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- Why do some Japanese restaurants make you pour your own water?Walk into a few restaurants in Japan and you'll notice that water is handled very differently from one to the next.
- Why Saizeriya's Spot-the-Difference Is So Hard (and Why It's Smart)Every time I go to Saizeriya, a budget Italian family restaurant chain in Japan, one thing catches my eye.
- Why is Yokkaichi full of glitch-priced food? Port canteens and outlets“Are there places in Yokkaichi that are cheap for an interesting reason, rather than simply being cheap restaurants?”
- Why Are Breakfast Specials So Cheap Yet So Painful for Staff? — Morning Demand, Fixed Hourly Pay, and the Restaurant “Frenemy” ProblemWalk into a family restaurant or café on a weekday morning and you may see a huge dining room with only a few occupied tables.
- Why so much casual speech at the register? Service sociolinguisticsAt city offices, clinics, and restaurants, everyone somehow sounded unusually relaxed.
- The Weekday Lunch Research Club — Hunting the Cheap Daytime Entrance to Expensive Restaurants in Higashi-MikawaRestaurant seats cannot be stored as inventory.
- How Does Saizeriya Run Fully Self-Service Checkout Without Anyone Watching?More and more Saizeriya branches (an inexpensive Italian-style family restaurant chain in Japan) now use fully self-service checkout.
- People don't want to grind at work. They want to tell the story of how their life movedOver the years I've talked one-on-one with about 150 people, in new-hire orientations and in follow-up interviews.
- What is fine dining like, and what do you pay for? Rokkakudo and KEIFine dining has an easy stereotype: an enormous plate, a three-centimeter piece of meat in the middle, decorative sauce dots everywhere, and a bill that…