If there were a Super Bowl for grocery-store events, Emeryville had its this weekend with the grand opening of Tokyo Central.
The long-awaited Asian supermarket celebrated its debut on Saturday, Jan. 31, and Sunday, Feb. 1, with lines snaking up and down the block, a store worker at the door letting people in one or two at a time.
A security guard monitoring the crowd estimated the wait to get in on Sunday afternoon at two hours. “Good thing I didn’t work yesterday,” he said. “Yesterday was worse. It was looped around down to the parking lot.”…