him not to smile.
That’s when a male customer got up and punched Harrison, according to the report. Three other males in the group attacked Harrison, too.
Restaurant owner Charlie Son said his employees attempted to help Harrison fight off the men.
“He’s very upset, very excited,” Son told Channel 2. “He cannot speak. I told him to please go home, just calm down and take a rest.”
No one was seriously injured during the incident, but Son estimated he lost about $5,000 in business after people got up and left during the brawl. The people who started the fight did not pay for their meal, he told Channel 2.
Police are looking for four men and one woman in connection with the brawl, the television station reported.
Sherrae Barlow, Sailyn Barrow’s mother, said the family “tried to make light of [the brawl] so we could continue to enjoy the rest of our Mother’s Day.”
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