Jouichirou Yukihira

The father of Sma Yukihira and owner of the diner Yukihira in the Sumire Shopping District. His passion for cooking knows no bounds and his skill is worldclass. As the sole parentalfigure and family member in Smas life he is a mentor teacher and rival to his son. Like Sma Jichir is laidback but professional and has a serious side that emerges when he is cooking. The two share the same habit of creating horrible experimental dishes. Jichir is supportive of his son but does occasionally like to see Sma stressed and frustrated by challenging him to many cookoffs always ending in Jichirs victory to show him how much he has to grow. He left home to work abroad and sent his son to Ttsuki Academy telling Sma that he needs to succeed in Ttsuki if he ever wants to surpass him. Source: Wikipedia