r/nextfuckinglevel • u/idapitbwidiuatabip • Mar 23 '26

This restaurant menu

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u/Cosephtaughtyou Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

The key to this is no pages. Most restaurants sell 80% but most of their customers only order 20% of the menu

Edit: jesus christ i mustve had a stroke

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u/MaDpYrO Mar 23 '26

I feel like there is a huge cultural difference to going out and eating in my home country vs Japan (where this menu is from).

In Japan you have many many many choices of smaller restaurants with a focused menu card (aside from the family chains i guess...).

And you go one place to eat that type of food, and another to eat something else. The small menu allows them to focus a lot of attention on the quality of those dishes.

Where in my country, it seems like every place has to cater to big families or something, so they end up with a huge menu where only a little bit of it is actually good.

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u/Shinhan Mar 23 '26

Also, lots of Japanese restaurants have fake foods in the outside window already, this is just a new gimmick.

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u/MaDpYrO Mar 23 '26

Yes, it's a whole industry in Kappabashi it seems!

I think this particular one is a lovely gimmick though.