George Leppla > wrote in
:

> FWIW... here in TX, most of the kitchen help and cooks in
> Chinese restaurants are Hispanic.... and in a lot of places,
> most of the customers are also Hispanic.
>
> Mexican people seem to love Chinese food. Very strange to
> hear an Asian hostess or waitress speaking Spanish.

Around here, Vietnamese families own Vietnamese restaurants, so
they hire Vietnamese. It would seem Thai restaurants hire Thais
(or maybe Cambodians).

The ones that are oddball are the take-out pizza places. Except
for ones attached to a well-known Italian restaurant, the bulk of
them are run by Lebanese.

Of course, Ottawa, being an embassy town, has been cosmopolitan
longer than most other cities, barring Montreal and Toronto.

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