A letter to Mr. Dae Oh.

Dear Mr. Oh,
It is out of sincerest concern for your business ventures that I tell you that your sushi is, well...bad.
Having dined before at Shoku in Grandview, and last night at Red in the Short North, it is my advice that you do better, lest these establishments join Tyfoon in the overcrowded pool of ill-conceived, short-lived, now-defunct 'trendy' sushi restaurants. It wouldn't be a fatal flaw if the poor quality of your food were not matched with astronomical pricing, tiny portions, lack of creativity and lackluster service.
As it is, the fish (even the salmon and yellowtail which was suggested as the freshest) was not fresh, and as I had noticed before at Shoku, inexpertly cut. I know, I know; We're in Ohio, thousands of miles from the ocean, but I've had better sushi from a strip mall joint in Gahanna. It was priced higher than the exceptional quality sushi restaurant where I worked on the upper west side of Manhattan, the rolls were obviously lifted from a variety of more successful sushi restaurants in town (all of them slathered with spicy mayo and tempura flakes,) my husband's $9 cocktail arrived in a half-full (I guess in this case, half-empty) martini glass  and the ambiance was spoiled by 3 giant-screen TVs perched above the otherwise lovely sushi bar.
As there was nothing satisfactory about my dining experience last night, it would be cruel to elaborate much further, but there is a general half-assedness that pervades each of your establishments in which I have been unfortunate enough to have dined. Given that both Red and Two Fish were nearly completely empty during prime dinner hours (albeit, on a Monday--but with 'buy one get one half off' sushi, you should be able to draw more than 6 diners) I would say that it's time to re-examine your strategy--purchasing, menu development, hiring, training...everything.
I want you to succeed. I want you to keep pouring money into the Short North. So please accept this letter as a sort of intervention: go to rehab and then we'll talk again.