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Since its near you, have you tried going there and explaining it to the manager?

by passivate 4y ago

briandear 4y ago
Does the manager not know their menu is misspelled?
- philsnow 4y ago
  Perfect spelling and/or beautiful layout on a Chinese restaurant menu is a bit of a red flag for me.
  - mitchdoogle 4y ago
    Why? I can understand cutting Chinese restaurants some slack because of a possible language barrier with owners, but what's wrong with ones who are fluent in English? Or have the resources to hire a good agency to put together their menu and proofread it?
    - Moru 4y ago
      Not GP but I have the same red flag system. If it's perfect english (or whatever native language you use) it's more likely that not the restaurant is run by a native, not a real chinese family. So warning flags, most likely not the best the chinese kitchen can deliver :-)
    - philsnow 4y ago
      Sibling post by Moru has it mostly right Additionally, I have it in my head that not bothering to fix menus shows a certain admirable pragmatism. "Frind pok" is not correct but it is correct enough.
    - astrange 4y ago
      It's a way to find family-owned restaurants. The other ones are "good Asian restaurants have bad service" (though I don't think that's true anymore) and "good restaurants will never be expensive". The last one is a problem because real family restaurants do want to raise prices/be more upscale too, but none of their customers will let them because they expect banh mi to be $3.
  - wincy 4y ago
    If my family is any indication, the menu won’t get corrected until the restaurant owner sends their child to American schools and the kid gets old enough to fix it. Just give it 11 or 12 years.
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tialaramex 4y ago
My friend Chris spends a lot more time in their restaurant and is at least as pedantic about this sort of thing as I am, also he knows the people who own it fairly well, so I'm confident he's mentioned it. However while the restaurant's manager might care, as I understand it her husband is the hard core chef who ensured it's a success, why should he give a shit? Presumably the errors are just in the text for stupid barbarians like me - many of them don't even order from his real menu anyway. His taste is what matters, nobody comes to the restaurant because of the typography or web site design, they come to eat his food.

Since its near you, have you tried going there and explaining it to the manager?

briandear 4y ago

Does the manager not know their menu is misspelled?

philsnow 4y ago
Perfect spelling and/or beautiful layout on a Chinese restaurant menu is a bit of a red flag for me.
- mitchdoogle 4y ago
  Why? I can understand cutting Chinese restaurants some slack because of a possible language barrier with owners, but what's wrong with ones who are fluent in English? Or have the resources to hire a good agency to put together their menu and proofread it?
  - Moru 4y ago
    Not GP but I have the same red flag system. If it's perfect english (or whatever native language you use) it's more likely that not the restaurant is run by a native, not a real chinese family. So warning flags, most likely not the best the chinese kitchen can deliver :-)
  - philsnow 4y ago
    Sibling post by Moru has it mostly right Additionally, I have it in my head that not bothering to fix menus shows a certain admirable pragmatism. "Frind pok" is not correct but it is correct enough.
  - astrange 4y ago
    It's a way to find family-owned restaurants. The other ones are "good Asian restaurants have bad service" (though I don't think that's true anymore) and "good restaurants will never be expensive". The last one is a problem because real family restaurants do want to raise prices/be more upscale too, but none of their customers will let them because they expect banh mi to be $3.
- wincy 4y ago
  If my family is any indication, the menu won’t get corrected until the restaurant owner sends their child to American schools and the kid gets old enough to fix it. Just give it 11 or 12 years.
- deleted 4y ago
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tialaramex 4y ago

My friend Chris spends a lot more time in their restaurant and is at least as pedantic about this sort of thing as I am, also he knows the people who own it fairly well, so I'm confident he's mentioned it. However while the restaurant's manager might care, as I understand it her husband is the hard core chef who ensured it's a success, why should he give a shit? Presumably the errors are just in the text for stupid barbarians like me - many of them don't even order from his real menu anyway. His taste is what matters, nobody comes to the restaurant because of the typography or web site design, they come to eat his food.