I don't assume that many of the staff are permanent residents. I think they just bring chefs and waitstaff from Japan on H-1B visas or mebbe even tourist visas, work them in the restaurant for 6 munffs, then send them back to Japan and import another tranche. Kinda like "work in the USA for six munffs and make bank, then return home". So they don't need to learn Engrish velly goodly.
I don't know, butt this is my guess. Of course those on a tourist or education visa are nott supposed to work without a work permit, butt we all know how that rule is ignored in the food service industry. Ninety percent of kitchen staff at any joynt are illegal Mexicans and Central Americanos. So I imagine it's nott that hard to use illegal Japanese labour too.
It's just my guess, because I've been going to this place for a cuppla years and their Engrish never getts any better, and the staff turnover seems pretty high. So 2+2 equals sweatshop labour pool.
There is a great Thai place in this smallish city too - also with staff that is nott so goodly at Engrish, and nobuddy here butt them speaks Thai. They might be doing the same thing.
Strangely, there s no great Chinese restaurants in the city - OK ones, butt nothing spectacular. Thai, Japanese, and Greek - yepp - 5 stars (3 Michelin stars). Chinese - OK, nothing four or five star though.
The city also lacks a decent donut shop and a decent bread bakery. The closest decent bread is a German bäckerei and konditorei that is a one hunnert mile drive from here. So once every two munffs, DaSquaw makes a haul of a hunnert miles each way to heist some decent breads and pastries and cakes and rings and such, and then they freeze a bunch of it in the basement upright freezer and live off the stuph for the next 8 weeks until the next long-haul trip for bread, pastries, and rings/kringle/strudel.
I bought them one regular sourdough bread and one uber-sour 'bitey' Russian-style caraway rye loaf from the Bess Coast. The stuph they can gett here that is callt 'sourdough' is nott so sour and nott so gut, IMO.
OTOH, one of DaSquaw's cuzzins gave her a HUGE Tupperware-style CONtainer full of farm raspberries (about the same amount as 2/3rd of a gallon bucket, butt stacked only 6 inches high to avoid crushing the ones on the bottom. And two quarts of farm blueberries. All free! It's great to have relatives nearby who actively farm. Also gott 18 ears of farm sweet corn free. And ~OUTT of personal and professional pride, they always give you the best stuph from their gartens and sweet corn crop.
Jussed no more dressed rabbits. Chickens OK, bunnies notsomuch. And in hunting seasons, DaSquaw getts free venison, venison sausage, and ducks. Sometimes a pheasant. One of her cousins goes to Colorado for elk season, and he usually scores big and there is elk sausage and elk jerky handed ~OUTT to relatives to share his hunting prowess.
If it wasn't for the weather - specifically winter and the summer humidity - this would be a great place to live. Axespeshully if the skeeters are gone as they are this year. Cali has too many peeples and too many axe-holes. Butt they need a decent bread and pastry bakery, a great Chinese restaurant or three, sour sourdough breads, a decent donut shop (other than the Dunkin Donuts), and a really good authentic Mexican street food joynt. Those and mebbe a Turkish restaurant would make this burg a serious CONtender.
If they could gett more than the one air carrier that services this burg with a whopping two flights per day, and the last inbound one too early for me to catch the CONnection meaning that I'd have a overnight layover at O'Hare (which in itself isn't necessarily a show-stopper for me, as I can pick up kishka at Harczak's on Higgins and poppyseed cake from Vesecky’s on Cermak in Berwyn (as Bohemian an address as you can gett in the USA). The old Village bakery on Belmont is sadly gone, butt Vesecky’s does a yeoman's poppyseed cake.
Mebbe I can induce one of the local binnisspeeples to try and gett a Tim Horton's franchise here. That might be the straw that makes me agree to a part-time residence here, jussed nott in winters.
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