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These American-style pancakes are abnormally thin and exhibit tapered edges consistent with okonomiyaki.
Item #: SCP-3352
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Currently the Foundation owns the site where SCP-3352 occurs. The site is rented below the market rate to a restaurant operator unaffiliated with the Foundation.
The SCP-3352 site is prime real estate inside a major center of commerce. Keeping the public away is not practical: in the past, the behavior of guard crews, construction crews, demolition crews, and research groups has been mostly indistinguishable from the behavior of SCP-3352-1 instances.
No tenant is permitted to remain on the SCP-3352 site for over three months unless a test is ongoing. Wisconsin zoning law combined with the details of the leasing agreement means that evicting a tenant is instant and painless.
Foundation staff are not permitted to visit the SCP-3352 site or give orders to SCP-3352-1 staff. The appropriate response to any conflict involving an SCP-3352-1 instance is to evict everyone and wait for a new tenant.
SCP-3352-1 entities are generally unsuccessful after leaving the site. However, to ensure they fail, the Foundation will purchase and liquidate all SCP-3352-1 entities shortly after eviction. To simplify legal issues and contain economic damages, franchisees of chain businesses are no longer allowed to lease the SCP-3352 site.
Instances of SCP-3352-2 are not dangerous to humans nor do humans who interact with them display any anomalous effects. They are not subject to any containment procedures.
Description: SCP-3352 is a phenomenon that affects a specific 100x35-foot strip mall space in ███████, Wisconsin. SCP-3352 is known to have occurred continually since 1963. (when the strip mall was constructed)
The strip mall space is designed to host a restaurant, but technically suitable for other tenants. One architectural irregularity differentiates the SCP-3352 site from others in the same mall: the divider between the kitchen/storage area is missing, and the countertop along either side of the kitchen has been extended nine feet into the serving zone. This irregularity exists in the original floor plan.
Any tenant business of SCP-3352 is designated an instance of SCP-3352-1. Any new menu item introduced by such a tenant after opening is designated an instance of SCP-3352-2.
Any restaurant that opens on the SCP-3352 site will eventually sell teppanyaki.1 Items other than teppanyaki will eventually be removed from the menu, including non-fried Japanese foods such as sushi or fried non-Japanese food items such as General Tso's chicken.
Most SCP-3352-1 instances exhibit a gradual change in cuisine style. Traditional American-style restaurants (the mainstay cuisine type in ████████, Wisconsin) often exhibit a version of these phases:
- serving a wider range of breakfast foods
- serving griddle-only entrees at all times of day
- serving okonomiyaki-like American-style foods such as chicken and waffles, biscuits and gravy
- finally, serving dishes recognizable as okonomiyaki, along with griddled steaks and sometimes katsu
This usually takes less than six months to occur.
SCP-3352-1 instances will continue to sell American soft drinks, smoothies, shakes, and soup items if those items appeared on the original menu. Beverages will be adjusted to incorporate green tea or boba if appropriate for that food style. Tea and coffee are typically brewed in milk or cream instead of ordinary water, even if this is damaging to preparation equipment.
The altered menu is generally not successful. Many SCP-3352-1 instances close before their sixth month, and none have ever lasted longer than a year. There are no successful Japanese restaurants elsewhere in ████████.
Protanopia-friendly floorplan diagram generated by Foundation laser scanning. The red zone is the full extent of the kitchen; the blue zone is the extension unique to the floor plan of this particular unit. Note the large seating areas on all three sides. Entrance is to the far left.
All instances of SCP-3352-1, regardless of business needs, eventually adopt the topology of a teppanyaki restaurant. The seating area is rearranged so that as many seats as possible face the kitchen/storage area. Before the sixth month, all SCP-3352-1 instances erect a third row of countertops facing the kitchen from the unclosed side, completing the box.
Non-restaurant businesses including a massage parlor, a graphic design firm, and a gym have also rented this space, and have adopted this layout even when it is not feasible for their business type. Such businesses will introduce some form of East Asian snack food, the production of which will inevitably, abruptly, eclipse the original purpose of the business:
- An insurance franchise began issuing fortune cookies after routine service. Every non-East Asian employee except one dramatically underperformed until being fired. The remaining employee had culinary experience. The owner was promoted to an executive role out of town and her Japanese subordinate took her original role. Tenants began to sell homemade buckwheat pastry instead of insurance.
- A for-profit Christian college made latkes to celebrate Passover.2 The dean fired her entire staff after they failed to sell any latkes to the general public. Tenants switched to a new pancake recipe based on yams, eggs, skirt steak, and shredded cabbage.
- An aromatherapy center hired an intern who prepared a vat of kimchee using the equipment. This ruined the equipment for its intended purpose of synthesizing essential oils. Owner bought a griddle, eggs, and flour to sell the kimchee off in the form of jeon.3 However, afraid the kimchee was contaminated from essential oil production, they threw it away and used the remaining cabbage to make okonomiyaki instead. Intern was fired for misuse of lab equipment.
