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In article <2186@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
 >>P.S. How do you visitors in Japan feel about humberger shops
 >>     in Japan?  Are they similar to those in USA?  I understand
 >>     that SIZE or DIAMETER :-) of hamburgs differ, but any others?
 >
 >The only hamburger shop I eat at is MacDonald's and as far as I
 >remember they are the same as I've eaten in the U.S. and other 
 >countries. But then MacDonald's prides itself on being able to
 >offer the same thing all over the world.

You are right in saying MacDonal's serves identical BigMacs,
file-o-fishes (sorry for spelling) and so on in a lot of countries.
But here in Japan BigMacs are regarded as BIG, whereas they seem
small compared with popular quarter-pounders in US and UK. So the size
is one of the differences as Mr Kuno suggested between Japan and these
two countries.  I wonder if it is the case in other countries.

Another aspect I noticed in UK is:  In Japan most customers who eat in
the shop dump garbages in trash, and in UK about 80% or so of them
just leave trays and garbages on the table.  Shop attendantes collect
them and wipe the table as soon as customers leave the table,
improving UK's employment rate a little bit :-)

And there are freshly-cut sandwitch shops other than hamberger shops.
They serves much better food than the latter IMHO, though for me it
was hard to get what I wanted because of my tiny vocabulary for names
of foods.  Yes, in those shops, you NAME the type of bread and the
foods you like to fill in, and they make your sandwitches. 
My choice was beef-cheese-and-coleslaw-in-a-bun which were all in my
vocabulary.  I ordered it so often that they began making it before I
utter a word.

BTW, has anyone really suggested that English be the only language
used here other than Japanese?  I sure I haven't seen such a posting,
or have I just missed it?   I object such a ristriction, though I only
understand Japanese, English and German.
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Yoshiaki KOHNO  <aki@mel.toshiba.co.jp>
IRC, Manufacturing Engineering Research Center, TOSHIBA Corp.
33, Shin-Isogo-cho, Isogo-ku, Yokohama, 235 JAPAN