>Oh, but you can't get food substitutes in any restaurants and they'll deal with allergies by kicking you out of the store. Yes, I saw several restaurants that

>Oh, but you can't get food substitutes in any restaurants and they'll deal with allergies by kicking you out of the store. Yes, I saw several restaurants that warned that they don't change their recipe. It makes sense: they've optimized their process in the kitchen for those particular dishes, and aren't going to just change things around for one customer. It didn't seem to be a big problem there. So I just have to wonder: why do so many Americans these days have food allergies? This wasn't a problem decades ago. From a little bit of Googling, it seems that Japanese just don't have problems with food allergies the way Americans do. Honestly, they're right to kick you out of the store: you're too much of a liability, and they just aren't prepared to deal with people with such problems. >https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/language-japanese-store.. https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/language-japanese-store.... I have no idea what your point is here. This is an article about the level of politeness to be used by retain employees (the Japanese language has several levels of politeness built-in). I wasn't talking about any details about the usage of the language by employees, I was just talking about them being polite in general, something you don't see in American stores much.