Philly cheesesteak joint: Speak English when ordering
Philly cheesesteak joint: Speak English when ordering
"Bistec con queso?" Not at this place. Geno's Steaks, a South Philadephia cheesesteak shop, well known locally and nationally, has put in place an English-only ordering policy.
Is this a good thing? Basically no customer is turned away but the staff will coach customers on the key language of ordering the house speciality. :)
As encouraged as I am that folks are encouraging the use of English, I'm with someone else quoted in the article. Is this the right way or is this just being unduly harsh on immigrants?
Of course, I'd fully expect to have to order with the local language in other countries. Heck, Berlitz and others sell tons of phrase books and key language cheat sheets for just such things as ordering food and finding bathrooms. :)
Well, what do you fine folks think?
Yours,
Tojo
1 thoughts:
I was in a restaurant in the states last week where the staff did not speak English!
I think it serves no useful purpose to institute a policy about acceptable languages for placing orders. That's the sort of thing we have to do with computer systems in order to get formal guarantees for composed systems. Humans, on the other hand, are better adapted to the use of informal heuristics.
It's in everyone's best interest to speak as many languages as possible, so that communication is more likely to be possible and successful.
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