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Post by supersonic74 on Jun 8, 2006 8:14:50 GMT -5
I don't think it has a racial issue...I guess it has to do with communication...for example the chinese restaurant...it's a lot easier when they are chinese cuz they speak the same language..as some of them doesn't speak english, or other then mandarin/cantonesee, very well. And for other reason would be that they allready know what food they serve...cuz they are kinda raise with it.
hmmm that reminds me of a Indonesian restaurant in Amsterdam..they have employees from different backrounds...like not only indonesian..they also have a malaysian, chinese, singaporean and an ambonese...all of them speaks malay so its easy to communicate...hmmm it's not a great example but hopefully you get my point.
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Post by londongirl on Jun 8, 2006 13:18:23 GMT -5
I think that it definitely helps. I went to a wagamama restaurant the other day, and found that the majority of staff were asians from all backgrounds. There was even one filipino/white guy. This was obviously nothing to do with communication, but more to do with the racial association that whites have with japanese food and yellow people.
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Post by Micha on Jun 8, 2006 13:34:16 GMT -5
When you go to a decent ethnic restaurant e.g. Chinese, you expect to see it packed with Chinese workers - I have never seen anything else. The mindset people have is that they need to see Chinese workers in a Chinese restaurant or it's not half-decent - usually true, it'd be rare to find a Portugese man who can cook ethnic Dim-Sum etc. It just aids with the 'aura' of the place however, the really cheap take-away, although staffed by illiterate baffoons BUT who are 'ethnic', tastes like crap.
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Post by londongirl on Jun 8, 2006 14:00:50 GMT -5
Yeah, but wagamamas is a restaurant that serves fast food essentially, there is no skill involved in cooking those dishes. Its a reflection of society's expectation to see someone of x ethnicity in that ethnicities restaurant, in my opinion.
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Post by Micha on Jun 8, 2006 16:04:15 GMT -5
It's weird with Wagamamas, I swear the rice and other food tastes like Chinese (home) cooking.
That ^ isn't true in all cases (going out on a limb here) e.g. Yo Sushi! employs people who can actually make Sushi (not the easiest of tasks) yet many are S. Asian, Black and White. I do agree with you about society's expectations as I'm often skeptical thinking 'she's Indian, how can she make good, authentic sushi?'
Oh yeah and Wagamamas makes THE best chocalate cake with wasabi and the coconut ice-cream is exquisite..mm..
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Post by davidbleo on Jun 8, 2006 20:33:34 GMT -5
Well... most of the chinese restaurants are owned by chinese people who find easier to work with other chinese people and so on... That rule has many exception, here I know an excellent japanese restaurant owned by mexicans... (maybe is racist to use mexicans in a restaurant in Mexico )
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Post by davidbleo on Jun 8, 2006 20:36:59 GMT -5
Who's a FOB
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Post by ineffable on Jun 8, 2006 20:50:43 GMT -5
Fresh Off the Boat (basically a newcomer)
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Post by Farmer Moustachio on Jun 8, 2006 21:12:58 GMT -5
Most japanese restaurants here are owned and staffed by koreans or chinese people there's also a lot of italian restaurants run by greeks or lebanese, and chinese restaurants run by vietnamese. They're probably guessing no one can tell the difference, but it doesn't matter since you go for the food right?
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Post by shugi on Jun 8, 2006 22:05:23 GMT -5
I compare it to chopsticks, - Which is silly but meh
When you go to a italian restaraunt it wouldnt feel right eating it with chopsticks. When you go into a Asian restaraunt and they give you a knife and fork, you'd expect chopsticks.
What im trying to say is, its a set mindset, like a complimentary assurance of your dining experience to have the cook from the same culture. If the cook wasnt from the same culture, it doesnt demean the quality at all. But most people would prefer that the whole experience be as Genuine as possible.
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Post by faithless on Jun 8, 2006 22:25:11 GMT -5
it's just weird.
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Post by londongirl on Jun 9, 2006 1:26:03 GMT -5
Davidbleo, in regards to FOB, its mainly used to describe asian immigrants, in reference to their way of speaking and mannerisms etc. Farmer mafiosa, I think that the management of a restaurant should always be of that ethnicity, for the purpose of quality control.
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Post by miaim on Jun 9, 2006 5:22:48 GMT -5
When you go to a decent ethnic restaurant e.g. Chinese, you expect to see it packed with Chinese workers - I have never seen anything else. The mindset people have is that they need to see Chinese workers in a Chinese restaurant or it's not half-decent - usually true, too true...i also like to make sure it's full of Chinese, or whoever....who wants to pay to eat fake ethnic food? it pisses me off no end.... on a side note, it doesn't bother me in the least that the Chinese pretend to be japs when they run jap restaurants...i just don't go... peace
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Post by Aiko on Jun 9, 2006 18:35:22 GMT -5
Haha most of the cooks in local Chinese restaurants are Mexicans. And there are two Japanese restaurants in the whole city that are owned by actual Japanese people and not Koreans or Chinese. It still feels a bit weird when seeing a Caucasian person use chopsticks. It's an American way of life I guess. Everybody does a little something else.
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Post by ConceptDesign on Jun 12, 2006 10:28:18 GMT -5
If that is true, why isn't Maccas, KFC and Burger King staffed by Americans?
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