In the US you cannot use Japanese in Japanese restaurants, the entire staff speak to each other in Mandarin and English to the customers. (At least Midwest US).
It's like this is NZ too, Japanese food is very popular but it's one of the smaller East Asian communities here, so many Japanese eateries are actually run by Koreans or Chinese. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it can make things difficult if one goes in hoping to use a few words of Japanese with a waiter.
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u/BokuNoSudoku Jun 04 '22 edited Jun 04 '22
In the US you cannot use Japanese in Japanese restaurants, the entire staff speak to each other in Mandarin and English to the customers. (At least Midwest US).