{"id":2145,"date":"2007-02-26T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/yes_its_more_expensive_but_its_a_small_price_to_pay_for_the_comfort_in_not_knowing_that_the_other_menu_features_squirrel.html"},"modified":"2007-02-26T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:06:02","slug":"yes_its_more_ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/yes_its_more_ex.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It’s More Expensive, But It’s A Small Price To Pay For The Comfort In Not Knowing That The Other Menu Features Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not news that Chinese restaurants everywhere have reserve suckier menus for gweilo. So it’s gratifying to learn that some are also charging such diners accordingly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The price you pay for your beef with string beans depends entirely on whether or not you are Chinese — at least according to the menus at one restaurant in Chinatown, city officials say.<\/p>\n

The city Human Rights Commission has filed a discrimination complaint against the Canal Seafood Restaurant for allegedly giving a different menu with lower prices to customers who are Chinese.<\/p>\n

David Lopez, a visitor from Wisconsin, contacted the commission after eating at the restaurant with several friends last October.<\/p>\n

He and his girlfriend knew something was wrong when a waiter told them that a serving of rice would cost them extra. They had noticed Asian customers munching on similar dishes served over a bed of rice.<\/p>\n

“Being Hispanic, we both like rice,” said 46-year-old Lopez. “We saw other customers getting a different menu. We were told we could order from it if we spoke Chinese.”<\/p>\n

The prices on that menu, written in Chinese, were an average of $1 cheaper per dish.<\/p>\n

“It was very distressful to go to a place in one of the most diverse cities in the world and be discriminated against,” Lopez said.<\/p>\n

Representatives for the restaurant have denied the existence of two different in-store menus.<\/p>\n

But Lopez, who has worked as a discrimination investigator in Wisconsin, took both menus with him. He took the menus and his concerns to the Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n

After an investigation, the commission determined there was probable cause that discrimination had taken place, and referred the case to the office of Administrative Trials and Hearings for a trial.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not news that Chinese restaurants everywhere have reserve suckier menus for gweilo. So it’s gratifying to learn that some are also charging such diners accordingly: The price you pay for your beef with string beans depends entirely on whether or not you are Chinese — at least according to the menus at one restaurant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}