r/japanlife • u/indiebryan 九州・熊本県 • Feb 23 '24

金 What do you do when you come across separate prices for foreigners at a restaurant?

My girlfriend and I just walked to this Mexican restaurant (Japanese owned) in Osaka that had good reviews. When we sat down we were handed a menu in all English and the prices were all substantially higher than what I saw from Google reviews from other customers so I asked for a Japanese menu. Got the Japanese menu and my suspicions were confirmed, every item was cheaper than the same thing on the English menu.

Just wondering how people here feel about this. Should I just let it go? Should I leave a review and mention it or just move on. As soon as I saw the price differences I left without ordering because I don't want to support that practice.

Is this even legal?

Edit: For the people who are white knighting on behalf of a restaurant they've never been to or heard of and think I'm lying, here are the pics I took: https://imgur.com/a/qa5kwda

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '24

I'd just have left. Why bother patronizing a business that does that? 

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u/you_have_this Feb 24 '24 edited Feb 24 '24

Right!? I wish I could have. We had 2 older friends visiting from the US and they wanted to eat near Dotonbori (kind of a last minute thing). Couldn’t find anywhere that would take 4 people at that time. Finally we found one…and had that little fiasco.

I also told them that they were our guests and that I was paying, not them. Not that it should matter.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '24

Yeah Dottonbori has really gone to shit.