The result: a hamburger. But not just any hamburger. A hamburger that would be of such delicacy, such perfection, such epicurean delight that it would merit mention in five-star cuisine circles and would demand ranking among the very finest in fine dining. Akio achieved that pinnacle, and a new term had to be coined in the Japanese lexicon for it: the gourmet hamburger.
With no job and no direction, he walked the streets of Tokyo, wondering, “What am I? What is life? What do I want to do in life?”
People flock to his Brozers’ restaurants now and gaze as one might gaze at a da Vinci at the towering (over nine centimeters) “Lot Burger,” one of 35 varieties of gourmet burgers on the bill of fare. Out of 9,000 burger restaurants in Japan, Akio’s booming business takes home first place year after year.
It wasn’t always this way. At age 22, Akio Kitaura didn’t know who he was. “I had no goals,” he remembers. With no job and no direction, he walked the streets of Tokyo, wondering, “What am I? What is life? What do I want to do in life? What, what, what?”
His introduction to Scientology changed all that. “I started to know who I am—a spiritual being, not a body. Scientology gave me a different perspective in life.”
Then one night, while sweeping up after hours at the burger shop where he’d found work, he had his aha moment: Open up his own restaurant with a completely new culinary take on the burger—unlike anything the world had tasted before. The idea gave him goose bumps.
Now, operating five Brozers’ and having mentored and “graduated” more than 30 staff who have since themselves opened up their own restaurants, Akio’s success has been covered by over 100 magazines and TV platforms.
And it’s all, according to Akio, “because of Scientology.”
Watch his story on Meet A Scientologist, only on Scientology Network.
