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    „Ausländerpreise“ werden scheitern: Der Ramen-Shop-Skandal in Osaka erweist sich als einzige Lösung für die Doppelpreisgestaltung

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    1. Freak_Out_Bazaar on

      That is the absolute incorrect way to do dual-pricing. Of course that will fail. There’s also the right way that uses residency status as a differentiator which I support

    2. Sea_Individual_3148 on

      Lol the tweet in the news article is saying a chinese person can read Kanji and found out about the double price system (english vs Japanese), therefore the guy is proposing to ban chinese tourists as a solution…

      Dam god forbid other foreigners that can also read japanese.

      If you want to do double pricing just be upfront about it? Why try to hide it then get mad when someone found out (then be like dam frigging foreigners’ fault again)?

      Also why not just do by ID or something…? Anyone will feel it’s shady when its hidden based on menu language

    3. BadIdeaSociety on

      It is not unusual (in the US) for a tourist attraction or local business to have a resident’s discount. It is usually quite local though (within the town or county) and not based on nationality. 

    4. Akamas1735 on

      They should just do what businesses in Hawaii do—offer kama aina (local resident) discounts. No one complains about that difference that I have ever seen or heard.

    5. ThomasKyoto on

      The difference between ‘local resident discounts’ and ‘higher prices for foreigners’ is the difference between rational fairness and xenophobia.

    6. Quiet-Tadpole-1072 on

      I looked up this restaurant and it appears that if you are a foreigner they will make you order on the screen in a language other than Japanese. I think even if you can read Japanese they will make you pay the foreigner price. As a resident who lives here and is fluent in Japanese, fuck this restaurant.

      edit: read some more google reviews and if you are a foreigner who tries to order on the japanese screen a staff member will come over and yell at you to order in your native language

    9. SavingsSpite6366 on

      I would take one look at those prices on the English menu and know instantly they’re exorbitant for a chain restaurant and ask them in Japanese why they don’t have a Japanese menu 😆

    11. DoomedKiblets on

      It’s racist at its core and a truly terrible idea. I’m a resident here, and I don’t want to deal with this shit ever fucking time I eat or go somewhere cuz „show your papers“

    13. thats_gotta_be_AI on

      Can’t I just point to the kanji written item on the menu (with its associated price) and order it that way? Does the owner then lie and say we don’t have that in stock, or would he say “that item is not available to you because of how I perceive you”?

    14. qwertyqyle on

      Why is the author’s title „Director of the International Casino Research Institute?“

    15. MegaMechWorrier on

      Hm, there’s a cute mascot for everything.

      I think that what’s needed here is a Bigot-chan mascot.

      That way, there would be no need for pissing about with bigoted pricing for the strange foreigner man, or broadcasting their bigotry to the world.

      No. Instead, they would simply have to purchase an official Bigot-chan sign from the ward office to display on their shop’s door.

      That way, potential patrons would easily be able to tell that the business owner is a bigot, and take their business elsewhere.

    16. pcurve on

      Just do what some European places do.. Provide EU resident discount. Either provide discount for Japanese resident or local resident. But they should not do this for food / restaurants.

    17. ghim7 on

      Some restaurants didn’t charge extra but simply gives you English menu with 4 items to choose from, while the Japanese menu has 30+ items 😂

    18. Copperton on

      Why can’t Japan just charge one of those tourist tax at the airport like other countries do..? To be honest, I want to visit Japan again but seeing this is really turning me off…

    19. EvictionSpecialist on

      I’d pay to eat somewhere else just because of the principle. Hope this shop closes soon. FTP

    20. scotchegg72 on

      “Foreigners should assimilate”. Foreigners learn language so can read the scams. “Not like that!”

    21. shchemprof on

      If you have a separate price for foreigners, I’m not giving you my business.

    22. xuanq on

      I’m sorry, I’ve never had good experiences in Osaka. Many say those in Osaka are boisterous and direct (in a good way), but IMO many of them really are just rude and xenophobic – not just against foreigners, but even also against Japanese people who are not from Kansai.

    23. Apherious on

      This is the start of overall inflation. Foreign or not Japan is about to get expensive for everyone

    24. KawaKurisu on

      Bet they shit themselves when I go there with my Japanese husband and family and they don’t know what to do when confronted in Japanese by a Japanese person

    25. TokyoLosAngeles on

      I want to go there and purposely try to order in Japanese and yell at them and cause a scene. Fuck this place.

    26. vnmslsrbms on

      Yeah we were just in Okinawa and at a yakitori place, initially they gave us the Japanese menu so we saw the prices but then they gave us the English menu which was like 10 pct more

    27. ShinkyuuVoices on

      Japan is literally the country of “I literally hate everyone else so much id rather kill myself than even think about opening up to others.” In every sense of this phrase I just came up with.

    28. PowerfulWind7230 on

      Ask to see the gaijin card and charge cheaper. No gaijin card (zairyu) means tourist so pay higher prices. It’s fair cause the yen is so weak.

    29. ryanyork92 on

      こういうレベルの低いことを平気でする国になってほしくない。

    30. notinterestedindonut on

      Yea I think framing might the problem, because having a “local resident discount” or a point card that only locals use seems more ethical. This is just out and out racism it seems which there’s so much of it in Japan idk how you would even combat it.

    31. Lord_Bentley on

      Just do what I did! Buy a camping car (no hotels), buy foods at the grocery (for that local feel), cook in the camping car (no restaurants) and just chill by walking around in a new city! Nobody scamming me!

    33. DaimonHans on

      200 IQ solution: discount locals instead of upcharging foreigners 🤣🤣🤣

    34. SeriousMannequin on

      Wow they upcharge more than soapland does to foreigners.

      >!As told to me by someone…!<

    35. SuperLeverage on

      How dare you foreigners learn to read Japanese (or even use Google translate)!

    37. andres1ar on

      A simple solution for all this BS would be:
      Tonkotsu Ramen: 2000 yen
      Other items in the menu: xxx yen
      (At the bottom of the list, in Japanese) Residents 50% off

    38. MemeL_rd on

      Or OR OR…..

      Instead of naming it as that, name it as a Japanese citizen discount and offer it at lower price to folks who have a MyNumber Card (or Japanese license) as a discount code on your register instead of this.

      There are more sensible ways to do this people

    39. ko-reanlla on

      That Chinese tourist really did us a favour, they don’t play around when it comes to blatant scams

    40. ImmediateVirus9864 on

      Be upfront with the double pricing…india does this as well, but they are honest about it…..and in both cases the foreign and indian prices are written in clear english.

      Foreigners won’t just run away if they need to pay 30% more than the Japanese.

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